Logan-Speak

I am a busy hard worker man. (3/31/09)

Bye, Uncle Rich! Have a later! (3/29/09)

I drew a picture of Matthew. It is scary! (3/28/09)

James: Logan, what did you get after your haircut?
Logan: I got a popper (lollipop) which was not good for me. (3/13/09)

Logan, with a blanket on his head: I am a scary princess! (3/13/09)

Logan, thumbing through the novel My Antonia: This is a book about a man's breakfast.
Melissa: What did he eat for breakfast?
Logan: Lunch. (3/10/09)

Melissa catches sight of a coyote standing in a field. James pulls the van to the curb so that the kids can see.
Melissa: I'm pointing out a coyote to you.
Logan: Don't point it out! It's a nice coyote! (3/8/09)

Logan, calling back to Evan and Matthew sitting behind him in the van: "Are you okay? Are you comfortable?" (2/15/09)

Evan, watching Logan scrape his face with a Lego block: What are you doing, Logan?
Logan: I'm shaving. (2/5/09)

Logan, lying down on the floor mat at the front door: I'm going to lie down for a libble-it. This is a reason for a nap.
Melissa: Do you want to take a nap in your bed?
Logan: No, this is a reason for a nap. [Loose Translation: This is instead of a nap.] (1/31/09)

libble-it = "little bit"

Logan: This is mines!
Melissa: Yes it is.
Logan: Don't say that!
Melissa: Logan, I was agreeing with you.
Logan: It is not green! (1/10/09)

Olivia (2 yrs. old) did talk to me. She didn't listen to me, but she did talk to me. (12/29/08)

Logan: Mommy’s fat leg!
Melissa: Logan, don’t say that. Call it a skinny leg”
Logan: No! I can’t say that! (12/08)

Logan: Matthew, stop laughing! I telled you to not.
Melissa: Logan, why don't you laugh with him.
Logan: I'm too tired to laugh. (12/21/08)

Gazing into my eyes: I see Logan in your eyes! (12/16/08)

One-ee-and-a-two-ee-and-a! One-ee-and-a-two-ee-and-a! (12/3/08)

Wadding up a a dish towel and cradling it in his arms: Hi Molly! How are you, Molly? [Molly is my cousin's baby.] (12/2/08)

I want to go straight to bed. (11/16/08)

Logan, looking at a picture of horses: Horses do not have tails.
Melissa: Yes, horses have tails. See the tail behind the horse in this picture?
Logan: That is not a tail.
Melissa: What is it?
Logan: Feathers (11/9/08)

Melissa to Sophie: Play your review piece, "Go Tell Aunt Rhody."
Logan: I want to talk to Aunt Rhody! I want to talk to Aunt Rhody! (11/6/08)

Believe It or Not

Logan stayed home with James on Saturday morning when I took the older kids to piano lessons. When we arrived back at home after the lessons, James had a story to tell.

You know how Logan calls apple cider "apple spider"'? Well, I gave him some applesauce to eat and went upstairs to do something.

He started shrieking, "Daddy! Come here! There's a spider on my appleboss!"

I went downstairs, thinking that he was just making something up to get my attention, but when I looked at his applesauce bowl, sure enough! There was a large spider perched on the rim!

There is such a thing as an apple spider!

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Yesterday, Logan informed me, "I did see a shark! It was swimming in a swimming pool! It was taking a bath!"

"Where did you see the shark?" I asked.

"I did see the shark at the creek! It was swimming in a swimming pool! A lion did swallow it! He did eat it all up!"

And later...

"I did see a catfish! It was on the grass! A dog ATE the catfish!"

Logan-Speak

Clearing out my sidebar to make room for yet more two-year old hilarity...

