Kid Sayings

My three-year-old son cracks me up. He is at the age where imagination controls everything. He can dream up the most incredible things, turning his coat into a superhero cape and a coloring page into a rolled up “light saber.” On the way home from day care, he’ll chatter on about his friends, periodically mixing in his own stories which may or may not be true. (killer bugs who tried to eat his friend Seth???) I can tell already he’s the son of a fiction writer. Sigh.

I ask him what he wants for breakfast and he replies, “Umm…probably just M&Ms.” When I explain that this is not a breakfast option (okay, so who WOULDN’T want M&Ms for breakfast), he says, “Okay. I’ll just have cookies then.” I love the matter-of-fact attitude.

What I love most of all is watching him with his sister when they don’t realize I’m there. He’ll kick back on the floor of his room, his feet propped against the bed, with a book in his hands. His sister will crawl over to see what he’s doing, and then she’ll get a book of her own to read, right next to him. Hers, of course, is the engrossing title “Yellow” which has a thought-provoking plot about ducks and lemons. His favorite titles range from “Stellaluna” to “One Dark Night.”

What favorite children’s books did you grow up with?

Historical trivia (yes, I forgot yesterday’s!!)–The vacuum cleaner or “hoover” was invented in 1899. The early models were huge and drawn by horses, like fire engines. If you wanted your house vacuumed, you ordered the cleaner, and the driver stopped the horses outside your door. The hoses were passed into the house through the windows, and the operators attached nozzles to the tubes to vacuum out the dirt.