Do You Speak Toddler?
So I have this three year old. Don’t try to tell him he’s three though, because he will assure you (As he assures me multiple times a day) that he is ‘a really big man’ and also, ‘really, really handsome.’ He might also tell you he is going to be a priest and a daddy, and that he might have babies some day, but not in his tummy because he is ‘a real man.’
If real men spend 90% of their waking hours asking questions, telling on their younger brothers, and fashioning straight objects into weapons, then he is Mr. Marlboro himself. I’ll let him do the rest of the talking just to prove it to you.
At bedtime, after somebody got to stay up late to watch the first half of the Notre Dame game:
Joey: (sobbing) John Paul is cryyyyyying.
JP: (indistinguishable moaning)
Joey: (in a piercing wail) He is really crying and I can’t like that noise!
While driving home one evening:
Jenny: Buddy, do you want to stay up with Daddy and watch the football game for a little bit?
Joey: Well I’m really sleepy. Maybe just a little bit of football and a hot bath. Can I get a hot bath? And a drink?
Jenny: Would you like a cigar, too?
Joey: Just a hot bath, Mommy
Upon discovering the requisite Millenial tramp stamp mommy sports on her unfortunate lower back:
Joey: Why you got a flower on your booty, Mommy?
Jenny: I made a silly decision when I was younger and now I have to live with it.
Joey: Daddy doesn’t have a flower on his back
Jenny: Nope, Daddy was not quite as silly as I was when he was a kid
Joey: Daddies don’t have flowers, because they have penises
Jenny: …
Wandering through the family room, unaware he is being observed:
Joey: All we have to do is get our SHINE ON!
Jenny: What?
Joey: A big giant guard
Jenny: Excuse me?
Joey: I got away on a telescope
Jenny: … sips coffee
Looking very concerned upon waking:
Joey: Are my teeth grayish, Mommy?
Jenny: What?
Joey: Just a yittle bit gray, do you think? Maybe if I sleep with a toothbrush…
Busting into our room at o’dark thirty:
Joey: (flings open door, slamming it into the wall) Good morning! I’m ready for gluten free pancakes!
Dave: (blink, grumble, snort)
Joey: All you have to do is get your shine on. (Can you guess what his favorite song is?)
Jenny: Are you real?
Joey: I’m really hungry for gluten free pancakes
Dragging an empty Pellegrino box through the living room at 8 am:
Joey: We just need some more wine. To get on the airplane!
Jenny: …
Joey: Everybody needs more wine!
Jenny: …
While driving through far-eastern rural as all get out northern Colorado to visit friends:
Joey: What I’m seeing out there, Mommy?
Jenny: Llamas. Those are llamas, they have nice fur that makes sweaters
Joey: (silence)
Jenny: They’re from Peru. Aren’t they cool looking?
Joey: Do llamas do bad things to people, Mommy?
Jenny: …
Boasting about his newfound ability to stand and deliver at the potty:
Joey: I pee like a man. I’m a real big man!
Jenny: Yep
Joey: Like Peyton Manning. He pees like a man. These are his undies.
Jenny: …
He is a delightful, challenging, confounding, and hilarious little housemate. I just wish I could figure out the source of his rich interior monologue. Because I’ll have one of whatever he’s having.
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18 Comments
Kendra Tierney
I love that Joey has Peyton Manning’s underpants. It must be part of that United Way program Peyton Manning does .
Laura Pearl
Oh my gosh, that SNL skit with Peyton Manning…that is a family fave at this house. So funny!
Laura Pearl
I was missing those toddler conversations so much, when my boys went and got all grown up. But God made it all better: He gave me grandkids!
There is nothing as fun as having the kind of conversations you’re having with your little man. 🙂
Melinda Ott
Oh my goodness, this post made me laugh! I have a 4.5 yo girl and a 3 yo boy, so we have similar conversations in our house….
Sarah O'C
You need some Llama llama books for that boy…he won’t think llamas do bad things to people, he’ll want to be like one! 🙂
Mary
Lol
Beth (A Mom's Life)
I love to read the silly things little kids say! Makes my heart happy!
Ana
Holy hilarious! He is the funniest! We neeeeed to have a play date if you guys are all ever here in the Bend, the girls would have a blast with your boys!
Jocelyne
I have a three-year-old too, and he and Joey sound a lot alike! I too am often rendered speechless. 🙂
Michele Chronister
Hahaha!!! Are you guys cool with an arranged marriage with our three year old? Cause these two would be HILARIOUS together!
Paige Kellerman
Yep, yep. Got lots of that going on over here. Today, the twins told me they didn’t like me, then begged me to stay. I’m torn.
Katie
I haven’t laughed that hard in ages. AGES, I tell you!! Oh goodness. Thank you. And thank Joey!
Francine
He is too funny! I hope you share more!
Elizabeth Anne
The Peyton manning comment is the best! So is the hot bath but I am shocked he refused the cigar! what a darling!
Kris
It’s so great that you record this. Our 3rd son spoke very early and we spent multiple years with him just cracking us up all the time! He would say things like a 30-year old man would say and it would be hilarious coming out of the mouth of a two or three year old. And now it’s all gone out of my head, except for the memory of how funny he was.
Lisa
This is too funny!! Love his precious comments.
Evie & her cousin request “Shine On” so many times each family gathering, my dad recently asked if any of us had heard of the sequel “Shine Off”- 3 minutes of silence. 😉
Jenn
This had me dying laughing!! He is too funny!
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I almost chocked! hilarious!!
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