Oliver-isms

My little carb lover:

Oliver was taking his time eating dinner last night. After an hour, and what seemed to be quite a bit of food, I asked him if his tummy was getting full. He looked at me with a furrowed brow and said "my tummy never too full for cornbread". That's my boy! :)

My little negotiator:

In response to me telling him about me going to SL this weekend, Oliver tries to make his way on the plane with: "I come with you. That be fun? You not go without me?" Sad! :( I'm going to miss this little guy like crazy!

My little truth teller:

Lately Oliver and I have been having lots of discussions about what it means to tell the truth and to keep your promises. Oliver loves to have our approval, so he has been so excited for us to praise him for telling the truth. From reading our blog, you may know that Oliver's favorite movie is Cars. He could watch this movie day in and day out, over and over again if I would let him. However, I try to curb too much television and often our TV goes on strike and won't turn on for a few days at a time. :) We hadn't watched any television for a few days, so I let him watch part of Cars while we ate our pizza for dinner tonight. We were watching the part where Lightening McQueen is headed to California to race Chick and The King for the Piston Cup. Mac (his driver) is tired, he wants to pull over and take a break, but Lightning McQueen wants to get to Cali first so he can have Dinoco all to himself. Lightning McQueen has just promised Mac he will stay up with him all night to keep him company and then he falls asleep. Oliver looks over at me and says "Lightning McQueen not a truth teller? He not keep his promise?" I'm blown away and don't really know how to respond. Is he crushed thinking that his hero is a liar...or is he happy thinking that if his hero is not a truth teller, maybe he doesn't need to be either. Hmmm...I quickly attempt to make a teaching experience out of it and tell him that Lightning McQueen learns to be a truth teller in the end and he helps everyone in the town and everyone likes McQueen very much. I don't know if it worked, he was still trying to wrap his brain around this as was putting him to bed tonight. Hopefully, this doesn't turn into anything negative; I'll let you know how it turns out!