funny things said in 2009

This entry for Sam will be very short as he still sees little need for verbal communication. He gets a lot of what he wants in other ways - usually by brute force. He does however, with some consistency, say hot dog (go.gog), candle ("ca. ca." followed by blowing) and mummy (muu-meeeeeeeeee). He also says"Blaaah" at the end of the little green frog song. Matt swears he said brownie but I didn't hear that one. His favourite little phrase which he says over and over is "oggi, oggi, oggi." He's a funny little guy.


Max is always saying funny things that make us laugh. Occasionally I remember to jot them down on a little pad on the fridge so that I remember them. Here are a few from the last several months.

Max's pronouncation is now pretty good but he used to have a few words that he said completely different from the actual word. One that I have mentioned before was "wawa" for screwdriver. Another which persisted for quite a while is "penkint" which meant blanket. It's funny how you start to use their words too which is probably why they persist. Another one which we still use is "fric fray" which means Chick-fil-A. When we would leave somewhere he would wave and say "bye, tee you waiter" instead of see you later.

He also had his own expressions which were a mystery to us. When he would get frustrated, he would shake his head and say "ginko, ginko, ginko." One day when I was frustrated with him I said "ginko, ginko, ginko." He stopped, looked right at me and shouted "NO GINKO." I guess it really has meaning to him as a word.

It's also funny how kids hear things that you read and get different meanings from the words. Max loves the book "the very hungry caterpillar" and always laughs at the page where he eats lots of junk food all in one day and then gets a "stomach ache". One day he opened the book and giggling pointed to the big piece of chocolate cake and said "look, a stuma cake."


For the first 2 years of life Max would not watch more than 30 seconds of TV at one time. The first programme he started to watch was "back at the barnyard" which he called "cows." Then, for a long time all he wanted to watch was "Mickey Mouse Club House." During this phase I was trying to get him to ask politely for something by saying please so I asked him "what is the magic word?" He immidiately reponded "Meeska, Mouska, Mickey Mouse" and looked expectantly. Lately Max's viewing has expanded and some of his favourites are Super Why, Little Einsteins and Dinosaur Train. He also loves the movies Finding Nemo, Toy Story, 101 Damations, Cars, The Grinch and Disney Prep and Landing.


One day Max was playing with Sam and out of the blue called him a "stinkin' Dolphin" - and he said it with such distain. I couldn't work out what he meant by this but then we realised that it is what the shark on Finding Nemo says when expressing his dislike of the dolphins. It's amazing what they pick up.

One time I was in the kitchen and I heard heard Max shout "time out, two minutes" and run to the time out chair. I asked him what he had done and he answered "I hit Sammy." I'm sad to say that this self discipline incident was just a one-off occurence. In fact he has started to blame others for things sometimes. One time I asked him why something was broken and he immidiately replied "Richard did it"


Sometimes when Max spills something or makes a mess I tell him that it makes mummy sad when he does that. Then when he or I have cleaned it up he will say "you not sad anymore" and one time he said "are you so happy now?"

I heard him playing with his cars one day and he said "I have a flat wheel (not tire but wheel), can Daddy fix it? No, not a screwdriver, a saw...........a tablesaw."


Another time he was playing with Rylee-
Max: I'm a big boy
Rylee: I'm a big girl
Max: That's Sarah(pointing to me), she's a big mom.

A while ago we went to visit Max's friend Jonathan who has cool dress up clothes. Max wore a muscle chest spiderman suit ALL DAY long and cried terribly when he had to take it off to leave. A couple of weeks later we were sitting together on the couch when he put his face right up to mine and said "remember when we went to Jonathan's house?............I turned in to Peter Parker"
Sometimes Matt and Max butt heads (imagine that). I will often hear Max defiantly stating "I say no to you Daddy" and once heard "I spit at you Daddy." I couldn't help but chuckle to myself but obviously Matt was not too happy. Sometimes during their tiffs he will say "go back to school Daddy". For the most part they are best buddies and fix things together and snuggle while they watch TV.


The first time it snowed this year I went in to Max's room in the morning and showed him the snow out of the window-

Max: What happened?
mum: It snowed
Max: That's not snow, it's just bird poo.


The first time I asked Max what he would like Santa to bring him for Christmas he said a motorbike and some candles!


One day I came down after getting ready for church he looked at me-

Max: (pointing to my necklace -I never wear jewellery) what is that, balls, beads?
mum: it's a necklace, do you like it?
Max: yes. What's that (pointing to my net tights)
mum: they're tights
Max: (looking very impressed) I wuv tights

Within seconds Sam had spotted the beads and almost choked me with my necklace so I took it off. I still never wear jewellery.


Max is amazing with names. At church he will point to people and say "there's ....." and get their name right.
Our pediatrician (who is a great doctor if you are looking for one) is Dr. Gary Weinberger. Last time we were at the office Max told the nurse "Weinberger is my friend." I have become friends with his wife and our boys have play dates. One time we were over at their house in the kitchen and Max looked up at Dr. Weinberger and, nodding with approval, said "that's a big old fire place Gary." Dr. W looked at me rather shocked and said "did he just call me Gary?"

I can't wait to see what they both say in 2010