Quote of the day April 7th 2011

Benji came to my room this morning with his huge plush shark and I grabbed the shark and Ben said:
"Mumma, that's not a cuddle-pie, that's a shark!"

"Don't I look scary Mummy?"

"No darling you look adorable."
"But I have fierce dinosaur feet and a scary Halloween costume on my head....Grrrrrrrrr!"
"Nope. Still adorable."

Almost too sweet quote of the day February 12 2011

"Mummy, I'm really sorry you're so sick but it's really great that you don't have to go to work today!"

Random quote of the day February 11th 2011

"Mom, I really hate blowing my nose.........but I love getting presents!"
And no, in case you are wondering, we have never given him presents for blowing his nose.

This morning...

I said to Ben, "Where are your mittens?"
And he said "My mittens? I'm not sure, I seem to remember putting them in the cold weather accessory basket.....Ah here they are!"
Cold weather accessory basket?!! I mean yeah, sure, I guess that's what it is, but I know *I* don't call it that. I call it either "That basket by the door" or occasionally "the mitten repository."

Sometime later he was showing me how fast all his sharks could go.
Then he asked me if I wanted too see how fast Tyrone could go. (Tyrone is a dog) Not as fast as a shark. But then to my surprise Tyrone went very fast by riding on the back of one of the sharks!

But it's what you were thinking!

Short preamble, there was an incident over the weekend that required all Ben's winter gear be washed, and during the washing the mittens were somehow detached from the jacket. We left for school yesterday and I didn't notice right away that the mittens were missing. As soon as I noticed we had to head back.......
Me: "Ben, do you know what I thought when I saw you standing there with no mittens?"
Ben: (thinks for a moment) "Oh sh*t?"
Me: "Ben! You're not allowed to say that!!"
Ben "No Mummy I didn't say that! That's what you thought!!"
So okay that was what I was thinking, but that's not what I was going to say.......

Talking about mammals

Conversation I was having with the boy today:

Me: "So what makes a mammal a mammal?"
Ben: "They make milk for their babies."
Me: "And?"
Ben: "And they feed that milk to their babies."
Me: "And they give birth to......"
Ben: "And they give birth to alive babies."
Me:" As apposed to?"
Ben: "Dead babies."
Me: "Um no."
Ben:" No? What then?"
Me: "Eggs."
Ben: "Oh."

Quote of the Day January 1st 2011

Our good friend Tristan made up a game to play with Ben. The game involved a beach ball that is also a globe. You pick a spot on the globe and come up with an insult that rhymes with the name of the place you chose for example "You have ugly pants, France." or "You're too skinny, Papua New Guinea!" (you get the point) and then you throw the ball to the other person and they have a turn. It was good fun until it got a little bit out of control. I had to put an end to the game when Ben whipped the ball at Tristan and screamed "I'm gonna shoot you in the face, Sharktown!"
Why? Well, it obviously doesn't rhyme does it?
;)
Seriously though, Even though Ben insisted that even though he could not find it again, there was such a place as "Skarktown" on his globe. And we did have to have a conversation about the subtle difference between insults and death threats. Good times.

Quote of the day November 1st 2010

"Dad do I really have to wash my face?"
"Yes."
"Awwwww Really?"
"Yes really."
"But I hate it! I hate it I hate it I hate it! I hate it like I hate sleep!"

Quote of the day

"Mummy, how do they know the mammoths were so wooly if all they found were bones?"

Anybody else have a child like mine? nope didn't think so.

We're shopping together and we get to the cereal aisle . I tell Ben that he can choose a cereal. Any cereal he wants. While going down the aisle he points to the "All Bran" and insists he wants that one. I ask him if he's sure that's the one he really wants. He says yes. I ask him if he's ever had it before, and he says yes, and he really liked it. He says he can't remember what it's called "Bran-something." And I say "But honey it's not a sweet kind of cereal." And he says "Yes it is, the second ingredient is sugar!" So I check it and low and behold the second ingredient is in sugar. Who knew?

Quote of the day

"Why does a star begin it's life inside a nebula? Is the nebula it's Mummy?"

Phone conversation between Benjamin and his younger cousin Jakob

Ben: "Hi Jakob!"
Jake: "Ben?"
Ben: "Hi Jakob!"
Jake: "Ben!"
Ben: "Hey Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaakob! What are you doing?"
Jake: "I'm playing with trains!"
Ben: "I'm playing with my cutlass and pirate hat!"
Jake: "I'm playing with trains!"
Ben: "I'm playing with my cutlass and pirate hat!"
Jake: "I'm a train!"
Ben: "I'm a pirate!"
Jake: "I'm a train!"
Ben: "I'm a pirate!"
Jake:" I'm a via train!"
Ben: "I'm an express via train!"
Jake: "Chooooooooooo!"
Ben" Choooooooooooo!"
Jake:"CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Ben and Jake:" CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Me: Go stand by the cannon so I can take your picture.
Ben: But Mummy! I'm not allowed to do that! Can't you see there's a chain around it?!
Me: It's okay.
Ben: really?
Me: Yes.
Ben: Are you sure?

Quote of the day- May 20th 2010

"I'm so, so sorry Mum, I've been a complete ass and I know it."


(Taken almost word for word from "Wind in the Willows" It's what Mole said after he grabbed the oars from the rat and tipped the boat.)

I asked him if he knew what "ass" meant and he said "fool".

Quote of the week- sometimethe week before last week

Benjamin comes up to me with on of his little playmoble pirates and angels him aggressively towards and says in a gruff little pirate voice: " Give me all your stuff or I'll rob you without even asking!"

Quote of the day- Monday October 19th 2009

So usually when we have pasta with meatballs we make the meat balls from ground turkey.
This time we had meatballs made from ground beef....
"Mummy I don't like the turkey today."
"It's not turkey baby it's beef."
"What is beef made from Mummy?"
"Beef is cow. Beef is meat from a cow"
Ben thinks a moment, takes another bite, thinks some more.
"I don't like cow balls Mummy."
o_O

Unbelievable cuteness!

I had to break from the sensory camp updates to share the cutest thing. (But, actually it is related to sensory camp.) When all the children were sitting on the green carpet after their greeting and lesson when we were ready to head to the teaching garden the facilitator would say "If you're wearing red you may go and get ready........If you're wearing stripes you may go and get ready...." and so on and so forth.
Well yesterday after camp Ben was sitting over his open car box, with all his little cars saying "If you are yellow you can come out." then taking all the yellow cars out. "If you are green you can come out" and then taking out all the green ones.
He did this until the entire car box was empty. It was cuter than I can describe.

Quote of the day- Sunday July 12 2009

Context: Ben was asked what country something was in. He said he didn't know. I asked him what countries he did know and he claimed not to know any, so I asked him what country he lived in and he (of course) said Canada. Then I asked him what other countries there were:

Australia.
Africa.
Poland.
April.

Quote of the day May 16th 2009

I am sitting at the computer in my bath robe (What? it's Saturday morning! I'm allowed)
And Ben says to Andrew while motioning at me:
"Ah Mummy, what elegance! What style!"
So we of course erupt into laughter, and ask him when he got that from, and he informs us it's from a video about snow groomers.
Ah, I'm so blessed.