I am not a person. We are not people. I am Logan. (10/29/08)

In reference to the Ergo Carrier: It hold ups me. (10/29/08)

In response to my teasing: Mommy is just crazy! (10/14/08)

I want some apple spider. (10/11/08)

I want to go at the store and buy some money. (10/11/08)

Melissa attempts to sing to Logan to entertain him in the van on the cross-country trip. During all but two songs, Logan repeatedly shouts: That is not a song! (9/24/08)

Melissa to Logan: What did the clown's hair look like? Was it curly?
Logan, looking at the curly-headed member of our family: Uh huh. Evan is a clown. (9/20/08)

I am the baby van. You are the mommy van. (9/19/08)

I am not cute! I am sweet. (9/16/08)

Logan, stuck between the chair and the table: Woe is me. Woe is me. Woe is me. (9/11/08)

I am not a train. I am an SUV! (9/10/08)

Evan to Logan: Here is your Pooh Bear.
Logan: No! It's a bear!
Evan: Oh! here's your bear.
Logan: No! It's a Pooh Bear!!
Repeat 5 times. (9/8/08)

The electronic phonics toy: Press a button!
Logan: NO! (9/9/08 )

Logan, lying on the floor: I am a dead spider. (9/4/08)

James to Logan: Eat your soup
Logan: I'm too busy. (9/2/08)

Most recent quotes in sidebar...

Logan-Speak

My collection of memorable quotes from Logan for June, July & August:

* 8/31/08 - "I want sugar, though." (sugar = yogurt)

* 8/31/08 - Logan: "Kids! Be Quiet! Daddy is Sleeping!"..."I am going to go get them in trouble."

* 8/29/08 - "I want not a bite."

* 8/27/08 - Doctor to Logan: "Say 'Ah' really big." Logan, in tiny voice: "Ah really big."

* 8/27/08 - "There's a bird! It poops, huh?"

* 8/17/08 - "Don't smile at my face."

* 7/19/08 - James: "We are crossing the Pawpaw River." Logan: "It's a doggie river."

* 7/16/08 - Logan singing: "Have a birthday to me!"

* 7/12/08 - Logan, with wide eyes and in a whisper: "The secret is coming."

* 7/12/08 - Logan: "I have an owie."
Melissa: "How did you get an owie?"
Logan: "A butterfly bite"
James: "Hurry! Get the butterfly venom antidote!"
Sophie: "Logan, butterflies don't bite!"

* 7/7/08 - Melissa to Logan: "Logan, if you finish your vegetables, you may have some strawberries." Logan: "I am a daddy robin! I am bouncing like a daddy robin!"

* 7/2/08 - Melissa to Logan: "Copycat!" Logan: "Copykitty!"

* 6/23/08 - Evan: "Logan, do you want some jicama?" Logan: "No. Trash!"

* 6/21/08 - "Appleboss" = applesauce; "Ephelant" = Elephant ; "Strawbeddies" = Strawberries; "Ef-uh-dee" = SUV

* 6/19/08 - Logan: "Penguin, please!" Melissa: "Sophie can you translate?" Sophie: "He calls mango 'penguin'." (Now we eat Black Bean Penguin Salsa.)

* 6/8/08 - Out of the blue: "Jackie's foot broke off." (My sister recently fractured her foot.) We assured Logan that her whole foot did not break off!

* 6/6/08 - "Helicopter cut grass... People live on airplane. Say 'Bye people!'"

See Sidebar for Logan's latest!

Yours and "Mines"

I guess, according to toddler logic, if "yours" has an "s" on the end, so should "mine". Logan turns two years old next week, and he has been saying (or shrieking) "mines" a lot more about things.

On the way home from an evening soccer practice this week, James and the kids stopped in a store to buy some cleats for Evan (who now has bigger feet than me and is wearing Men's size 8). Upon arriving home, the kids had to tell me about Logan's antics. He picked up the "foot measuring thing" and rocked it in his arms. James told him to put it down, and Logan bent over it and started asking it, "Are you tired, man?"


The pitter patter of little feet...


toddling over to the window...


to talk to his reflection!

