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Silas: "W(all) w(all) w(all) w(all) w(all) w(all) done."
Mommy: "Silas, I think we need to start saying what Luke says when he wants to get down from the table: 'May I be excused, please?'"
Silas: "'scuse pease."
Mommy: "Okay, you can get down."
Luke: "Um, I think he said, 'Juice, please'."
"Silas, do you want to ride plasmacars with me? There's one over here...follow my sparkles!"
Luke: "Mommy, can we watch the rest of Cars?"
Mommy: "I don't see why not."
Luke: "Mommy...is that a yes or a no?"
Luke: "Bye, Daddy!"
Daddy: "Bye, Luke!"
Luke: "I love you!"
Daddy: "I love you, too!"
Luke: "I love you 3...4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, go!"
Daddy {pointing to a mountaintop airplane caution light}: "On and off...on and off...what's that light doing up there?"
Luke: "It's saying, 'Don't run into me! Because this is a special light, and I'd like to keep it.'"
Mommy: "Hi, Luke! What did you do at school today?"
Luke: "There was a huge wife*!"
* Spring Fling Art Day with lots of parents and kids
Luke {pointing to a group of people hanging out near the tennis courts}: "That is a humongous wife!"
Daddy: "What's a wife?"
Luke: "It's a whole, whole lot of people standing together and talking."
Luke: "Mommy! I know something!"
Mommy: "What?"
Luke: "..."
Luke: "It came in my mind, but it went away...will it come back?"
Another billboard special...
Daddy: "Luke, is that your car up there?"
Luke: "No, God made it and put it up there. He put that car up there to show us he loves us."
There's this billboard off of I-75 near our house that looks like an actual car is sitting on top of it, so you can imagine what kinds of conversations it has stirred up...
Daddy: "Luke, who put their car up there? They're not supposed to leave it up there..."
Luke: "It's up there to make it special."
"Oh, no! I can't do a cartwheel anymore. I ran out of batteries. My feet don't work anymore!"
Luke: "Hey, Mommy! We need to get some more of these trucks."
Mommy: "More? Why?"
Luke {pointing to a promotional layout from his Lego set}: "Because it says here that we need to get more."
Ah, marketing...
Luke: "I just saw a tent!"
Daddy: "A tent?"
Luke: "Yes, 2 tents!"
Daddy: "Really?"
Luke: "Yes! We're in America!"
Luke: "Let's talk about all the new places...the Playroom, Kangaroo Bob's, Imagine It, American Adventures..."
Mommy: "What are the old places?"
Luke: "The gas station, the bookstore, the comic book store, another comic book store..."
"Now everybody can do it??"
- Luke watching the highlight reel full of slam-dunks after the GA Tech basketball game (vs. Boston College)
"Neat. Car."
- his favorite phrase of the moment. Pertains to either random cars pointed out on the road or to his own set of matchbox cars when they do something "neat", such as sit on top of one another.
This latest video is short and sweet, but it sums up a pretty fascinating bit of sibling behavior. In Silas's quest to become just like Luke, he's accidentally learning wacky things that his parents would never have thought to push. In fact, seeing Silas attempt to potty train himself, try to sing along with the alphabet song, and various other "big boy" [i.e. LUKE!] things has us rethinking our future educational strategy. Ultimately, we're thinking of saving money by keeping Silas home from school forever and just having him hang out with Luke when he gets home.
Anyway, about a month ago, Silas started doing this:
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While the ease and ubiquity of YouTube is such that I can't really NOT go that route now, the low quality of the video sears my eyeballs. Here's the old-school 1Mb Quicktime version to make me feel better.]
"Uh oh...sock broken!"
(his sock was coming off)
"When I get bigger and turn into a daddy, I'll be able to make dinner, and take a shower, and put a belt on all by myself. And put my clothes on - all of them! - and button and snap."