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Sunday, March 09, 2003 ( 10:39 PM ) Lostcheerio Three Benny anecdotes: 1. We were playing Crash Bandicoot as it pleases us to do in the evening and I said to Benny "At 8:00 we are going upstairs to take a bath. See that clock? When the clock says 8-0-0 we are going upstairs. Okay? Say Okay Mama." And he said, "Okay Mama." It's a digital clock, the one on the cable box. And then a couple seconds later he says, "Seventeen more minutes!" And I look up at the clock on the cable box and it says 7:43. Creepy. 2. Benny was in the tub and the plug had been pulled and the water was draining out while he was still playing. I was washing my face and then putting on moisturizer in the mirror and Benny said, "All done water" And I said, "Oh, is the water all gone?" And he didn't answer me. So I finished slapping on moisturizer and then I turned to look and he was sitting there in the tub and he said very carefully, "Yes." Which is odd because he never says "Yes" and I looked down at what he was looking at and he had spelled the word, "Yes" on the side of the tub with his sponge letters. 3. Benny's new thing is punctuation. He loves punctuation. When he reads, he has to stop every time there is punctuation and say "LOOK IT'S A COMMA" etc. So i am teaching him what the harder ones are like apostrophe, ellipse, etc. And in Ten Apples Up On Top it says Three... Three... I see. I see. He loves that page and so tonight he says, "THAT'S A LOT OF PERIODS! Oh, three periods is" and then he can't think of the word 'ellipse' so he looks at me and I say "Three periods is an ellipse. An ellipse signifies an abandoned utterance." Because it tickles me to say silly things like that to him... and he says, "Ellipse is a light." And I'm like... Okay. And I say, "What do you mean, and ellipse is a light?" And he turns the page around a quarter turn and says, "Red, orange, and green." Which is what he calls the colors of a traffic light. # |
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