Cute Connorisms

Connor is more and more chatty these days and ever more able to voice his interesting thoughts and questions. Lately, for instance he has been asking a lot about being a grown-up. Now Jamie frequently, rather poignantly, says that he doesn't ever want to be a grown-up and if he is wants to go back to being a kid. Fine with us. But Connor has been asking lately when he will be a grown-up. Jamie tells him he has to be a teenager and then a young adult first, and then we say 16 years. Then, in the car yesterday Connor announced, "I want to be a grown-up NOW!!" Sarah asked him why and he said in his little 3-year-old voice: "Because I want to drink beer!"

Another, rather more sweet one, came at a playground yesterday. He had a great time, but it was also a little fraught. He is at the stage where he can do more things, climb things, get higher move faster, and of course he wants to so he can keep up with Jamie, but he is also not sure of himself yet and so has periodic bursts of anxiety. As a result he wanted to go in the harness swing where he felt safer. As I swung him higher and higher he laughed with delight and said, in that same 3-year-old voice, "Daddy! I feel like a snowflake!"