Life with the nearly five-year-old is providing an increasing number of interesting questions and lines that make me laugh out loud. Below is a sampler of recent gems that don’t fit into stand-alone stories:
Upon seeing a police officer speeding for no visible reason:
“Who pulls over the policeman?”
Upon my request that he use hand sanitizer before eating when we had been somewhere pretty dirty:
“Do antibodies eat germs?”
Cutting to the chase:
Simon: “Can we play baseball after dinner?”
Me: “Honey, you’re going out with Daddy and Uncle Dan for dinner, then when you come home it’s bath night.”
Simon: “The suggestion is no.”
And finally, a matter-of-fact statement to Matt. Perhaps, just perhaps, we (and when I say “we” I mean “Matt”) should not have allowed him to watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy:
“I have a good side and a bad side… like Gollum.”
Ahh, but even his bad side is endearing.