Brendanisms

Here are a few quotes from Brendan...

-Brendan is all about rhyming lately. At the supper table the other day he shouted out: "Eating mud...yucky as a tucky ducky!"

-Brendan loves making up numbers when he's measuring something. The other day he was measuring the wall and he announced, "It's 40 1/2 teen!"

-Brendan is going through a phase where he'll find a phrase he likes and use it exhaustively for a couple days, then move on the to next. The ones that have made the rounds? "Hot diggity dog!" "Winner winner chicken dinner!" and "Hey woodchuckers! Stop chucking my wood!"

-In the middle of a mild tantrum one day, after I had quietly asked him to calm down, he turned to me and exclaimed, "No! I don't want to calm down!" And then he continued on with the tantrum. (Cathy...I knew you'd love that one!)

-After one of the large snowstorms we had, our walk-behind snowblower started acting funny. Brad hauled the thing inside to warm it up so we could take a look at it. In order to get to one of the belts we needed to look at we had to turn it over. After a couple minutes we noticed some gas leaking onto the plastic we had laid on the floor. Brad exclaimed, "Oh, shit!" and we hurriedly turned it back over, then glanced over at Brendan, who had all of his tools out and was fixing his wheelbarrow in the same fashion we were fixing the snowblower. Brendan hadn't seemed to notice anything, so we just cleaned up our mess and let Brad's exclamation slide, figuring Brendan hadn't heard it. A few minutes later, as Brendan was still "fixing" his wheelbarrow, he screamed out, "OH SHIT!" and turned it quickly over. Guess he had heard us after all...

-and finally...tonight Brendan and I were making fruit smoothies to go with supper. After we had all the fruit and yogurt blended I announced that I was going to add some frozen spinach, like Aunt Jill does. Brendan started whining that he didn't want me to. I replied that we wouldn't even be able to taste it. Brendan turned to me and shrieked, "Well I DO because I have a really big tongue...see!" And he stuck out his tongue at me. [I would like to add that I added some anyway (and subsequently had to chase him around the house trying to get him to try it...and he ended up slurping down two glasses and finishing both Brad and I's. (Great idea, Aunt Jill!)]