Playing Outside

At the Zoo

Ready for school!

Pajama-party day coincided with show-n-share day for the letter "u". Those are Samuel's underwater goggles...

Car Junk

Daddy [proud of having cleaned out his car]: "Remember all that junk that was in my car?"

S: "Where did it all go?"

Daddy: "I got rid of it."

S [pointing to some sand and crumbs in car seat]: "What about that junk?"

Daddy: "I didn't CLEAN my car, I just...picked it up."

S [very impressed]: "With WHAT?"

Sugar Plums

Just now, apropos of nothing:

Samuel: "Sugar plums are like this." [makes circle with thumb and forefinger]
Daddy: "Oh, OK."
Samuel: "When I was sleeping, before Christmas, sugar plums jumped in my head."

Spontaneous Lorax

Samuel started reciting The Lorax after I buckled him into his seat on our way to school today, and I managed to record him/us with my phone. Here it is.

Oh -- and also from this morning, as Samuel was climbing onto the bathroom counter to brush his teeth -- "I'm tall, like a POTATO! No, I'm tall like a BOWLING BALL!"

Peter Gunn Handy

We've been listening to Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn lately while driving our car; Samuel likes it a lot and requests it regularly. Suddenly, after about a week, he abruptly began calling it "Peter Gunn Handy." If we called it "Peter Gunn," he would correct us: "NO! It's 'Peter Gunn Handy.'"

That was a couple weeks ago. We've explained a few times that actually, it's just "Peter Gunn," and we've asked why he calls it "Peter Gunn Handy." He's usually answered with a very helpful "because I like to."

Last night, when we got in the car to go to our weekly small group, Samuel requested Peter Gunn and then proceeded voluntarily to tell a story that went something like this:

One time when I was going to school, Daddy was saying he didn't have any Peter Gunn Handy.

...and he's right. Since he reminded me, I distinctly remember him requesting Peter Gunn when I was driving him to school one morning two or three weeks ago. But the CD with Peter Gunn on it is in Jenn's car, so I replied at the time that I didn't have Peter Gunn handy.

Now we know.