breakfast story

before i forget how this went...

at breakfast this morning, i had this conversation with dominic:

dominic: i want to sit next to you

me: ok, why don't you sit in opa's chair?

dominic: put opa's chair in the corner and put my chair there!

me: why? your chair is the same as opa's.

dominic: [insisting] put my chair there!!!

me: why don't you want to sit in opa's chair?

dominic: if i sit in opa's chair, omi will call me 'opa'.

who's telling this story anyways?

let's see if i can remember this right (even though it just happened!) -

dominic says at bedtime, "tell me a story"

ok, once upon a time there was a mean monkey---


"no it was an escavator!"

ok, there was a mean excavator---


"no, she was nice! a nice mouth escavator!"

ok, there was a nice mouth excavator. and she always helped everyone and was nice to everyone. one day she saw a monkey---


"no, it was a truck!"

ok, the truck needed help carrying his groceries---


"no, it was a pick-a-purple-pickle-pick truck!"

ok, the pick-a-purple-pickle-pick truck needed help with groceries---


"no, it was carrying pickles!"

well, the excavator helped that truck carry his pickles---


"she carried them one at a time"

were they very big pickles?


"no, they were tiiiiiiiiny."

oh, well, then she can carry a lot of pickles if they were tiny.


"ok, they were a little bit tiny."

ok, she carried them one at a time across the river---


"to here!"

she carried them one at a time across the river to dominic's house---


"it's omi's house!"

she carried them one at a time to omi's house---


"she put them in a jar!"

ok, she put them in a jar in omi's fridge---


"no, she put them in the freezer! in the downstairs freezer!"

and then opa ate them---


"no, dominic ate one!"

ok---


"and it was TOTALLY SPICY!"

[at this point, i start dying of laughter]

"it's not funny!"

ok, opa was eating them and dominic came and said, can i have one? and then he ate one and it was TOTALLY SPICY. 


"ok"

the end.

dominic's questions

i love that he does this and that he's so curious, and i even love answering the questions... but sometimes, just sometimes... i would like to have a five minute vacation from questions.

what does fire come from? what do leaves come from?


is my blood orange? are my bones green? (...no, i want them to be green!)


what is the fridge made of? can we take it apart to see?

take a picture!

dominic wants a picture taken of everything he makes: 

he actually made this truck by himself:

"look dude!"

recent funny quotes by dominic

at breakfast, dominic holding up his foot with an owie on it to show zoe:


look dude! 


on exiting a public washroom, passing a muslim woman in full hijab (very loud):

 is that guy cold?


on finding the right lego piece for a truck:


yeah baby! 


when zoe is brought into wherever he is:


hey pretty girl... hey pretty girl...

growing up

 the other day, mathias says to dominic, "well, i guess you're potty-trained now, huh?" to which dominic looked very puzzed. {what? potty? train? where's a train?} so i said, "it means you don't have to wear a diaper anymore. you're growing up!" later that evening, mathias was getting dominic ready for bed and went to get a diaper for him. "no, papa," dominic says, "i'm growing up!"

occasionally she cries

i was taking all these super-cute pictures of zoe before christmas, when mathias came home from work with a really loud 'HELLO!!' it startled zoe and made her cry. so dominic took papa to time-out. he sat mathias down in his (dominic's) time-out spot and said,

'now listen. zoe is little. you have to be careful of her.' then he gave mathias a hug and kiss and told him he was done with time-out.

too cute & hilarious. my favorite part is the 'now listen.'

medicine

dominic says to me while snuggling in bed this morning, "my tummy hurts." a moment later: "i want some medicine."

"oh, well, when we go up for breakfast i'll give you some of your 'medicine,'" [actually probiotics] i say.

"no i want the other kind of medicine."

"but that medicine is not for tummies," i say.

"what is it for?" he asks.

"it's for headaches and fevers," i reply.

pause.

"i have a fever."

tigers

dominic today at lunch: sometimes tigers bite me.  

me: oh really?  when do they bite you?

d: um.... when they're in the jungle.

me: where do they bite you?

d: on my arm.

me: what do you do when they bite you?

d: uh... i make them dead.

[wha...?]

me: what do you make them dead with?

d: a sword!  

[at this point, he's getting more excited.  this did not seem to be a scary story for him, he was getting really into it.]

me:  what kind of a sword?

d: a red one!

really, where does he get this fearlessness?  and i don't think i'm teaching him about things like swords and fighting...?  funny boy.

how he loves [auntie melissa]

often dominic says "what's this song about?" so today in the car we were listening to how he loves and i said, "dominic, this song is about how much God loves us. he loves you so much! he loves me, he loves papa and zoe too."

dominic says, "and he loves auntie melissa?" (how cute is that?)

"yes!" i said "he loves auntie melissa too!"

"and she will give him funny kisses?"

haha! what a guy! (auntie melissa gives dominic tons of funny kisses at bed time)

walk on water

conversation with dominic at lunch -

dominic asks me to tell him a story about Jesus. i start to tell him about Jesus walking on water, and then i'm trying to describe to him what it was and how amazing it was that Jesus walked on water. i tell him, "you know when you go swimming, if you put your feet in the water, what happens? do your feet stay on top of the water? or do they go down into the water?"

"they go down into the water," he says and he gets a bit distracted by the thought of swimming.

"what happens when your feet go into the water?" i ask, thinking he'll say he swims or grabs the ledge, or something else he does when swimming.

"i will die," he says

whoa! i wasn't trying to go there...

riding a motorcycle

when zoe does this in her highchair, dominic says, "look, mommy! she's riding a motorcycle!"

conversations with dominic

i have some pretty funny conversations with dominic. here's a funny one from breakfast:

d (totally out of the blue): "what happens to make the factory dead?"

[some back and forth about which factory, because i have no idea what he's talking about.]

finally i say, "where is this factory?"

d: "in germany"

me: "does it make VW cars?"

d: "it makes jaxon's car"

me: "did uncle mike [jaxon's dad] tell you about this factory?"

d: "no, uncle ken told me"

huh??? i don't know what the heck he was thinking.

dominic quote of the day

dominic and i walked to aero park with zoe. on the way, we saw someone mowing their lawn.
dominic says, "hey look what that guy's doing!" i looked up and said, "hm, i think that might be a girl." (thankfully the person did not hear us.)
dominic: "oh yeah. maybe it's a boy?"
me: "um, i'm pretty sure it's a lady."
dominic (shouting): "OH, LIKE LADY GAGA!"


haha! mathias makes one offhand comment about lady gaga and dominic doesn't forget it.

best osoyoos quotes

dominic says the funniest stuff. here's a couple from osoyoos:

on waking up from a nap with his firetruck: "firetruck is waking up. he is happy."

on getting dressed in his UV protection suit to go swim in the pool: "i look awesome."