Quotable #6

"What you're doing, Mommy?"
-I'm changing your diaper.
"Why you're using a wipe?"
-I have to clean your bottom.
"Why you have to clean my bottom?"
-Because you pooped in your diaper.
"Why I pooped in my diaper?"
-Because you didn't go on the potty.
"But why I pooped?"
-Because God made your body to get rid of waste that way.
"What waste is?"
-Umm...when you eat food, some of it goes out of your body as waste.
"But why did I eat food?"
-Because you were hungry.
"But why I was hungry?"
-Because that's the way God made your body.
"But why that's the way God made my body?"
-You'd have to ask God that one.
"BUT WHYYYYYY GOD?!?!? BUT WHYYYYYYYY??!?!"
-What did he say?
"He said Yes."

Peter, why did you do that?

"Because why I did."

He asks some tricky questions, but the impossible ones come out of the blue and usually sound like this:

"What I was talking about?"

"What I did yesterday?"

"What I almost did?" 

"Who was that girl?"
What girl?
"The GIRL I was talking about"
I don't know which girl you were talking about. Where did you see her?
"THE GIRLLLLLL!!!"
Peter, I don't know who the girl is. What does she look like?
"What?"
What does the girl look like?
"What girl?"

A few of my current favorites:
Baby octo-pellus (A capella Babies CD)
Mounteen, Raiseen, Muffeen
Milk chocolate
Orange Juice Water (diluted OJ)
Miss Mommy (Kory told him he could just call me Mommy and I quickly reprimanded him) :)

"When Lukers wakes up he will wake up for 100 days?"
Oh goodness, I hope not. That sounds awful.
"Aw Mommy. Don't be sad about it. I wove you. Can I kiss you?"

"How did you not catch me?"
We were at a swimming pool with a slide for the little kids. An adult has to catch them when they enter the water. A little girl came down the slide with no one to catch her, so I pulled her out of the water and got her to the side of the pool. I looked up at the slide to tell Peter to go and he was nowhere to be found. Apparently, he went down the slide just a few seconds earlier and I didn't catch him because I was helping that girl. He asked me later why I didn't catch him and I explained. He asked me again a few days later and Daddy encouraged it because he thought it was funny to joke about me letting Peter sink. This slide event happened at least 6 weeks ago now and Peter still asks me almost daily why I didn't catch him. My response is now, "I'm not going to talk about it right now."

Our friend, Keyton, came over and did some work for us at our house a while back. That night, Peter's bedtime prayer sounded like this:

"Dear God,
Thank you for Keyton. Thank you for Keyton's dog. Thank you for our dog. Thank you for our neighbor's dog. Thank you for Keyton's neighbor's dog. His neighbor has a dog? Thank you.
Amen."