Kidspeak- A Conversation with Ardyn

walked to the bank this afternoon, and Ardyn insisted on walking while Marek rode in the stroller, so we took the umbrella stroller.It was nice, probably 82 degrees. Warm in the sun, but perfect in the shade. We walked to the bank, did our business and walked right home. We were probably three blocks from home when Ardyn says "Whew, I am so tired, I just can't even go one more step. I need a drink really badly." and I say "We are almost home, you can have a drink and then we can play outside for a bit before naptime."

Ardyn says "can we just find a house where someone we know lives and get a drink of water." Me, "um, no Ardyn. Most people we know are at work today, and we are only 3 blocks from home." Ardyn "I can't even SEE our house."

Pauses. "Mommy, who lives there?" I tell her and she says what are their full names, and I tell her and she says "see, we know them, let's stop for a break and some nice water to drink." Oy.

We are less than a block from home now. I explain that we are not stopping anywhere. We are two houses away, then about 20 feet from our driveway and she says "Mom, I can't do it, it's like a whole three miles."

Apparently she got my athletic ability and desire to exercise. You may laugh, but I am the kid who used to cry in Kindergarten when we did those "field-day" track meets because they told us we had to do one running event and one field event. I HATED running. I always have. Always. Everything in my body and mind is against running. In the end, I always did two field events. Not sure how it happened, but I was stubborn. I usually ended up throwing the frisbee, or doing the long jump or the softball throw. And when I was in Jr high I did track stats and even did track stats for the entire Indian Valley Conference meets.... anything to NOT have to run. :)

Ardyn again

Ardyn's gems of the day...

"mommy why is grandma deb at the police? Police are scary!"

"this dog wants a treat. He needs some food. Let's make him a T-Bone mistake! (steak. Lol)"

When talking about getting up at night to go potty instead of wearing a diaper to bed... "yeah mom, when it's in the night, and I hear myself peeing in my bed, I can get up and go to the potty! " me- "what's it sound like when you pee in your pull up?" Ardyn "it's like a loud whistle in my teeth!"

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That's ArdynSpeak!

ArdynSpeak

Some of Ardyn's recent wisdom...

"mommy look at Marek's poopy! It's big and round! Like Santa's head!!!"

"Mommy, why does Santa have a backpack?"

"When you die, your belly is cutted open and your heart falls out." I said "where did you hear that?!" she said "Kelsea Klingenberg telled me!"

And the next day "when you die and your belly cuts open and your heart falls out, they put another heart in, an extra case heart." (extra case means "just in case" in Ardyn speak, FYI.)