The Darndest Things

I asked Eddie to clean up a mess he had made in his room, but he wandered out too soon to have done it and started playing. "Hey Eddie," I said. "Did you clean your room?"  "Not really," he said.

When Eddie wants to be free of parental interference, he says "No coming!" This is almost always a sign that we need to come. The other morning, he said "No coming!" I peeked around the corner and saw him in the glider chair. "Why not?" I asked. When he saw that I'd seen him, he grinned and said "Cookies!" The rascal had grabbed a pack of cookies out of the kitchen and was trying to figure out how to open it!

Today, we went for a walk and Eddie found some hair bands on the ground, which he decided to bring home. After we got back, he wanted to put them in his hair, but it wasn't long enough. He thought about it. "If my hair grows bigger and bigger, then I become a girl?"

We haven't really taught Eddie about the days of the week (we don't have a very rigorous schedule ourselves.) But he goes out to get the paper with me every day, and this morning when he saw it, he said "Paper big. It's Sunday? Big funnies?"