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Kid Sayings – #2,347
I am very, VERY behind on this.
- When a show they are watching is split into 2 parts – “Dad, it comes with two”
- “Oh, you baby you old people” or “Oh, you baby you young people?” (if you know us, you’ll get a laugh out of this :))
Love these two…so so so very much!
More things Lincoln Says – Fall 2020 Edition
“Swimming contest” = what he calls his two week long summer swimming class
“Buckle seat” = when he wants his car seat buckled.
”Diving bell” = diving board
“Walking side” = sidewalk (my current favorite)
The Boy
Do you ever pick up something that your kid does that you maybe should have noticed but never did? Nothing big but just a small thing that makes a lot of other things make sense?
We had Krispy Kreme this week to “celebrate” (or mourn) the end of summer. My son had to get a fork to eat his donut. He’s eaten it by hands before. I’m sure of it. But today, he HAD to have a fork. Like he wouldn’t eat it without it.
I don’t consider him a neat freak. If you saw his room, you’d know the opposite is 100% true. He plays in the sand and in the yard all the time. He eats pizza and chicken nuggets by hand (like a good ole American boy). But with his food, he does not like to be STICKY. He ate one in the car yesterday on the way home but that may have been just from sheer hunger and boredom. And he whined about his hands being dirty the whole drive home when he was done. But at home, where he KNEW he had stuff to prevent stickiness…yep.
So I’ll be keeping some wipes on hand in my car from now on.
From a 3 year old – pretty easy
My son said this today on our way back from breakfast. It brought a few tears to my eyes. So simple, so easy and could fix so much…
“We have to check on our Mom and Dad. We have to take care of our friends”
If he gets that, why can’t some people?
Clean Shaven
Lincoln definitely has a thing with touch. He has to touch every surface he walks by and he’ll sometimes pet me and Becky.
He has been a bit of a demon about going to sleep at bedtime so one night, instead of sending him back to bed for the 14th time, I let him watch me shave. He was full of questions and just chatting away.
A few days later, while we were reading a book, my face grazed up against his. The stubble must have felt kinda neat because he just started starting in my eyes and rubbing my face. Over and over and saying “Daddy, you sooo smooth” (you have to imagine it in his voice).
It’s just the cutest thing…and it means so much to me because of this story….
My Dad was not around when I was supposed to learn how to shave. I hadn’t yet met the friends whose Dad’s would become surrogates to me and help make me into who I am today. It was mostly just me, my sister and my Mom.
Freshman year of high school was tough. I went to Germantown schools all of my life but high school brought together kids from different middle schools. The social statuses of kids with fancy houses and those with less fancy houses were starting. And because we lived out of district, I could no longer ride the bus.
Around this time, i started to grow facial hair. Teenage boys think their facial hair is cool. No matter how awful it looks. Peach fuzz that doesn’t quite grow in right or in full.
I…..had my first hairs grown on my cheeks. Big curly hairs on my cheek. I had a littttle goatee (that I was super proud of) And then whiskers.
Looking back at pictures makes me almost shudder. A Dad would have told me gently to cut it off. Or how to shave. I don’t remember anyone making fun of me for it. My Mom (or Grand-dad or Uncle) probably told me something in such a way that I got a razor and cut it. But it’s one of the many things about not having a main male figure during those last formative years that I think define so much of the younger generation.
But it will not affect my son…
More Lincoln Sayings…
1)
Sometimes, Lincoln sounds like a kid whose learning how to speak English. One of my favorite recent things – he repeats words in sentences.
Example. Daddy, I accidentally did XYZ on accident
But even better is when he betrays himself.
Example: Daddy, I accidentally did XYZ on purpose.
Almost hard to get mad at….almost 🙂
2)
He still gets the meaning of certain phrases backwards. He asks for the car window to be rolled up (when he really wants it down)
He also uses “un” in the wrong setting. he wants to play unfreeze tag. If he wants a show restarted after taking a break, he’ll ask for it to be unpaused. Every dang time. Cracks us all up and just adds to this little dude’s charm.
Lincoln Sayings (#3,402 and counting)
What’s most fascinating about this kid is that he has a great vocabulary but still sounds like a little kid. He pulled out this gem today while giving us all hugs at dinner time.
“I love you with all the pieces”.
<3
“Just the Two of Us”
This is mine and Lincoln’s current bedtime jam. In the most softest of voices (and when he doesn’t want to go to bed when I want him to), he’ll mumble “Can you play ‘Just the Two of Us?’. How can I resist this?
It’s the only song in my Will Smith category so it will play over and over again. BUT close to the end of the first play, Lincoln will look up at me with these big eyes and just smile. And then he’ll immediately tell me that the song is over and climb into his bed.
It’s one of my very favorite things and something I want to always remember from this period of time.
Speaks for itself…
I’m not sure any picture more clearly shows how they are right now. Love…but all up in each other’s grill. 3 1/2 and 5/12…
