Colin talks about getting married alot lately. The other night he wanted to be "the daddy of the house" and decided to put Daddy to bed in his bed and that he was going to sleep with me. Didn't go over too well when after 30 minutes we told him he needed to be Colin again and sleep in his own bed. There were lots of tears; "Paigey lives at home, Chloe lives with her Mommy and Daddy. No one will marry me." That quickly turned into Colin just wanting to marry me. My sweet sensitive boy. We had a long talk about when he is older he will find his own special girl who is his own age and it would be silly to marry Mommy, and yadda yadda yadda. 


Today we are leaving school and Miss Jessica, one of his (and my!) favorite teachers was helping out in the office. We stopped to talk for a few before leaving. Here's our conversation on the car ride home:


Colin: I can't marry Miss Jessica because we aren't the same age, right?
Mommy: Right. 
Colin: Maybe when I'm her age then I can ask her to marry me
Mommy: You want to marry Miss Jessica?
Colin: Yea. She's nice and funny and pretty. 
Mommy: She is, isn't she? Mommy likes Miss Jessica
Colin: Me too. When I'm her age I'm going to ask her. Maybe she'll say yes. Maybe she'll say no.

I laugh a little


Colin- still serious: But I don't know her age number so I don't know when I'll be her age to ask her. I'm going to ask her tomorrow. to himself but loud enough for me to hear I'm going to ask her tomorrow when I can marry her.

Colin: Look Mommy! Belle (pronounced Belly) Tire is almost done
Mommy: ::laughing:: It's Belle, not Belly
Colin: No it's Bell-e. Belly Tire
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Colin: Know what someone said at school today?
Mommy: What's that?
Colin: a bathroom word.
Mommy: That's not good
Colin: They said varted
Mommy: ::laughing:: what was that?
Colin: varted.
Mommy: farted?
Colin: No varted with a V. V-v-v-varted.

Colin: Want to be my special Valentine?

Mommy: I would. Would you like to be my special Valentine?

Colin: Yeah.

Mommy: A Valentine is someone you love a lot

Colin: I love you really really alot

Did you know that Grandma is older than Jesus? Apparently Colin did :)

Tonight at bedtime:

Colin: How old is God?

Me: God isn't a number.

Colin: He's old - like 75. No like 50. Jesus is 55 and God is 58.

Me: Yeah?

Colin: Yeah. God is older than Grandma but Grandma is older than Jesus.

Here are some of the latest Colin-isms:

I'm driving the boys home from school and talking to Mike on the phone. I overhear this:

Colin: Elias, you are a child of God. Did you know that? Big Brother Colin is a child of God. Daddy's a child of God. Mommy's a child of God.

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We are sitting at the table for dinner and Colin is talking about what he did at school.

Colin: We learned about proglams

Mike: Programs?

Kristi to Mike: No, I bet he means something else. Think what week it is.

Kristi to Colin: What did you talk about?

Colin: proglams and idinians

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Colin whispers as if he is telling a secret: I said poopy today

holding back a smile

Mommy: What was that?

still quietly

Colin: I said poopy today.

watching Colin's "light" click that he is tattling on himself because we don't say poopy

Colin: I didn't say it here {he points on the floor} I said it at school. I didn't say it here Mommy. I said it to Bennett.

Here's a view of our conversation driving to school today

Colin: Know what I want to be when I grow up?
Mommy: What's that buddy?
Colin: A SUPER HERO! Not a naughty or a bad one but a nice super hero.
Mommy: I like nice super heros
Colin: Whatcha want to be when you grow up?

I want to say good question but instead

Mommy: ummmm a Mommy

Colin laughs

Colin: You are a Mommy.

pause

Colin: I know what you are going to be. A PRINCESS!
Mommy: A princess?
Colin: Yup! A beautiful princess and me, Daddy and Elias are going to be the Superheros who save you...

and the rest of the car ride we talked about what I was going to be saved from and how he was going to save me.

Crappy photo picture of Colin's bulletin board at school. His is the green circle towards the bottom that reads "A Nice Super Hero"

Colin: I'm DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE
Mommy: I'll be up in just a minute.
Colin: I want Daddy to wipe
Mommy: Ok. You wipe first and Daddy will be up in one minute
Daddy: Good job wiping
Colin: I cleaned my dirty slide

Yup. He called it his dirty slide and I need only one guess as to who taught him that. Starts B and ends with an -ennett.