Brody sings an abbreviated version of his (currently) favorite song…
Ring around the roosey
Ashes
All fall down
- Me: You are such a big boy for swimming in the pool with just floaties on your arms!
- Brody: Yeah, I are big.
- Me: OK buddy, you go back to sleep and Daddy has to go to work now.
- Brody: (pause) I wanna get big.
- Me: You want to get big?
- Brody: Yeah
- Me: Why do you want to get big?
- Brody: I get big and go to work with daddy.
- Me: Ha! One day you'll be bigger than me and then you go to work and Daddy stays home.
- Brody: (long pause) ... I don't wanna get big.
don't wanna be three
- Me: Brody... who's birthday is it next week?
- Brody: Boady's!!
- Me: Yeah!! You're gonna be three!!
- Brody: No! I don't wanna be three...
- Me: Then what do you want to be?
- Brody: Red
early wake-ups are tough
- Me, at 530am: Brody, you're up way too early. You need to go back to sleep.
- Brody: No, I don't wanna go back to sleep.
- Me: It's still night time.
- Brody: No, it's not still night time.
- Me: I have to get ready for work and mom's still sleeping... you need to go back to sleep, too.
- Brody: Where you going?
- Me: I have to go to work.
- Brody: You go to work?
- Me: yup
- Brody: .... I miss you.
- Me: You're breakin' my heart kid.
What's he trying to tell me?
- Me: (while reading 'Where The Wild Things Are' at bedtime) Brody... What smells good to eat?
- Brody: uuuuuuum... Popcorn!! ... and?
- Me: hamburgers!
- Brody: yeah!! ... and?
- Me: French fries!
- Brody: oh yeah, dats yummy! ... and... pizza!!
- Me: and what else smells yummy?
- Brody: uuumm... BEERS!!
gotta pay the bills
- Mom: Brody, daddy will be gone tomorrow at work. [Mel was trying to get him prepared for me to not be at home after the weekend is over]
- Brody: Nope... daddy at home tomorrow.
- Mom: But, daddy has to work so that we have money.
- Brody: Noooo... daddy don't go to work.
- Mom: Without money we won't have any food.
- Brody: No, daddy no work.
- Mom: Without money we won't have a house to live in.
- Brody: Daddy stay home.
- Mom: Without money we won't be able to have any clothes to wear, or a car to drive around in.
- Brody: Noooooope! Daddy home tomorrow.
- Mom: Daddy has to work so you can have toys.
- Brody: .... Okaaaay.
in memoriam
Good: Brody brought home his first pet today.
Bad: It also died today.
Consolation: It was a rollie pollie bug.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you donate to the Future Entomologists Of America Fund.
