Joshua-isms

It's hard to limit this to one post, but I've been collecting some of Joshua's cute sayings/conversations for a while now. For those of you who we will spend time with in the U.S. next year, this is just to whet your appetite for conversing with a 5 year old who talks like a 25 year old. :o)

* One day I showed him this page of 6-8 squares that I wanted him to cut out (still practicing his cutting skills). And he said to me, "Aaaaw, Mom, I only wanted to cut out 8 less than 10 pictures today." (That's two in normal language.)

* A different time Joshua came up and hugged me as he commented on my pretty blue sweater. "It feels just like llama wool, Mom!" He learned about llamas on one of his computer games and has ever since talked about llama wool quite a bit.

* "Mom, I think I'm just going to drink milk and eat vegetables forever so I can not ever get sick again. That will keep me healthy because those are healthy foods." ("Healthy foods" learned from Sesame Street)

* When trying to remember where his Exodus memory verse was found, he asked if "Excolonians" was the name of the book. :o) I had a hard time not laughing when he said that.

* After getting out our fall decorations, Joshua spied the orange plastic pumpkin candy dish. Remembering that we had candy corn in it last year, he asked if we could put some of the "triangle candies with 3 colors" in it again. We told him we didn't have any candy corn.
"Well, where can you get it?"
"You can get it in America."
"But that's on the other side of the world!"
Sorry, Joshua, no candy corn this year. :o)

* One day Joshua and Luke were picking up the 50 puzzles they had all over the kitchen floor so that we could get lunch ready. Well, Luke was picking them up, but Joshua was just kind of just sitting there. In trying to encourage Luke for doing the right thing (as well as try to get Joshua going at it too), I was praising Luke. So I said, "Luke, you're just going to town!" Since they didn't really know what that meant, I had to explain it to them. Then Joshua says, "Yeah, Luke, you are going to town. But I'm not going to town because I'm too tired." The two of them proceeded to have quite a lengthy conversation about who was going to town and who was not.

* Earlier this week I kept hearing something banging in the washing machine. I was afraid it might be broken until I realized that there were 2 toys in there being washed with the clothes. One was a toy phone that was turned on, so the lights and music were going off the whole time (though we couldn't really hear the music because my washer sounds like a rocket is taking off). Anyway, the washer is a front loader and you cannot stop it until the entire wash cycle is finished and it stops on it's own. Even if you turn it off, you can't get the door open. So we just had to let the toys get washed. When I took them out of the washer to inspect and see if they still worked, Joshua says to me, "Well, I guess we'll just have to sell them for junk now." I have no idea where he comes up with this stuff.

* When eating a new kind of lemon cookie the other day, I asked Joshua if it tasted like lemon or not. His thoughtful reply, "Hmmm, I think it tastes like banana, lemon, and lime all mixed together. It's quite delicious!" Thank you, Joshua, for your cookie commentary.

I'm sure there's more and I KNOW there will be more in the future. But these are just a few that have come up recently. That Joshua - he is something else!