I think all of you have met Junior Mint. He's a delicious little boy and I love him. And he talks all the time. I have no idea where that quality came from. Out of so much talking, there are bound to be funny sayings.
Two things he said yesterday are as follows:
We were at the grocery store in the cereal aisle. Always hoping to be the one who chooses the cereal, Junior Mint said, "I want to buy Whities."
"What?!" we said.
He pointed at a box on a shelf and then I corrected him, "No, honey, those are Wheaties."
It did seem pretty funny to us, though, especially with a large African American pro basketball player across the front of the box. (Go Celtics!)
As we sat and ate dinner last night, Junior Mint said suddenly, "I'm isolated."
I looked at my husband. He looked at me. "No, you're not," he said.
Thoughts raced through my mind.... Did someone at soccer practice say something about his homeschooling? Does he spend too much time alone? He goes to church and plays soccer and plays with different friends in the afternoons. Does time spent with me count as isolation? Should we be doing more to cultivate outside friendships?
It was just a few seconds before I turned to Junior Mint and said, "What do you mean?"
His response?
"I'm freezing!!"
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Cute! Sounds like he is a pretty smart kid for his age. I know it's hard to wonder where they come up with things, especially people like us, that have a good imagination.
Kids say the darndest things... like the kid who came home and asked, "Mom, what is sex?" So she figured he was old enough to understand, so she explained it, and after fifteen minutes said, "does that answer your question?" and he said, "ummm, not really. At school today we were filling out a form, and it had this check box that said "sex"...
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