It’s always the little things that I want to remember, like the way he looks when he first wakes up, how he eats his cereal, the way he swings his bat, the conversations we have (and just about every little thing about all of my kids). But these little things are the easiest to forget. You might be amused by them at the time. I may tell the funny story to my family or friends, but it fades… and they get older and there are so many things added that I want to remember. So I write them down and take lots of pictures to hang on to what I can.
Here are some of my favorites from the last month:
“Mistakes in Crayon”
As Bradley was getting dressed, out of the blue he says, “It’s okay if you make mis-snakes, I mean mistakes, Mom. Everybody makes mistakes,” he explains to me. “Sometimes I make mistakes in crayon.”
“Yeah. Everybody makes mistakes sometimes,” I agree.
“Yeah,” he says. “I make mis-snakes, I mean mistakes, in crayon at school sometimes, like when I do my ABC’s. Sometimes the teacher lets you start over. Sometimes she don’t. You never know what the teacher will say,” he tells me.
And I am not sure where all of this is coming from or why he’s talking about it now, while he’s deciding which pair of Lego Batman underwear to wear. But I go along with it. “Sometimes I make mistakes, too. But’s it’s important that we learn from our mistakes.”
“Lucky Number 2”
Bradley held up two fingers. “Mom, the number two must be lucky,” he said. “We have two eyes and two ears. We have two arms and two legs. And we have two parts to our butt so we can poop,” he says, laughing like he just figured out a silly secret.
Nice. Leave it to a boy to look at it in that perspective. I had to laugh, too.
“Veins”
Bradley sat at the table examining the blue lines in his hands and wrists.
“Mom, what if one of these vines break?”
“Vines?” I asked, puzzled.
“Yeah, these blue vines.”
I started to pay attention to see what he was talking about. “Oh, you mean veins.”
“Yeah. What do they do?”
“They help put blood through all of your body.”
“Oh,” he said. Obviously not what he expected.
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And if I could understand half of what Collin says, I’m sure I could have a whole book of crazy kid stories. And with Elsie and Mallie coming right up behind Collin, it will definitely be interesting.
I love to hear kid-isms. What are some of yours?
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Amanda St.Clair 