Asher conversations...

Me: Asher, get your fingers out of your nose.
Ash: (smiles)
Me: What do you do with the boogers when you get them out?
Ash: (smiles some more) Throw them on the ground.

Oh. So. Gross.

Asher conversations...

Quite possibly the cutest thing I've ever heard...

As we are driving:

Ash: Dad is fun.
Me: He is a fun guy.
Ash: He's a really fun dad.
Me: We're lucky to have him.
Ash: Yeah. Let's keep him forever, ok?

And also as we were driving home from daycare and he is eating his treat (yes, I butter him up by bringing him a treat to daycare every night... its our secret):

Ash: Mom, I saved you a skittle.
Me: Thanks buddy.
Ash: You know why?
Me: Why?
Ash: Because I love you so very much.

What can I say? He might be the cutest kid E.V.E.R.

Asher conversations...

This one happened today while we were driving:

Ash: mom, is sharing a choice?
Me: Yes it is
Ash: so I can choose to share or not to share?
Me: That's right.
Ash: maybe I only want to share a little
Me: Well sharing is a good way to make new friends.
Ash: I'm going to share today and make lots of new best friends!

Asher conversations...

"I look like a jerk."

This is what Asher said the other night while looking at his soaped up hair in the bathtub. Usually we look at it and laugh about how funny it looks.

It was hilarious. He's said it a few other times. If I put something on him to wear that he doesn't like, then he'll say "I look like a jerk."

He also says, "You get what you get and don't through a fit. Right mom?" They must say that at daycare.

He likes to be formal sometimes... so he'll tell me something I'm wearing is cute. So I say thanks, and then he wants me to tell him something of his is cute. And then he says, "Oh, Thank You!" It's funny how he really wants to act adult.

Asher conversations...

Asher says WHAT? after everything I say.

He acts like he can't hear you and after everything you say he says "what?". And then you repeat what you said and he still says "what?".

I honestly think he just needs to digest what you are saying and think about it for a minute, and to earn that minute he throws out the "what?".

The bad thing is he does it so much that sometimes I can't take it anymore. So I'll say, "I know you heard me." Or something like, "what did you think I said?"

So this was the conversation with his dad...

Tom: You need to clean up your room little man.
Ash: grr... blah... grr. (mumbling something incoherent)
Tom: What?
Ash: I know you heard me.

Speeding ticket...

I got pulled over for speeding today. Asher was surprisingly underwhelmed by the whole situation. I thought he'd be so excited to see the policeman.

After he got my info and went to write the ticket, Ash was over it and ready to leave. I told him we had to wait for the ticket.

Ash: Will he bring two tickets? One for you and one for me?
Me: No. You don't get one. Just me.
Ash: Oh. Well, I can't clean up your mess momma.

Touché

He has been having a hard time cleaning lately and I always remind him that myself and his teachers can't always clean up after him.

Asher conversations...

Asher likes to drop a few clean expletives from time to time...

He often says "oh my freaking heck"...

I cringe, then laugh.

His neighborhood friend Christian was over this weekend to play. He doesn't talk a ton yet, although he is almost four... for some reason this equates to Asher as him being younger than him. He kept calling him "sweetie."

"oh, sweetie..."

It was hilarious.

Speaking of hilarious...

another funny thing he says (and this is when he is being sarcastic)... "that's fabulous".

"Did you remember my spiderman?"
no...
"that's fabulous."

Asher conversations...

I figured out Ash loves Lime Rickies from Artic Circle, so one day we rode my bike to get pizza for dinner and on the way home I pulled into Artic Circle...

Ash: Are we getting ice cream?
Me: No... I thought you might want a lime ricky...
Ash: Oh. My. Gosh. I'M GETTING A LIME RICKY!!!

Yes, he actually yelled it.

It's the little things that make him so excited.

Asher conversations...

We can all share the road. (referring to the boys motorcycles next door and his four wheeler)

Asher conversations...

A new favorite:

Ash: Guess what...
Me: What?
Ash: Chicken butt!
Ash: Guess what...
Me: What?
Ash: Chicken poo!
Ash: Guess what...
Me: What?
Ash: Poop station!

I'm not sure how the last one came around... other than he messed it up with chicken poo once. But now it's part of the routine.

Tom also taught Asher to call the dogs next door (who always bark at us) douchers. Then he couldn't remember what Tom told him to say, so he says "what was that... mediums? The dogs are mediums?"

Once again... not sure what connection there is... but that's what you get with him. Off the wall and funny.

He's also learning to say love you on his own. I never realized that he pretty much only said it when I said "say love ya dad..." or something to that effect. But then out of the blue while I was dressing him after his bath he hugged me and said "love ya mom". It was an awesome moment. No prompts... just all on his own. One of those moments that makes all the work completely worthwhile.

Asher conversations

Randomly stated (in gangsta style):

You wanna know what I do?
I do scissors EVERY night.

Asher conversations...

As I'm cleaning up Tom's breakfast (which he forgot):
Ash: What are you doing?
Me: I'm cleaning up daddy's breakfast.
Ash: Why?
Me: Because he forgot.
Ash: That sillybum.

