Out of the mouths of babes

My own my... the language explosion provides endless hours of amusement. Liam has become much more verbally adept in the last couple months, and the following are some excerpts of conversations we've had...

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On Easter morning (when we woke up to over a foot of lake-effect snow), Garvin said he had to go shovel the driveway again (he'd shoveled 3 or 4 times while it was snowing the day before). Liam and I were at the breakfast table at the time. Liam turned to my tummy and said "Jiu-Jai come out Mama tummy help Liam shovel". It was the longest phrase he had uttered up to that point (still one of the longest). Apparently this fetus is expected to pull its own weight with household chores as soon as it vacates my uterus. He repeats this phrase almost daily, probably because it almost always makes me laugh. For a while, he kept saying it directly into my belly button.

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On Mother's Day, instead of a card, I had the following before-church conversation with Liam while in the bathroom:

Me: Liam, time to pee potty.
Liam: Liam play penis?
Me: Fine, play penis AFTER pee potty, let Mama wipe first.
Liam pees in the toilet, lets me wipe him off, then very cheerfully asks: Liam play penis?
Me: yes, you can explore your penis for a minute but we have to get to church
Liam: Liam play penis church?
Me: No, do NOT play with your penis at church.
Liam: [big sigh] FINE. Liam no play penis church. Liam play penis home. [walks out of bathroom looking mildly dejected]

This is made a bit more amusing by the fact that our church starts "Our Whole Lives" (sex education based upon our principles) in Kindergarten... Liam isn't yet THREE. My kid is advanced ;) Clare is thrilled, of course [sarcasm], that he taught Willow that boys have penises. In their house, girls have "girlie bits". Ah, the joys of not being a hermit, right?

~~~~~ fast forward to a few minutes ago~~~~~~~

Garvin and Liam are play with Duplo blocks on the floor. Garvin, being a science teacher and techie wannabe, defaults to "geek" setting generally (see post below of what he left on the computer screen the other day). Liam is building "castles" (random tower stacks). Garvin built a Windows OS pointer, pretty much to scale if Liam were a desktop icon. Liam was so enthusiastic about this that he immediately broke it, of course. Garvin made a dejected face, Liam said "Sorry Daddy." Then Liam handed the blocks back to Garvin and said, loud and clear enough that I'm glad the neighbors aren't TOO close now that the windows are open "Daddy make porn!"... he meant POINTER... really, he meant POINTER...

Let's just hope he doesn't repeat THAT phrase while ignoring the "no playing with your penis in church" rule we discussed earlier.