Manwaring Moments: Starting Young

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Starting Young

We need James to get an edge before he goes to school, so Nathan has started nightly tutoring in lieu of his regular bedtime stories...

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Kate said...: wow, that's some heavy bedtime reading! he's going to blow away his kindergarten teacher!; March 18, 2011 at 4:42 PM

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Funny Things James and Jack Say...

March 2015
James calls his backpack a "pack-pack"

Jack: I have a booger Daddy
Daddy: Where is it, in your nose?
Jack: It was on my finger...so I rolled it, and rolled it, and rolled it, and rolled it, and rolled it, and rolled it, and rolled it, and rolled it... (you get the idea)...and threw it on the ground.
Daddy: Good job! That's what you do with boogers.

April 2014
Jack calls "gloves" glubs
James calls it "livary" for library

Feb 2014
Jack calls the race car Francecsco Bernuli from Cars 2 Francesco Ballony

Sept. 1st 2013
On a walk up at Snowbasin through the forest....
James: I used to live here.
Daddy: Oh, when?
J: In the forest.
D: Yes, but when did you live here.
J: Um, on Friday

Same walk, a squirrel crossed our path...
James: I love squirrels, they are my favvv-orite!
And Dragons.
And Dinosaurs.
Big, mean, meat-eating dinosaurs!

Feb. 2013
While reading scriptures one night (his have little pictures) he reads "And it came to pass, that all the bad guys got killeded up. Amen"

Nov. 16, 2012
James starting to get upset and his lower lip quivering:
M: What's wrong honey?
J: "My birthday's gone."
M: "What?"
J: "My birthday's gone, we gotta go get it."
M: "Buddy, you'll have another birthday in July, everyone gets a birthday every year."
Lower lip stops trembling
J: "Oh, that's good"

James' prayers usually go like this: "Dear Heavenly Father, Thank thee for this day, Thank thee for Tractors, Thank thee for Mommy, Daddy, James, and Jack-Jack, Name of Jesus Christ, Amen"

Oct 2.
We've put both the kids in the same room. Jack was crying for a second tonight, and James said "Jack lay down"

At Costco there are some dump trucks. James really wants one. Here's our conversation about them:
J: I need one Mommy
M: Well, Christmas is coming, we can ask Santa for one.
J: But Santa's not here, Mommy's here.
Mommy can we get one?

Now that Santa has been introduced...
M: James, guess who's coming to dinner on Sunday?
J: Santa?
M: No, Aunt Kirstin!
J: Oh, we need Santa to tell him about the dump truck.

Oct 2012 The other night while reading a bedtime story, James picked his nose, and Mommy tried to teach him a lesson about boogers...
Mommy: James we don't eat boogers, they are yucky, we wipe them on a tissue.
James: No, they are yummy.
M: No! They are yucky, we don't eat them.
J: No, they are yummy, we gotta cook them!