DD talks about someone eating her ice cream in her dream too! She doesn't know who it is yet but maybe she'll find out someday that it is indeed Johnny.

Aw!

I can't speak to that particular day as I stayed back, but I do know about the next day. He played "soccer" with a sweet little 4 year old boy. I use quotes because he grew indifferent mid-play once he was satisfied he knew what he was doing, went limp like a rag doll, flopping down on the ground, requiring me to pick him up and carry him to the ball to keep his interest up. That is SOOO DS...interest is maintained until he perceives "mastery", then it's onto the next great thing. (As an aside, I was a bit shocked to see his ball handling was better than a 4yo's.)

He shared his favorite purple shovel with an older girl voluntarily, "because she looked like she needed it more."

Glad you like it! My boy makes me chuckle, too...little character! Today he had me giggling when he called a female mannequin a wo-mannequin...the little feminist.

We also say, "I love you to infinity," though DS hasn't retorted with any counter-cosmological offers...

I think I just found a cheaper solution to my child's anxieties than therapy (not really but it's working for the moment)

BUBBLE WRAP!!!

She just told me, "It's hard to be angry at stuff when you are popping bubble wrap."

A funny conversation with ds 3.5 tonight at dinner.
L: When does my school end?
Me: 2 weeks.
L: So, when I go back to school, it'll be a new school for Kindergarten?
Me: no,you have one more year in preschool first- pre-k.
L: can't I skip to K? (Laughing)

Funny thing is I think he's only half laughing/ half serious.
I think things are going to get real interesting- round 2

Yeah it's cute and funny the first time. Not so much now that he wants to try the same experiment. With a tub full of ICE CUBES.

I said no. He asked if we could do it in summer then so I won't get as cold... (it's heading to winter here)

One of the oddest conversations just happened with my DD9. She is packing for a weekend trip with her aunt and looking for a snack at the same time and blurts out, "I think it's odd that we start counting at one instead of zero. Why is that?"

This lead to a discussion about what zero is and isn't and how it can't be positive or negative but is also both at the same time. Which leads to a discussion about freezing points are also melting points and how absolutes are not really absolutes.

My husband said she didn't really understand it but when I talked to her again she explained it back to me in her own words and said, "It makes perfect sense to me."

This coming from a child who is working on the "colors" in between black and white in her concrete thinking. Score one for the parent team! We may have just made a connection.

DD6 insisted on having Hamlet read to her recently (I still don't know what triggered that one). When Voltemand entered she started giggling. Because his name was so similar to HP's Voldemort...

I can't wait for the first grade one 'make a connection' assignment!

CoastalMom that is such a great connection You should try the Shakespeare association for "Bottom" and see what happens

Every other 5 year old (and most adults) that we know hears Bottom and thinks "Minions".

My 5 year old hears it and laughs - because it's like Bottom in Midsummer's night dream. And apparently there is nothing funnier than a guy with a donkey's head stuck on his er... head...

My DD looked up the Venn Diagram distinguishing Nerds, Geeks, Dorks, and Dweebs to determine she is a Geek and now insists that "Geek" be put on the back of her sport jersey as her nickname.