Funny Notes from Collin...

I love my I-phone for many reasons, but jotting down notes quicker is a big favorite.

Here are some funny things, Collin has said lately:

When talking about Christmas and Jesus being born, he was WAY excited about the revelation that Jesus lived, "On OUR EARTH?!"

When I confirmed in the positive, his voice escalated even further with incredulity, "Jesus lived ON OUR STREET??!!!!"

Sorry son, no. But that would have been really cool.

Collin does NOT like saying prayers, so when he finally says one and makes it any different from the {typical}, we are pretty impressed.

On one Friday night, we were saying the prayer on the pizza right before Trav and I were leaving on a date. Knowing this, Collin prayed, "Bless Mommy and Daddy that they have fun on their vacation."

Did he know how right he was?

Driving in the car as a family, I was talking to Trav when I said, "stupid".

Right away, Collin piped up, scolding, "Mom, we never say STUPID or WIENER."

??????

Long pause.

Umm, "Collin, who taught you that?"

Collin: Thinking... "Umm, I don't know. I don't know who taught me wiener."

Side glance to Travis. I asked, "Do you know what a wiener is?"

Collin: "Umm, noooo. I don't know what a wiener is." Still pondering and in a wistful voice, "I've never SEEN any wieners."

Trav and I are muffling our cackles. It was too much. I will always laugh when I think about that conversation.

He often hears us use exclamations like "dang it". But clearly, he doesn't know what we are saying, just the context in which we use it. So now I smile when I hear him somewhere in the house, frustrated and yelling out, "DANE IT!"

Trying to remember what my ear muffs were called, he asked me where my ear hugs were.

One day, getting out of the car, he was really mad at me. Thinking of something really mean he could say, he fixed me with a glare and said with as much venom as he could muster, "I just wish you went to work."

Haha! I told him to be careful what he wished for. :)

When I substituted in nursery, I was wearing very high heels. I finally kicked them off for the last half hour and of course Collin noticed. So he asked me why I wasn't wearing my shoes. I told him they hurt my feet. Contemplating that for a few seconds, he suggested, "Were they on the wrong feet?"

We listen to some kids songs in the car and one is Hot Cross Buns. It goes, "Hot cross buns, hot cross buns. One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns. If you have no daughters, if you have no daughters, if you have no daughters, give them to your sons." And on and on.

We listen it to it often. 

Finally, one day, Collin sighed and said, "Mom, this is a sad song."

That puzzled me, so I asked him why. 

He looked out the window and simply said, "Cuz she has no daughters."

I thought about it and said, "Well, I don't have any daughters. Is that sad?"

He scrunched up his eyebrows and looked at me like I was stupid and said, "Yeah."

One day he told me he wanted to be a grown up. I told him if he was a grown up, then he'd need to get a job and move out and get his own house. Indignant, he said, "But you're a grown up, and you still live here!!!"