Dont Forget ...

Okay, for the sake of getting it in "print" I have to share a couple of little giggles we have had the past week or so ...

Animal Sounds:

We were riding the car the other day when Ty asked if they could listen "kid music" (I was listening to the radio). I popped in one of their CD's.

One of the songs had a narrator who said, "Every animal makes different sounds, see if you can tell me which animal sound I am making!"

Ty, very passionately stated. "This CD is not true."

"It isnt?" I asked, a bit surprised. "In what way?"

That guy said that all animals make different sounds, but the lion, tiger AND the jaguar say 'roar!' "

I am just so glad he is so alert to things around him that arent true :)

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"I am Moses!"

Canon has been fascinated by bible characters lately. But, he gets stuck on certain ones. His first bible character crush was Moses. Every character in the bible story book who had a beard was Moses. He also asked to read "moseth!" every time he was given a choice :)

These past couple of weeks he has shifted his passion to Joshua. Knowing that VBS was Joshua- focused this year, the weeks leading up to it we talked alot about him. We talked about the wall, mostly. So, when we got VBS and they actually acted out the marching, horns, yelling, wall-falling ....oh, there arent words. My kids were amazed.

Canon has been playing "Joshua" and the wall ever since. He gets out the wooden block town that we have, lines them up and "blows" his horn and shouts loudly then knocks it all down dramatically. He also likes to shout "I AM JOSHUA" as he does it.

Ty, always the teacher (poor kid, he comes by it honestly :) gently reminded him that Joshua did not knock the wall down, GOD did. :)

Anyways, last week when mommy was a little stressed talking to the billing lady at the orthopaedics doctor the other day (because she KNOWS how much arm #2 is gonna cost :) I handed Canon the closest book and asked him to sit down quietly while mommy talks to the nice lady. It happened to be a bible story book (at the ortho office, I think it was one of those Gideon people bring ..the illustrations were like from 1960), which Canon seemed to understand. He was sitting there while I was forking over the dough, then he yelled at the top of his lungs, "I AM MOSES!"

I think it great he feels so empowered by the bible boys :)

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Doesnt Make Sense

As school time is approaching, we are planning our own school room and lessons. Joey and Luke, some of his other little friends are heading back the school he went to last year in a week or so.

I asked him if he was sad he wasnt going back with them (he has been all excited about staying home). He said a very simple, "nope."

"Why?" I mean, I was glad that I wasnt causing the kid emotional problems but I was a little surprised with how sure he was.

Without a thought, he said, "Well, I dont like their rules."

"What rules?" ...uh oh, not good.

"They wont let Joey and I be in the same centers, or stand in line together. They dont let us play together ..and it does not make sense!"

Makes perfect sense to me, buddy :)

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Canon has a favorite word. I base that on the fact that it is part of very sentence that he says, and as his vocabulary is expanding this word is used often more than once in a single sentence.

He cracks us up regularly because he always sounds like he is trying to defend everything he says ...his favorite word is "because"

Here is how he uses it, "because I need a snack, mommy."

"Because, Ty hit me because I hit Ty."

"Because, I dont want to take a nap!"

"Can I paint, because I want to paint ..please?"

Well, we love you in part because you are so dang cute little "C-dawg!" ;)