Asher story

He and his friend Ella had been dumping water bottles in the yard. This is how he explained it later:

We got in the boats (sleds)
And then we dumped the water.
And then we got out.
And then WE TALKED ABOUT IT.
And then we dumped some more.
And then we run to get more water.

He is in funniest stage. So hilarious.

Asher conversations

Ash: are you sad I'm growing big?
Me: no. I'm excited for you to get big so I can teach you things like how to drive a car and see you get married.
Ash: and like how to use scissors?
Me: yes and how to use scissors.

Asher conversations

Oh. My. Gosh.

One of Ash's new favorite sayings. He actually told me:

Oh. My. Gosh. You are driving me crazy.

*blush* Can't imagine where he got that from :)

Sometimes he mixes words up and it ends up being pretty funny:

Frisbee = roast beef (you like this roast beef?)
Yetty = wedding (I smell like a wedding)

He's so funny. I just laugh.

Asher conversations...

Ash has been saying "moochie moochie" for a long time. I'm not sure where it came from, or what it means, but he thinks its hilarious. We pretend to whisper in each others ears and he always says "moochie moochie" and then laughs. Or we'll say it long and loud... "moooochie moooochie."

The other day he was jumping off the couch and onto his dad. He kept yelling at me to watch. Then he said, "Are you ready? Yeah. You're ready." All matter of fact.

And there are also these long stories... they always involve a "boom" or "poop". Like this:

There was this shark.
And the shark was very big.
And the shark went "boom."
And he had these sharp teeth (pinching fingers together in the air)
And he tried to bite me with the teeth.
And I went boom. (gesturing like he punched it).
And I fell down (as he falls on the floor).

Or I'll ask him what he wants to eat and he'll think about it for a minute and say:
"poop lasagne"
"hamburger poop"

The conversations are never boring.

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A few of my favorite sayings for the moment:

When Tom gets home Ash runs to open the door and says "Glad to meet you." EVERY NIGHT.

"What I do?" Any time we laugh at him.

"I don't care you do it." Saying its ok for me to do something I asked him about (I must say I don't care A LOT when he asks me stuff).

Dentist = "Cleaner" As in, "Mom, we going to the cleaner?"

A daycare update...

Ash got a new teacher in December and it has made a world of difference at daycare. She is great. She loves him. He's ok with her. Not totally in love yet like he was with Elshia.

They started a superstar of the week program and Ash got to be the first Superstar! Each kid has a little paper cookie taped to the door and every time they do something good their cookie moves up a little. The first one to the top for the week is Superstar. The Superstar gets to always be first in line, make all the choices, get special privileges, and bring the movie for movie day. Ash chose Ice Age 3 and he was so excited to take it (but only with the understanding that it was still his and he got to bring it back home).

He also doesn't use his binky at daycare, which is an awesome first step to getting rid of it.

At old daycare they let the kids get a treat each day when they left. Ash loved picking out a tootsie roll or whatever each night. At new daycare they don't do this... and Ash was VERY disappointed. So I started bringing him a treat each night. Every night he runs up to me and says "What you have in your car?" And if I don't tell him... he gets in the car and starts climbing over the seat into the front to try to see what it is. I also use this treat as a bribe to keep the binky out on our way home. So far car rides and naps are must have binky times. Most days he will take the bribe, but occasionally he has missed the binky so much, he'll opt for the binky over the treat.

He still misses old daycare. We were talking about birthday parties (since Elle turned 2!). Ash wanted to know when his birthday party was. I told him it was in the summer... he looks at me and says, "but it will snow tomorrow!" (with total sadness). So he knows summer is a little ways away. He told me he really wanted Kemper (his best buddy from old daycare) to come to his party. I told him that would be fine. He says, "but what if there is no room?" So I had to assure him we would make room for Kemper.

Ash has also learned just about nursery rhyme and starts randomly singing them. He's got ABC's almost down. He belts out John Jacob Jingle-heimer Schmidt all the time. My favorite is You Are My Sunshine. One day at daycare he got a prize for singing "loud and clear." They told me he loves to sing.

So... daycare is better. We're surviving the change. Ash still doesn't have a best buddy like Kemper, but just in the last two days he started talking about Matthew. Hopefully Matthew is a nice sweet boy who likes to break out into the lollipop song and dance around just like Kemper did...

So much personality

This might be one of those "mom" things. Where I find this fascinating, but no one else will. But Ash has gotten so animated lately. Full of these funny gestures and tones of voice. It cracks me up. Here is a video that kind of shows it. I just laughed when I saw it (but its probably only funny to me... and maybe Tom).

Asher conversations...

A new favorite conversation we have multiple times a day...
(another mimic of us)

Ash: How was your work today?
Me: Good. Thank you for asking.
Me: How was daycare today?
Ash: Good. Thank you for asking!

We go through work, school, daycare, playing at home... Ash asks it a few times a day just so I'll ask him and he can say "thank you for asking." For some reason he finds that conversation very adult and very fun.

I've learned a lesson though... now I try to say more than just good and what I actually did... that way he'll copy me and start giving me some actual info on what he did that day. Instead of just 'good'.