Move!

Cannon is saying more and more words lately, and he has a few phrases down, too.  Like, "I don't want it," "I did it!" and "There it is!"

One of his favorite words right now is "move!"  Josh and I will be sitting on the couch while Cannon is playing at the train table (which is acting as a coffee table right now, unfortunately).  He walks around it, and if our legs are in his way, he says, "Move!"

I tell him, "Cannon, the polite thing to say is 'excuse me,' not 'move.'"  Pretty much every day for the last couple of months, we've been having this exchange.  He'll say "move!" and I'll explain that instead, we should say "excuse me."

I think I must have confused him a little, because now when Cannon burps, he says, "Move!"

Olivia

Some of you have heard this story before, but I wanted to write about it anyway.  I just love it.

As you know, Bennett goes to the Montessori school here.  He doesn't like to talk to me much about what he does at school for some reason, but he'll talk to me about his friends sometimes.  He used to come home talking about Landon and Colton all the time.  Those were his buds.  Some days they were his friends, some days they weren't, but it was always Landon and Colton.

Over the last couple of months it has changed to Olivia.  No more Landon and Colton.  It was Olivia this, Olivia that.  Olivia was his new best bud.  Every day, he was coming home talking to me about what he and Olivia did, or how he was going to invite her to his next birthday party.

A few weeks ago, I went to Montessori to meet with Bennett's teacher for a conference.  When I got there, Bennett was finishing up his lunch at a table by himself.  I joined him while I waited for his teacher.

We were talking when the door to the playground opened, and in walked three girls.  A cute little blonde headed girl, who looked to be about 5, lead the pack.  Bennett said, "Look, Mama!  It's Olivia!"  The girls walked across the room towards us.  It was like a scene out of a movie, with Olivia as the head of the group and her two sidekicks following close behind.

As they neared us, Bennett said, "Olivia!  Olivia!  Hi Olivia!"  Olivia looked at us and said, "Hi Bennett" as she and her crew passed by.  Bennett turned back around in his chair and said to me, "Mama!  Olivia knows my name!"

Priceless.

A Couple of Bennett Funnies

My goodness, do I have other things I need to be doing right now.  But I HAVE to make myself sit down and write some of this stuff down.  I really, really want to post about our trip to Winston-Salem after Thanksgiving, but I really don't have the time to do that tonight.  I have cakes to make for this weekend!

But I have to share a couple of Bennett funnies.  And these may not come across as funny here as they do coming out of his little mouth, with his little inflections.  But I'll share anyway.

Bennett's class has apparently been singing The Hokey Pokey lately.  He was singing it last night, and I was helping him remember what body parts to 'put in' and 'put out.'  We did his right arm, his left arm, his right leg, his left leg, his head... and with each body part he got more and more tickled.  After his head, he said, "You put your bottom in, you put your bottom out, you put your bottom in and you shake it all about..." and he shook his little rear at me.  I kind of giggled with him, and then he started a new line.  "You put your tee-tee in, you put your tee-tee out..." I immediately said, "No, no, no Bennett.  You don't talk about your private parts like that."

His response:  "But Mama, I wasn't talking about my private parts, I was singing about them."

His class has also obviously been singing Christmas songs.  He's been singing Jingle Bells and Santa  Claus is Coming to Town for the past week.  Tonight he was singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town and said, "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why..." and then said, "Daddy, this is how we pout" and made a super pouty face and crossed his arms in front of him.  Josh said, "Yep, that's how you pout.  But it's not good to pout, is it Bennett?"  Bennett said, "No sir."  And then in a very chipper voice added, "But I don't pout ... I just cry!"

Stinker.

No, he hasn't gotten glasses.  Pop loaned them to him to accompany the Steve Urkel pajama pants he had going on.

He's Gonna Get Me in Trouble

Monday, the Northwest Exterminating guy came for our quarterly pest control.  It had been a while since they had come inside to spray, so I asked that he service the inside of the house.  He came in and was immediately greeted by Bennett (of course). 

Bennett said, "What's your name?"  The guy said, "Kevin."  Bennett tried to follow him around the house carrying on the conversation, but I made him come into the living room until he was finished.

Later, Mama came by and I mentioned that the Northwest guy had been here.  Bennett said, "His name is Kevin.  He comes to our house all the time."

Oh my.  Not only do I have to worry about him repeating things that we wouldn't necessarily want repeated, but apparently I have to worry about him coming up with things like that all on his own!

Mama and I laughed, and she said, "That could be taken more than one way..."  I thought about it for a minute and agreed.  I said, "I don't know which is worse!"

Interesting to Bennett

I've posted before about how Bennett loves to take pictures.  That interest has not faded.  He picks up the camera any chance he gets and starts snapping away.  Well, the other day, Josh and I were in the office talking to each other while Bennett was taking pictures.  He just points the camera in a general direction and snaps a shot. 

Josh said, "Hey Bennett, why don't you try taking pictures of things that are interesting to you rather than just a whole room?"  He took a picture of this picture frame to give Bennett an example of taking up-close shots of interesting things.

 Then it was Bennett's turn.

Interesting.

A Bennett Funny

I just got home from getting Bennett from Montessori.  As we pulled into the driveway, Bennett asked who was going to be at his house today.  He's used to either Grandmama or Poppa or Gigi and Pop being at our house lately.  My parents were there a lot this past week helping us get ready for the tour of homes that was this past weekend, and Josh's parents kept the boys for us over the weekend during the tour and then spent the night with us Saturday night. 

So he wanted to know who was going to be at his house today.  I said, "Nobody's going to be at our house today, bud.  Just us."  He got quiet and didn't say anything else.  We got out of the car and started walking up the back steps.  Bennett turned and saw a guy on Greg's back porch next door.  He excitedly pointed to the guy and exclaimed, "There he is, Mama!"  I said, "There who is?"  He said, "Justus!"