Curly Straight

TJ: Blow a bubble.

Mama complies.

TJ: Do it again.

Mama complies.

Repeat 17,000 times.

Throw in "I want to touch it."

Mama complies.

TJ touches it and then runs screaming across the house.

Comes back a second later.

"Do it again."

Mama: It's near your right hand.

TJ, looking at his left hand: I want my right hand to be on this arm!

Mama, talking to Daddy in car: "GGG* (our doctor) said that teething cannot cause fever, but I think that's why she had the fever the other day."

TJ from back seat: "Mommy, call him Doctor GGG, not GGG."

*names changed

TJ calls our bathing suits swimming lessons.

Looking at me wearing my bathing suit: "You got your swimming lessons on, Mama?"

TJ: That man needs to sit down.

Mama: Well, don't worry about it.

TJ: He needs to sit down.

Mama: You can tell him.

Man walks outside the pizza parlor and TJ starts to follow him.

Mama: Don't follow him outside.

TJ: Why?

Mama: He's a stranger.

Man walks back in and TJ looks at him for a good 40 seconds.

TJ: He's a stranger?

Mama: Yes. You can talk to him now because I am right here.

TJ: He might eat us.

TJ just asked me if Bebe has a mommy and daddy.

"Well, he did, but they are gone."

"Why?"

"People only stay around for certain amount of time."

"Why?"

"Then they go to heaven."

And that seemed to appease him.

Mama: TJ, what would you like for dinner?

TJ: Chips.

We have visitors in the house - unwanted visitors - in the form of mice.

I am petrified of them and they skeeb me out.

TJ was walking down the stairs yesterday in front of me and he said: "Don't worry Mama, I'm right behind you and I'll protect you from the mouse."

AWWWW!