Yesterday, we drove our new Mazda5 from Philly to Tolland, CT.  Zachary was very tired, but not too tired to figure this one out....

"We are far!  We are far away from our house. Grandma and Grandpa's house is very far away from our house.  And our house is very far away from Grandma and Grandpa's house.  It is the same 'far'. "

Zachary and friends tried to set up a "campfire" yesterday on a grill. I asked him how he would start the fire. He said with a serious face: I will use a fire bomb. Fire bombs are good for starting fires!

 E hates when Z cries when they're both sent to bed. He's saying "Stop! You need to be well rested!!!"

Zachary pretends to read a fortune cookie: "stop and wait. you will get some food."

Yesterday, Zachary asked, "Why do cars park in the street?"

Donna, a little bit weary of his constant questioning, answered,

"I don't know why. Why do cars park in the street, Zachary?"

Zachary observantly says, " There are parking spots in the street."

Then, proudly exclaimed, "Now I know why cars park in the streets."

At breakfast, Z decides not to eat the yellow of his hard boiled egg.

Edwin says, "I eat the white, the yellow, and the green," referring to the

transition color between the white and the yellow.

With authority, Z replies, "That is MOLD, Edwin."

Z walking through shower curtain, "This is my car wash."

As Edwin came through the Target Store door, Zachary said, "My brother is emerging."

E hates when Z cries when they're both sent to bed. He's saying "Stop! You need to be well rested!!!"

Donna picked up Zachary after his first day at YMCA daycare.

"What did you eat for snack today, Zachary?"

"Goldfish and Japanese snack."

"Really?"

"Yes, Mom. It's what you packed."

Zachary was taking his Leapfrog laptop to bed with him last night, saying, "I have to a little work."

While walking through Donna's office building this week, she asked Edwin if he could read what was posted on a door.

Edwin said, "Zachary."

Three year old Zachary, in gleeful amazement chirpped, "Is it MY office?"

 

At home, Edwin brought the platter of veggie burgers from the microwave to the table.

Zachary took one and placed it on his plate, proclaiming, "I got my burger all by myself."

Donna pointed out that Edwin had brought the burgers to the table.

Zachary proudly insisted, "I put it on my plate all by myself."

E: How do you spell alphabet?

M: A L P H A B E T

E: No, it's A L F U B I T

Zachary just said: if you open the fire hydrant, will fire come out???

Z to E: Edwin, you have to be quiet, I'm on the phone (as he holds a remote up to his ear). Seems it worked so well that Z stayed on the "phone" for an extended period of time.

May 17, 2011

Boys ask for water at bedtime. DA says no.

E: It keeps me alive.

 

How could you NOT give him a drink?

June 9, 2011 9:19 pm

Edwin was eating Gnocci Alfredo. He called it, scary gnocci "Afraid-o."

He said, "The scary things I eat turn into scary poop."

Edwin says he is a gnocci-ovore.

June 19, 2011

Z: Does that make Sense (when you are talking and he wants your attention).

Overheard chatter:

If you want to go to the girl's bathroom, you have to take a mommy in there.

June 27, 2011

Michael to Edwin: Keep your spit in your mouth.

Edwin: You don't keep your spit in your mouth.

Michael: Yes, I do.

Edwin: No you don't. You swallow it, then it goes in you stomach, and you pee in the potty.

Sometimes Donna catches Edwin spitting in the toilet. No doubt it is the short cut.

Edwin put a spoon and fork back to back (like people do to "play" the spoons).

E: It's a FOON.

D: Where did you get that word?

E: It's a FOON for eating food.

E: How do you spell foon?

D: How do YOU spell foon?

E: It starts with an F, and then an O, and then another O

D: Then what?

E: An N

After swimming at the YMCA:

E to Z: We went swimming at the YIMKA.

After shopping at Target. Donna happened to drive past a Staples store.

Z: That's the wrong red circle Target.

D: No, that's Staples, a different store. That's where you buy computers, printers, ink, paper, pens, pencils, paper clips. .

E: and staples

E: and staplers.

Since Edwin is 5, when his new bicycle seat was too high, he said:

Mommy, this is at the 6 level. Put it at the 5 level.

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Zachary just set his first "price" for a favor. Edwin has a white
balloon, and Zachary has a purple one. Edwin wants to switch. Zachary
informed him that it would cost "twenty dollars" for this favor. They
haven't switched yet.

A little Edwin story:

We've been seeing a little mouse in our house occasionally, and we had
already tried setting the "regular" traps overnight with no success,
so we decided to get traps we could leave set 24/7 without worrying
about the boys touching them. We got some "mess free" mousetraps
which you may have seen on TV (or similar) which are set by pressing a
button. So, if they get accidentally hit, they merely unset. We also
got glue traps. Edwin informed Michael recently that the mouse was
going to come in and eat the cheese (peanut butter failed), leave the
snap-trap, and proceed over to the glue trap where it would get stuck.
We would then carefully remove the mouse from the sticky glue, and
wash it, because it would be dirty then.

This is all very amusing, especially since he actually saw the last
dead mouse we caught in August!

(We have not seen hide nor tail of the creature since we began setting traps.)

At playground with Edwin today: I told him "just a second!" and he replied, "not a second! Just a first!"

Z: I made a building poop! With windows in it!

Fwd:
From: Husband
Sent: Mar 11 2:15pm
Msg: "I want to see more dead dinosaurs" -- Edwin. so we are still here

(1/2) In Dallas today. I showed Edwin our hotel tower (Sheraton) from the sky walk. He saw the clouds passing by the top of the

(2/2) tower, which made a strange visual effect. He said "the hotel is trying to fall down".