Common Courtesy

Cannon at breakfast: "Mom, I don't want you to sit here. I want dad to sit here."

Molly: "Cannon, sometimes that makes Mommy feel bad when you say you don't want her to sit by you."

Cannon, seeing Molly give Noah some yogurt snacks: "Mom, can I have some yogrit treats too?"

Molly: "Can you be nice to Mommy?"

Cannon: "Mommy, will you PLEASE not sit next to me."

Too sick for school

Cannon opens his bedroom door and walks into the living room, dragging his two blankets with him as he always does in the morning when he wakes up.

"Good morning, Cannon!" Molly greets him.

"Hi Mom."

"How do you feel this morning?"

"Good!"

"We better get ready for school!"

"I'm sick."

Word Associations

Cannon has a good sense of word association...

For instance, as we pulled into the airport on our way to Texas he asked:

"Are we going to stay in the ho-show-and-tell tonight?"

"What was that?"

"Are we going to stay in the HO-SHOW-AND-TELL tonight?!?"

When we got back he asked if he could take one of his toys to school for "ho-show-and-tell." Apparently the word works well in either situation!

Today was "It's a Small World" day at school where kids got to talk about their heritage or culture and dress up accordingly. We thought it would be fun for Cannon to talk about some of his Cannon family ancestors so we told him about Captain George Cannon, who some say was a pirate, and George Q. Cannon the pioneer. So, Cannon was all dressed up as a pirate/cowboy and I was quizzing him on his grandfathers...

"Who was your pirate Grandpa?"

"Captain Jack Sparrow!"

"Who was your pioneer grandpa?"

"George Q. Barbeque!"

Prison break!

Fortunately we caught the incident before the inmate could escape. His accomplice was sentenced to a doubly long timeout. He is now on parole, having sworn to never use scissors on anything but paper, and only with adult supervision.

The fire extinguisher does not appear to have been used as an instrument of the attempted escape.

Cannon got a message from Santa

Merry Christmas from Beijing

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Mom taught me fun new game... It's called "The Potty Game" and I like it a lot, because, like my mom, I get a kick out of potty humor. So here's how it goes. One of us lies on the ground knees up (the potty) and the other sits on that persons knees (the flusher). The potty person picks a finger that flushes the toilet, but does not reveal it to the flusher. The flusher pushes down fingers until he guesses the correct finger, at which time he is dropped to the ground (flushed) much to his delight! It is a fantastic game.... you should try it!