Random favorites this week:
"Onnor's workin'?" Sawyer, our little OCD boy, has lately been allowed unsupervised access into the office. He simply organizes markers back and forth and rarely touches anything he's not supposed to, though sometimes the fax machine is a bit too tempting and he gets banished. The other boys, not sure why Sawyer gets such good privileges, usually like to hang at the gates and try to get in too. Connor associates workin' with the office, because that's what we tell him Mommy or Daddy is doing when we're in there and kids are not allowed. Unfortunately for the other two, they like to pull caps off markers and write on things, so access is denied! Even this cute phrase from Connor doesn't work.
"Onnor no tired! Onnor playin'!" This is my standard response every day at nap time, even if he's clearly tired and laying on the couch half asleep.
"Grandma be back!" He said this one to me a lot the first few days after we returned from the lake. Clearly Grandma is a better playmate than Mommy!
"Where's Onnor's shoes?" He has learned to associate shoes with outside and a little freedom. He no longer likes to take stroller rides without them, because he understands he will not be allowed to get down and walk around. And any time Mommy goes outside, even to get the mail, he wants his shoes so he can go too!
"Hep!" (translated, "Help!" with a silent "l"). This one can only amuse those other parents who've watched the Thomas episode where one of the trains is "bad" by always asking for "help!" because he's too lazy to do the jobs that Sir Toppemhat has assigned (and yes, I do know that it's scary that I know that many details and that I KNOW this is what Connor is emulating). The inflection of his voice is dead on, and he's usually asking for help on something that he can clearly do himself - like getting up out of the floor or simply walking down the stairs, something he mastered long ago.
"No, No (insert brother's name here)!" Connor loves to tell people what to do. He wants to be the Mommy, apparently. This morning, it was "No, No Xander! Leave Saw's blocks alone!" which might have been something I was telling Connor, because both he and Xander love to mess with Sawyer's neatly arranged building blocks and make him scream in anger and frustration. I think the phrase is "the pot calling the kettle black" or something to that effect?
And perhaps my favorite (she says sarcastically):
"In a minute . . . " Of course, he learned this from his mother as well. When he wants me to do something like play cars and I'm in the middle of something else like changing a baby's diaper, I usually say it to him. But he's gotten quite adept at using it himself when he doesn't want to stop what he's doing and do what he's being asked (or told) to do. For example, Mommy says "Come on Connor, time to go night-night." And then he replies, "In a minute . . . " and quickly takes his toys as far away from me as he possibly can. Good fun, as always.
