"Nana, you don't look like yourself today."
"What's different about me?"
"I think you're starting to look like Poppop"
(Oh great, I think.) "How do I look like Poppop?'
"Mostly at your feet."
"Nana, what did your son play with when he was four?'
"My son? You mean your Daddy."
"No, back when he was your son and not my Daddy. What did he play with then?"
"I don't know if you realize this, but I really do think I am an animal sometimes. I worry about it and I wish someone would check to see if I got animal batteries by mistake?
"Is there anything more beautiful than a cheetah. I know lots of people like leopards or tigers but a cheetah makes you want to pet him."
I'm glad you're writing these things down. I wish I'd done the same. My kids said some hilarious, poignant, truthful, miraculous things, but most are lost to the sands of time because I didn't jot them down the moment they said them.
ReplyDeleteKids say the darnedest things...
ReplyDeletewait, someone else said that, didn't they?
How old? I'll guess three.
ReplyDeleteFour. He was funnier at three but more profound at four.
ReplyDelete*snork* at 'animal batteries'
ReplyDeleteFour is a great age. So is three, for that matter.
Jeff M.
Grandkids are the best!
ReplyDeleteKids are so wonderful. Exhausting but wonderful.
ReplyDeleteDenise and I just enjoyed big chuckles over this post. He is such a clever young man. Keep posting these, Patti.
ReplyDeleteI don't know; would it reassure Kevin or worry him more to know that he *is* an animal? (As are we all.)
ReplyDeletePretty great observations.
LOL
ReplyDeleteThree years: wonderful
Four years: wonderful
And once they get through the teenage years: wonderful again :)
So smart of you to write down his words. He sounds like a boy who does a lot of thinking. Just wonderful.
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