Quotes from Charlie

Here are a few of Charlie's latest comments that made us laugh.

Looking at a picture in one of his story books of a mom mowing the lawn: "Hey! Moms can't mow the lawn!!" (Seth and I fit pretty well into very gender-stereotyped roles, which looks like it might get Charlie into trouble if he ever spouts this stuff around the wrong person. In my defense, the last couple of times I tried mowing the lawn, Frankie started crying for me so much, we just gave up.)

"That's not a question mark. It's a mystery."

"Remember when Reed was 4 and then he turned 5?.....That was totally funny."

Charlie: I have to go pee.
Me: I have to go pee, too.
Charlie: You have to go PEE???!!!
Me: Yes, we both have to go at the same time (thinking that's what he's so astounded by).
Charlie: Girls can GO PEE?? How can girls go pee???

Getting in the car, I turn on the engine as Charlie is getting in his seat. He says, "Mom! I'm not in my seat yet. Don't go until I say 'hit it!'" I wait a few seconds, hear his seat belt click, and then "Ok. Hit it."

Misheard lyrics

I noticed recently that the kids have become fans the Bruno Mars song That's What I Like. I also noticed some of the lyrics aren't fantastic for young children. Fortunately KidzBop has versions of the song that sounds pretty much the same as the original, but with cleaned up lyrics so I let them listen to that version.

I probably didn't need to worry too much, though, given Charlie's tendency to butcher lyrics. The kid's version of the song changes the lyric "strawberry champagne on ice" to "strawberry milkshake on ice" (kind of corny, I know). When Charlie heard that, he started laughing and said, "They sang it wrong. It's supposed to be 'strawberry shampoo, that's right!'"

He's also pretty convinced that "Despacito" is pronounced, "Ses-flock-flee-co." And here he is singing the well known hit by Pat Benatar: "Hinowinovencha!" I'll let you see if you can figure out what song he's singing.

A new era

We've hit an exciting milestone around here. Exciting for us, I guess, probably not so much for anyone else.

Seth didn't get a chance to mow the lawn this weekend so I was hoping to somehow get to it during the week. I hadn't even really had a chance to think about it when Sam asked me if he could mow the lawn yesterday. "Do you know how to mow the lawn?" I asked. "Yeah. I can do it." So I said he could go for it.

I was too occupied with Frankie to even go out and help him get started, but pretty soon I heard the mower start, and before long he had the entire lawn mowed. He even refilled the gas at one point (I supervised) figuring out our complicated gas can (I was struggling despite the can's illustrated directions).

So yay for Sam! One of this kid's first sentences was "I help!" - and he is proving to be a very capable helper....when he wants to be, which is rarely the case when it comes to household chores.

The only problem: he knows the neighbor gets paid $25 to mow another neighbor's much smaller lawn, and he was a little disappointed to find that I was not going to pay anywhere near that much.