Little Thinkers Think Again

It's been a while since my last post, but hopefully I'm going to catch up over the next few days. It's just been so busy.....

Once again, in a continuing series of humorous or thought-provoking comments from our kids.

When the boys were in the hospitals recently (Noah having tubes in his ears, Colin's broken arm, Noah's chin), there were some amusing comments, mostly due to loopy medicine they were given:

• Colin, the day after getting the loopy medicine for the doctors to set his arm - "When I was in the hospital, my eyes were out of control and it was like I was in a dinosaur museum. Then I opened my eyes and it was like the doctors were in a cartoon show, and then they looked original again."
• Colin, after coming up from his loopy medicine. It was pretty late at this point, but the medicine hadn't quite worn off yet. "I'm ready to go to bed. I know when I see two mommies that I'm ready to go to bed."
• Colin, a few days after Noah was in the ER for the cut on his chin. We took the bandage off and Colin did not like it. "Mama, I want Noah's bandage back on. Please get it back on." Tammy asked him why and he said, "I'm afraid that I might catch it, like sneezes and coughs."
• Noah, after getting his loopy medicine prior to tubes being put in his ears. Noah looked at me and said, "Hi Colin". I said, "I'm not Colin, I'm Daddy." He gave me a strange, amused look and said, "Hello Nicky, Hello Nicky". (Nicky is Colin's friend)
  

Noah was tested a year or more ago due to a reaction to a cashew and it was determined he was allergic to nuts, specifically tree nuts like cashews, pecans, etc., but it also included to a lesser degree peanuts. While he was under for the tubes in his ears, we had them draw blood and perform another allergy test. We discovered he is no longer allergic to nuts, but they identified other allgeries, such as some trees, bermuda grass and cats. One day soon after we were talking with the boys about how Noah was no longer allgeric to nuts and started discussing the nuts he could now eat. Noah asked what else he was allergic to, and Tammy told him he was allergic to cats. With great concern in his voice, Noah said, "Mama, I don't want to eat cats because I love them!"

The other day, the boys spilled something and Colin told me about it. I asked him to show me where they had spilled it. He got up on his bed and jumped around and then stopped and said, "My research tells me that the mess is right here."

After a birthday party for his friend Emily, Colin asked Tammy if there would ever be a time when he wouldn't see Emily anymore. Tammy said that it was possible, for example if we ever moved. She told him that we don't plan to move, but that it was always a possibility. Colin said, "If we were married, we would see each other all the time."

On Colin's first day of First Grade last week, almost all of his friends from Kindergarten were in different classes, so there was definitely some uneasiness the day prior to school beginning. However, he had already met his teacher, so that was good. But on the first day, his teacher wasn't going to be there as she had a family emergency. So we took him into his classroom and I was talking to him a bit about having a great day and advising him that it would be a substitute. I thought maybe he would need some assurance that it was no big deal on the first day. Colin grabbed some crayons and started coloring a picture they had set out for all the students. He didn't even look at me and said, "Excuse me Daddy, I need to get busy." Maybe it was just Daddy that needed the reassuring....

Colin and Noah were playing some super hero game they made up. Instead of saying Red Alert, Noah was running around saying, "Red Alerp! Red Alerp!"

A few weeks ago, Noah was asking for some mosquitoes. I asked him what he meant and he said he wanted some mosquitoes to eat. I couldn't figure it out, so I asked him about the mosquitoes that fly and he said, "No, Daddy not the bug mosquitoes, the candy mosquitoes." We went to the pantry and he finally cleared it up when he pointed to the bag of Skittles.

Noah asked me, "Daddy, do worms have slides in their tummies?". Still not sure where that one came from.

One night, I was putting Noah down for bed and he told me, "Daddy sometimes I use my finger in my nose to check for boogers. I'm going to do it now."