Repeat

We had two guys over for dinner the other night and Joshua was at the top of his game that night. Both boys always get excited when we have company, and it usually just exemplifies itself in them having way too much energy. This night, however, Joshua was just really, really talkative and quite funny. He wasn't trying to be funny. He was just being himself. First of all, my 4 year old talks like he's an adult. He likes to use words like "actually" and "assume" and "might you...?". The other day I heard him say "precisely". He also tends to repeat things from his computer games in normal, every day conversation. So, when the friends were here... We were having fajitas and Daddy was fixing Joshua's. Joshua proceeds to tell Daddy what he wants on the fajita (and where he wants it, etc.). Our friends are talking to Daddy at the same time, so Daddy is not really paying attention to Joshua because Daddy already knows what Joshua wants on his fajita. Joshua realizes that Daddy is not paying attention to him. And since Joshua thinks that what he has to say is more important than anything that anyone else might have to say, he says, "Daddy, do you need me to repeat my instructions to you?" This tickled both Daddy and me. Joshua was totally serious.

Something else that Joshua does is to refer to people by the color of their shirt, particularly if he doesn't know their names. Later that evening Joshua called one the guys "Daddy's black friend" because he was wearing a black shirt. The other guy had on a white shirt, so he was "Daddy's white friend". These guys are neither white or black in skin color, just their shirts. :o) Daddy and I were both trying not to laugh, and thankfully our friends didn't catch what Joshua was saying. Oh the humor in a house filled with little ones.