Yesterday, Logan talked on the phone with James. He looked around, thinking of things to say. His eyes fell on Sophie, and he told his daddy, "Sophie is a monster." Sophie, of course, started giggling as only she can, and Logan informed James, "Sophie is being naughty."

An oft-repeated phrase in Logan's repertoire is "What happened?!" He asks us that question whenever we do or say things that he just doesn't understand. For instance, this morning I dropped a plate on the floor and he asked, "What happened?!" until I explained in words that I had dropped a plate.

Recently, Evan cut his finger badly, and while we were getting ready to go to the ER for stitches, Logan gave Evan hugs, kisses, pats on the head, and toys to comfort him. He asked him, "Do you need a kiss? Do you need some Tylenol?"

This afternoon, I took Logan to a pediatric orthotist who adjusted Logan's shoe inserts. Logan played with a wall maze, pushing red balls (which he called "red fireworks") around the paths, and pushing and twisting buttons and knobs. He told me several times, "This is a computer loading!"

Logan seemingly eats very little, but eats more when he is distracted. We often let him play with cars or draw at the table, because more food actually ends up in his mouth.



This evening, after Sophie had eaten, she fed Logan bites while she drew for him on a white board. Logan calls our van "the blue van", but since Sophie had a green marker, he ordered her, "Draw a green 'blue van'!"

More fun Logan-speak can be found in the sidebar!

Reality Check?

Sophie's grammar lesson today asked her to write a commanding sentence to go with this picture. Her answer: "Kids, after you clean up your toys you must go to Lakeside (amusement park), Casa Bonita, the rec center, and you also must go to a really cool park, and you must have a picnic and some Cherry Coke."

Don't Have a Cow, Man!

Last night, while looking at a picture of cows, Logan started "mooing" then said, "Have it? Have a cow?"

James and I cracked up which Logan enjoyed so that he kept repeating, "Have a cow!" and laughing at his own "joke".

Budding Feminist?

The following is a video of Logan's friend, Olivia. Olivia's parents, Bill and Andrea, gave me permission to post this video of Olivia saying her catechism answers. It gets quite amusing when she confuses the name of the first man with the name of her favorite neighborhood worker...

Warms a Mother's Heart

Logan to me when I sat down beside him to watch him play: "Away. Walk. Walk. Stairs."

Logan, pointing to me: "H-h-h-h-h-heavy! H-h-h-h-h-heavy!"

Logan to Sophie who was lying down: "SLEEP! SLEEP!"

I've taken a cue from him, and now instead of asking him for a kiss, I command, "Kiss! Kiss!"

Quote of the Week

Me: "Can you say, 'I love you Mama'?"

Logan: "Stop it p'ease."

I'm Awake Now

Just a little bit ago, I went to lie down on the couch for a short "power nap" before starting some school planning. I picked up a folder labeled "Princess Stories" lying on the couch, and curious as to its contents, I opened it, hoping to read a good nap-time story. The story caught me off guard, sleepiness dissipating as I laughed to the point of tears. I must share with you the story of...

"The Very Horrible Girl Fairy"
by Sophie

There was once a very bad fairy who was turned into a plain girl for her punishment. Some people took her into their house for a party, but they got black eyes, so they decided not to be her friends. (Now, this is a very short story, so it is about to end.) The people took her and threw her into a lake, and that was the end of her. They were put in jail for doing that, and they so-called lived happily ever after, but they were so miserable that they died later.

Classic Sophism

Yeah, I've really been into blogging lately...

But, I have to at least blog this:

While putting away groceries Sophie asked, "Did you buy any Cannibal's Tomato Soup?"

Before I forget...

Recently James held an impromptu supper time spelling bee with the kids just for fun:

"Okay kids, who can spell sewer?" (Don't ask me why that particular word popped into his head while we were eating!)

Sophie: "I can! I can!" pausing to spell into her hand, then saying out loud "S...T...I....N...K...Y."

