Recent Jonah Sayings

1) Over this past weekend, Jonah watched part of Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, in which the main character Jonah receives messages from God. Later that day, when we were getting ready to go outside to play, I opened the front door to discover a piece of paper wedged into the door handle of the storm door.

"Oh, there's something in the door," I said.

Jonah immediately says, "It's a message from the Lord!"

It turned out to be an advertisement/coupon for Domino's pizza. Not so divinely inspirational!


2) I need to preface this one by saying that neither of my parents have had great dental health and both wear partials to fill in the gaps of where their real teeth have been removed. Luckily, I have apparently not inherited the unhealthy teeth gene and have not had so much as a cavity since I was a kid, and even that was in a baby tooth so that I don't even have a filling now. I hope Jonah will be the same.

Anyway, while Jonah and I were spending a night at my parents house, we were in the bathroom brushing his teeth. Jonah looks up to see the container in which my dad soaks his partials and says, "I want to see grandpa's fossils, Mommy!" (I guess "partials" and the word for old bones sound pretty similar to a three-year-old!)

I knew the man was getting older, but he's not THAT old!


3) Jonah recently got a new toy shopping cart to play with, and he enjoys "grocery shopping". While staying at my parents' house, he "shopped" for about an hour, after which he laid down on the couch, pulled a sheet up over him, and said, "All this shopping makes me tired, Mommy."

Typical man!

Emerging Republican?

Last week, Jonah was playing with his piggy bank. He had put some money in it andwas shaking it to hear the coins rattle around. Then he looked over at me and said, "I don't want to pay taxes, Mommy."

Needless to say, I cracked up.

When I told Josh about this, he also thought it was hysterical and said something to the effect that Jonah was already showing Republican leanings.

Hey, nothing wrong with that!

Unaaceptable at the Time but Funny in Hindsight

Our biggest problems with Jonah is getting him to listen to us when we tell to do or not do something. Another is trying to stop all the backtalk. It's a daily battle, and we never know from one day to the next if we're winning the war.

Anyway, yesterday at one point when Jonah said something he shouldn't have to me, I told him to go sit on the couch in time out. He went over to the couch and shouted back at me, "You're beastly!"

I don't know where he picked up this word (probably one of the books we've read to him, but I can't think which one), but obviously at the time this really ticked me off, and I promptly informed him that he can't talk to me like that and that he'd just earned himself another minute in time out.

In hindsight, though, it's pretty funny to think that he knows and picks up on these vocabulary words and can use them appropriately (well, maybe not "appropriately", but in their proper context - you know what I mean!).