Nana changed her purse for the fall to a very large bag with a lot of compartments. She was very excited to show Eitan. When he saw it, his reaction was: “Oh my God, your bag is big.” He sounded just like an adult!
Category: Thoughts
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Grown-up Goals
Eitan: “When I grow up, I’m going to be a truck driver”
Mama: “That sounds great. Where will you live?”
Eitan: “I’m going to live with you forever.”
Mama: “I would like that. You can park your truck in our driveway if you want.”
Eitan: “Yes I will do that. A kid would like to see that. You should buy another kid when I park it.”
Mama: “We can’t buy a person; that’s called slavery.”
Eitan: “Well, you should born another kid.”
Mama: “I’ll think about it.”
Eitan: “When I was a baby, I thought all eyes were marbles. Isn’t that funny of me??”
In the car with Nana and Papa.
Eitan: “I’m going to see A Camel on Monday.”
Nana: “A camel?”
Eitan: “A Deer. I mean Adir.”
Names can be confusing.
“The greatest part of my life is my mama and my dada.”
We feel the same way about you!
In the car, on the way to school Monday morning.
Eitan: “I’m worried.” (pronounced woowwied)
Mama: “Usually I’m not worried. You’re great at school and you always have a good day, but today I’m a little worried.”
Eitan: “why?”
Mama: “I’m worried about the lice in your school.”
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Eitan: “Do Dada’s have babies too?”
Pause while I collect myself and try to come up with an answer per the books: answer the question, don’t provide extra information
Mama: “Only mamas can have babies in their bellies”
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*MENTAL ALERT! WHAT IF HE THINKS THEY ARE IN OUR STOMACHS???*
Mama: “When I say belly, they are in a different spot than where the food goes. Mamas can still eat. The baby is in a place called the uterus or womb.”
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Eitan: “How does the baby poop?”
*of course….*
Mama: “it doesn’t use its tush. The baby is connected to the mama through something called the umbilical cord. It connects to the baby’s belly button. The food goes in that way and the waste comes out.”
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Mama: “The cord gets cut when the baby comes out. It doesn’t hurt the mama or the baby.”
Eitan: “Did I have that?”
Mama: “yes”
*still worried about the lice*
During chol chamoed Pesach, Eitan is home a lot, and we have to work. Nana and Papa always help out a lot, which we really appreciate. However, having him in the house isn’t very conducive to a calm work environment. I suggested – since Eitan is a great shopper – that Nana and Papa take him to Staples. They came home with some gems.
At one point, Eitan had to pee. Papa took him to the bathroom. They peed together (make an X!). However, Eitan’s pee was much shorter than Papa’s. Eitan was impatient and ended up yelling at Papa, “You’re done, Papa!” and trying to close the lid. Suffice it to say, Papa was not pleased.
When Eitan finally decided to let Papa finish peeing, he went to wash his hands. Suddenly Papa started to hear an electronic sound vroop vroop vroop. He looked around and Eitan was getting paper towels out of the automatic dispenser. Lots of paper towels. Papa called, “Eitan that’s enough!” and Eitan replied, “I’m getting for you!” vroop vroop vroop
Finally, they continued their shopping journey. At one point Eitan was behind Nana. Nana started yelling “where is he?! where is he?!” Eitan popped out, “Don’t freak out Nana”.
They came home with sticky notes, note pads, a new box of colored pencils, a ‘time we’ll return’ sign, and lots of great memories.
We “check” Eitan five times at night before he goes to sleep. There’s always too much conversation during these checks, but this was one of my favorites.
Eitan: “Mama can I ask you something?”
Me: “Anything”
Eitan: “I love you more than anyone in my class”
Me: “I love you more than anyone in the universe”
Eitan: “I love you that too”
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Pooping Expectations
Eitan: “I have to poop. I can go meself [pronounciation].”
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Eitan: “There’s pee in here!”
Dada: “That’s okay, you can poop in someone else’s pee.”
Eitan: “No I can’t”
Dada: “Yes you can”
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Dada: “Come to think of it, that’s probably your pee.”
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Eitan: “There’s pee in here!”
Are we really doing this again?
Eitan recently (and briefly) stopped eating MadeGood bars. We asked why and his response was, “they’re too chocolate chippity.”
Seriously???