November edition: The funny things they say

Nov 4
We saw a homeless man with a sign asking for money.  Riley asked who the man was beside the car.  I told her he didn't have any money and was hoping for help to get some food.  She asked a few questions after that, and one of my answers included something about us being lucky to have money for good healthy food.  She said, "I wish that man come to my house and be lucky to have some of my food."

Nov 5
We were taking a layer of ice out of the bottom of the freezer, and afterward Riley says to me, "Good team work, guys!  High five!"

Nov 7
Riley and I were playing with her doll and I was saying something about her being Stella's Mommy.  She informed me that she was not a mommy and that I was Stella's mommy.  So I said, "Oh, so you are Stella's sister?"  And she got all offended and said, "NO.  I'm Riley.  I'm Leighton's sister."

Nov 7
I was typing a shopping list into my phone, and was saying the items out loud.  I was putting in 'parm cheese' and Riley was so confused and asked, "Did you just say Palmer?"  Palmer is one of Leighton's friends at school!

Nov 7
Leighton was walking around after dinner showing us his big belly.  Riley said, "Leighton your belly looks so big.  There must be a baby in it!"

Nov 8
Riley was saying she wished she could go skating for real after I was explaining to her that sliding on her socks on the floor with Leighton wasn't true skating.  I told her you skate on ice.  She says, "Wow, we should buy some ice, too.  That would be SO cool!"

Nov 9
Leighton was looking at his LEGO man pen and turned the head around to face backwards.  He said, "This pen must be a teacher."  When I asked why, he said, "Because he has eyes in the back of his head."  I asked where he had heard or read that and he said his teacher told them that!

Nov 9
Riley's hair has started to be a bit difficult to brush lately because the ends really need to be trimmed off.  She keeps talking about a hair cut at Snip Its but sometimes she jumbles the words and calls it a 'hair snips'.

Nov 12
Riley and I were driving into the parking lot of the JCC, and she calls out, "Oh yay!  Decorations!  They have decorations for Christmas, too!"  I told her I didn't think that there were any decorations for Christmas at the JCC.

Nov 14
Leighton: Clementine is my girlfriend.
Clementine: Yeah.  I'm his girlfriend.  I'm in love with him.

Nov 14
Today after Riley and I volunteered in Leighton's art class at school, Riley said to me, "After all that work with Mr Polidore I am tired.  I need to rest.  I need to just rest and watch some TV.  So tired.  That was a lot of work."

Nov 15
As we were driving into the grocery store parking lot, Riley says, "Look, Mommy!  Decorations!  They have up all the Christmas decorations.  They have the Christmas decorations up for Halloween! "  She was just so excited that she couldn't keep her holidays straight!

Nov 15
Leighton: Whoa that boy just got in the back of the car and his mommy got in the front and he was still in the back where there is no seatbelt or anything and they are going to drive away!
Me: (thinking he meant the back seat and not the trunk/hatchback/back) Leighton you get in your back seat and there's a seatbelt and you do it all yourself.  Maybe that boy can, too.
Leighton: No Mommy.  In the back.  I don't sit in the back.  Nobody sits back there.  Unless like our car and the seats are folded down but then you can't get in back there and sit there and …
Me: (clues in to what he meant) Well, maybe the boy is climbing through.
Leighton: Then that boy must have the super duper type of mommy.
Me: Why?
Leighton: Because she let him get in the back of the car like that!
Me: So I am not the super duper type of Mommy?
Leighton: No.  You are the super duper type of Mommy … just not the type to let us crawl through the back of the car.

Nov 16
Leighton and Riley were talking about something in the car and I wasn't paying very close attention until I heard this ...
Riley: I'm not Mommy.  I'm Riley.
Leighton: No.  Not Mommy.  Mummy.  You know - a mummy - that is usually wrapped in toilet paper.
(more random back and forth between them)
Leighton: A mummy is usually wrapped in toilet paper, right Mommy?
Me:  It's not toilet paper Leighton.  It's a special kind of cloth.
Leighton: Well, not if it's what you dress up as for Halloween.  Then you can use toilet paper.

Nov 16
The kids were listening to music and dancing around the living room.  When 'Livin La Vida Loca' was playing, Leighton said, "Do you know what it sounds like they're saying?  Yo Gabba Gabba!"

Nov 16
We were giving the kids some prunes and Riley called them 'crunes' which is how Leighton pronounced them when he was a little guy, too!

Nov 18
Riley was looking at a map today and asked, "What America do we live in?  Boston?  America?"  I was so impressed she knew what a map was and that she knew we lived in America.  No idea where the Boston idea came from, lol.

Nov 18
Leighton: I can't wait til the year 2000 … I mean 3000.
Me: You won't be alive.
Leighton: I bet I will be.
Me: I don't think so.
Leighton: Will you be?  No, you're too old.  What about Riley?
Me: No.
Leighton: Elias?
Me: No.
Leighton?  WHAT?  But he's soooooo little.  What about a newborn baby born today?

Nov 19
We were driving past the high school that we are zoned to on the way to the library …
Leighton: I will go here, right?
Me: Yep.
Leighton: Will Riley go to this high school, too?
Me: Yep.
Leighton: When you have a 3rd baby, will it go here too?
Me: I am not having a 3rd baby.
Leighton: Yea well, let's just say you do, ok? Will it go here?
Me: Sure Leighton.

Nov 22
We were at the store looking at board games and Leighton spotted Monopoly.  He called it "Money-polly" and for the next day or so kept calling it that or "mono-pole-ee" and we'd correct him to 'monopoly'.  It was pretty cute.

Nov 25
Leighton was telling me that they made placemats in class and colored in boxes of the things they were thankful for.  He told me he colored in being thankful for all sorts of things, but that he wasn't thankful for dogs so he didn't color that one in.  And the rest of  conversation went like this:
Leighton: I didn't color in the one for death.  Because I'm not thankful for death.
Me: Death?  That was one of the choices? Who is thankful for death?
Leighton: Ellie colored it in.
Me: That is a strange choice to have on there.
Leighton: Oh, not death.  I mean faith!  What's faith?

Nov 26
Leighton tasted his cafeteria served Thanksging mashed potatoes, looked at me and said, "These don't taste like yours at home."  We then had a conversation about 'from scratch' vs. 'packaged'.

Nov 26
I told Riley we were going to Leighton's old school and that the principal would be there so we could visit her (she hasn't been there on our last two visits - and you may recall she was Riley's favorite person there. … ), and Riley said in a really grouchy and huffy voice, "She no be there."  I reassured her that she knew we were coming and would be there.  Then Riley got super excited and I asked if she was going to hug her and she said, "Yes!  And kiss her!"

Nov 26
I asked Leighton if he remembered where he got his first ever glow necklace/bracelet and reminded him it was from Harry's Burritos in Larchmont.  After being reminded of that he quickly recalled collecting several from there over our many visits.  And then he said, "That was the place with the clouds that I was trying to show you that time, right?"  We couldn't believe her remembered that.  It is amazing how the mind works.  This was on a visit after one of my Dr appts when I was pregnant with Riley, so probably 3.5 years ago.  Leighton would have been about 2.5 - we had a long discussion about the clouds painted on the roof because he kept telling us that they were the same as the gas station.  We had NO idea what he was talking about, but sure enough a few days later he pointed out that the Gulf gas stations have clouds painted around their logo: http://www.mutualoil.com/gulf.html - a place we never even got gas, but he noticed it!

Nov 29
Tonight when we lit the candles on the menorah, Riley asked if we got to sing Happy Birthday!