A Conversation With a Five Year Old

It went something like this:

Is that a real pineapple?
Yes.
We should have a pineapple tree.
That would be nice, but it gets too cold here, and not warm enough. That's why we should have a green house, so we can grow pineapples.
Well, we have a green door.

It's a start, right? Now we just need to paint the rest of our house green.

Cookie Monster

Awhile ago a friend watched my kids. When I went to pick them up she gave me a bag of chocolate chip cookies and said that my littlest spotted them and had been "asking" for them. She told him he could take some home. He was excited to hold the bag on the way home. When we got there I started making lunch and wasn't really paying close attention to the little guy who took his bag 'o cookies to the basement. When I noticed it had been quiet for a longer than usual I went looking. I found the cookie monster with three cookies sitting around him, one in his mouth, and a chocolate smile on his face. He also knows exactly where the cookie jar is and what's in it at my grandma's house. I think he really likes cookies.

Feature Presentation

The Feature Presentation in August Presents:
Pink (most likely).

Adding to the list of Things I've Learned

It's probably a good idea to tell the person you put a piece of chocolate on their pillow before they go to sleep. And it melts. And the person wonders what is all over their shoulder in the morning. Especially when the person goes to sleep after midnight because they came in from out of town very late. It's the thought that counts, right?

Coming August 2011

It's rough when your four year old becomes smarter than you are. Ours has now decided to become the energy czar of our house. If I leave a room and the light is not turned off (because I'm going right back, of course), she'll say, "Would you please go turn that light off for me?"

I can't really argue with her, but I wish this new zeal for energy conservation had come from something I had taught her rather than her listening to a commercial for the power company.

She doesn't seem to remember anything we tell her, let alone have it spur her to any kind of constructive action. Maybe we could get the power company to run a commercial telling kids to clean their rooms or eat their dinner without whining.

A few days ago I heard some rather loud noises coming from the playroom so I stuck my head in the door and asked what was happening. The answer I got left room for a myriad of responses...
"We're cutting people's heads off!" All I could come up with was "Oh". I suppose that's what you might get when you give your kids a play tool set for Christmas.