Here is a (very small) snippet of a conversation in the car today:
Sam: (holding a Disney Monorail sticker that he found) Can we
puh-lease go to Disney in a 1000 days?
Me: I bet we can come close to making that happen if I have a 1000 days.
Sam: I want to ride the monorail again. And I'll swim in the pool with the water slide, but Jake is too little.
Me: Well Jake swam in it last time!
Sam: Well OK, I guess he can swim too. But not with me.
Jake: I love to swim! Can I use my inner tube in the ocean?
Me: Why yes you can! Do you want to go to the beach?
Both boys:
YESSSS!!!!!
(It's
SOOOOO easy to manipulate at this point in their lives!)
Me: Would you rather go to the beach or to Disney?
Sam: I would like the beach. I mean Disney. Can't we do both?
Jake: DISNEY! OCEAN!
Me: What was your most favorite part about Disney?
Sam: Staying with Mimi and Pop Pop. In their new camper, they have a shower in the
back of the camper! And there's a big glass that I will put my clothes behind.
Me: Did they tell you that's where your clothes go?
Sam: No, I just know that's where they will go. And they showed me the couch that folds out into MY bed!
Jake: I wanna go into outer space.
(I must interject here that Jake is
constantly chattering back there, and I try to answer him all the time, but he's in his own little world and is only interested in our conversation when it's HIS idea... so it's really hard to give the full effect here!)
Sam: Pop Pop has an airplane.
Jake: Can it go to outer space?
Sam: Yes. It can. Pop and I will sit in the front. Jake and Mommy and Bo and Jen and Mimi can sit in the back (sorry Dad - guess you'll be working!?).
Me: Will
Pop's plane hold all of us?
Sam: Yes. There's two seats in the front (he's holding his fingers up), and 1, 2, 3, 4 seats in the back. Mimi might just stay home!
Me: That sounds a bit crowded. Maybe Mommy can stay home with Mimi?
Jake: Can I fly into those clouds? Can I fly to the moon? Uncle Bo can take me! Will Pop Pop?
Sam: I think we can go to the beach AND to Disney for a 1000 days (yep, it switched from
in a 1000 days to
for a 1000 days!)
Me: That would take a lot of money.
Sam: Well, I have a piggy bank. Do we pay now or in Disney?
Me: We would pay the people at Disney.
Sam: Well I can just take my piggy bank with me! I just want to go with Mimi and Pop Pop. Mommy and Jake and Daddy can stay home.
Me: Can I at least go with you? I love Disney!
Sam: Well.... if you take your camper, you can go.
Jake: When do we go to the beach? Is there sand at the beach? When can we
gooooo????
This was probably only a couple of miles of conversation.... I'm thinking I need those DVDs back!!! But I must say... I LOVE hearing those little minds work - and they certainly do! Sam is constantly calculating different things/situations. Jake just says what he's thinking... EVERYTHING that he is thinking!!!!