Friday, November 23, 2007

Let's Play A Game

I'll give you a quote , and you try to guess the context and the brother that said it.
Ready? Here we go:

  • "Only hands go in there..."
    Yep. It's Jack. And he was talking about the sink, ok?
  • "Ommy climbed up too!"
    Jack again. After both had been discovered atop Mt. Dresser-est.
  • "Ommy broke it!"
    See a pattern here? Jack lets me know what his brother has been up to.
  • "Go away Mommy over there."
    Jack indicates that he wants to begin a game of hide and seek.
  • "Trees bother you."
    Sigh. Jack is scared of the foliage.
  • "Jack do ballet."
    Right. And just ask him what his favorite color is.
    (Hint: it rhymes with 'ink'.)
  • "Leg off. Eat leg."
    It was Thanksgiving, people. Jack was impressed by Daddy's Henry VIII-like maneuver on the turkey.
  • "Messy down here."
    Jack helps me clean up after Thanksgiving dinner. As if it would even be possible for me to drop all of these crumbs on my own.
  • "No kiwi, no carousel, no monster, no jello."
    Jack's anti-Christmas list. Things not to offer him.
Hmmm.... it sounds like Thomas says nothing at all. Which is not the case. He is just a bit more practical:
  • "Eh-coo-me".
    Excuse me.
  • "Ah bee eh-coo-me".
    May I be excused please?
  • "ROCK AND ROLL!"
    Self-explanatory.
  • "Ah wuv woo"
    I love you.
  • "DD cars! DD cars! DD cars!"
    I want you to put the Cars DVD in NOW.
  • "Pee kee boo!"
    If Thomas says this to you, act surprised.
  • "Smoke! Smoke!"
    No worries Tommy isn't asking for a cigarette. 'Smoke' is what he calls his Thomas the Tank Engine train, "the smoke train". Endless fun is to walk up to Tommy in the playroom and ask him "Smoke? Smoke?" and have him say yes and then smile sweetly at everyone staring at me as I reach for something in the diaper bag.
  • "More rice please!"
Overall, Tommy's words have a strangely "Scooby-Doo"-like quality to them. Which makes them sound even cuter, of course.

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