Make mine a double...

Yesterday's funny:

As we're waiting at my office for the tow truck to arrive, Elliot is climbing all over the cement planters in the courtyard.  I told him to be careful and his response:

"We have to be careful or we could hurt or head, or hurt our ankle, or pop our eyes out, or hurt our knee."

Geez, pop our eyes out?  Where does he get this stuff.

And tonight's funny in the bathtub:

"Mommy, don't worry about me, you worry about your self!"

This one has quite the attitude.

Sports Day at Camp

So we dress Elliot up this morning in his University of Texas jersey, and he shouts over and over, "I'm a team!"  So, this solves the mystery...there is an "I" in team, it's my son!

The moral of this story...

"Once upon a time there was a boy and his daddy and they needed to go potty.  And then there was a wolf..."

This is what Elliot took from Sam's story of "The boy who cried wolf" as it relates to Elliot asking to go to the potty in the restaurant when he did not need to go.

He retold this story to us as he was getting ready to go potty before his bath.

Bath time funny

As Sam is giving Elliot his bath tonight, the routine is always to fill up our bath cup and ask Elliot to look up and close his eyes before we pour water on his head.  With bath cup in hand, Elliot turns to Sam and says, "close your eyes."  Sam responds, "no buddy, you are not pouring water on daddy's head."  Elliot's cute response was, " don't worry daddy, it'll be real quick."  Ha, a taste of our own medicine!

Tiny Dancer

So tonight we took Elliot to services and he was awesome! So well behaved, we even got a ton of compliments about how well behaved be was.  After services we were hanging out and he asked to dance with me.  

Mom: "Are you dancing with me?"

Elliot: "Yes mommy, I'm a ballerina.  What does a ballerina say?"

Mom: "ballerinas don't really say anything"

Elliot: "They just dance."

I'm so glad my son is open to being anything in the world and that Sam and I will support anything, even being a ballerina!

Banasticks!

That's right, banasticks!  Any idea what that means?  Okay, I'll put it in a sentence to give some context clues.

"At school today, I played banasticks.  I went in a tunnel."

Still no clue?  Allow me to put in my response for further clarification.

"Buddy, did you do somersaults and walk on the balance beam?"

"Yes, I played banasticks."

If I hadn't know that they were doing gymnastics at camp today, I would be clueless.  So, where's the funny part in this?

He then followed it up with, "Daddy, did you play banasticks at work today? No?  Then ask me about playing banasticks."  This was followed by several somersaults around our bedroom floor.

He's trying so hard to be polite and ask about what other people do during the day.  He asked me how my day was, then proceeded to tell me how he gave hugs and kisses to a classmate.  My first thought was, "did he do something to hurt her and was apologizing?" (He says no) I need to focus on the fact that my kid is a loving boy instead of a boy that really knows how to apologize!

Religious Funnies

As we're driving home from Elliot's school today, we were listening to a CD of Texas musicians and "I'll fly away" came on.  Elliot was singing and it said the word, "hallelujah" and he said, "what's that word?"  I repeated it to him and his response was, "who's Lula? Where is she?"  I told him that hallelujah wasn't a girl, and he quickly responded, "Is Lula a boy?"

Other religious funny: for months he referred to every large building as a "gynagogue" instead of a synagogue.