We cried with laughter.

Tasty

Sophie told me recently, "Mom, I remember playing at a park and it was so cold, my toes were frosting!"

I couldn't help but laugh.

She knew why I was laughing and laughed too as I asked her, "What flavor? Vanilla, Chocolate, Lemon, Strawberry or Cherry?!"

Sometimes the kids wittingly coin their own terms. On a hike, I asked Evan to give me my water bottle. He taste-tested the two bottles that he had to tell between his and mine. "Here, this one is yours, because mine is stalized."

If You Were a Fly On Our Wall...

"Pillow Talk"

James: "I'm glad that I married you."

Me: "I'm glad that I married someone who lives in Colorado." (...Cracking myself up.)

James: Good-natured laughter

(I'm so glad that I married someone who enjoys my teasing.)



"Pillow-Talk" Part Two

Me: "I don't ask for much. Just get me something gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free."

James: "'Nothing' is easy!"


During the Televised National Spelling Bee

Matthew impersonating a judge: "Spell 'nonsense'"

Matthew impersonating a contestant answering: "Khwoihtksdtl"

(Get it? He made me laugh!)


Overheard on a Daily Basis

Any given member of this family: "Evan would you please stop singing Christmas songs?"

Sophism

Yesterday, Uncle Rich was dressed to the hilt in western wear. He put on his cowboy hat as Sophie walked by. She scrunched up her face and said, "You are so handsome, I can hardly stand to see you!" Uncle Rich laughed and said that he hadn't heard anyone say something like that in a long time!

Curtains Away!

Last night when James said goodnight to Sophie, she asked him to say the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet." He obliged and as he was leaving, Sophie stuck the fabric of her bed tent in her mouth and said, "Look Daddy, I'm eating my curtains away too!" (curds and whey)

Alcohol!

Yesterday, I took the kids to the doctor for Matthew and Sophie's 7 and 5 year well-child check-ups. Sophie had to get her 5 year old booster shots -- three of them. The nurse had a plastic disc with little plastic points all over it and a cut-out area for the needle. She put the disc on Sophie's arm and the points distracted Sophie from the needle poke. I've never seen that before! It worked! The booster stung, because the medication itself stings, but Sophie was brave and didn't cry at all. She was enjoying the nice nurse and later told me that she didn't want the nurse to know what she looks like when she cries.

During the vaccination process, the nurse explained to Sophie that she would wipe her arm with an alcohol wipe. Sophie exclaimed in a shocked voice, "ALCOHOL!!" ...At the recent birthday party the kids attended, some kids were chanting some little rhyme about "...baby's drinking alcohol!" I told our kids to stop repeating it and had to explain why it wouldn't be good or funny for a baby to drink alcohol. This incident might explain, however, why Sophie calls egg nog "eggohol" and her reaction to the nurse's statement. I laughed!

Sophisms

This morning, I listened to Sophie singing "stream of conscience" style in the bathtub. When she trilled, "I really love Christmas, because that is when I get some presents," she apparently heard me snort with laughter, because she immediately edited her refrain to include, "but I'm happy with what I have right now."

This evening, she tried to sing Psalm 46A, the version in our Psalm book set to the tune of "America the Beautiful" (which by the way, is VERY distracting to me--not her singing-- but the problem that the tune automatically brings the original words into my head!) She told me that at first she thought that the line, "And, therefore, tho' the earth remove we will not be afraid" was "...we will not be his friends." Silly gi'l.

The kids bundled up tonight and watched the lunar eclipse progress for awhile from the front porch. They even got some rakes out and raked up a pile of leaves on our front lawn while they were waiting to see the moon turn reddish. I really need to get a bench to sit on out front. I stayed inside where it was warm and made a grocery list. (James wasn't home yet.) Later we looked at the moon from our front bedroom window.

Sophism

"Daddy is my best guy."