Me: "When Sally is done with her bath, we'll have some milk and cookies."
Samuel: "OK, but I want the rectangle cookies, not the oreos."
Me: "I only have the oreos."
Samuel: "I want the rectangle cookies."
Me: "Huh?"
Samuel: "Watch my finger, Mom. Watch. They are like this: pssh, pssh, pssh, pssh (he makes a rectangle shape in the air with his finger) and they are the color of oreos, but they are not oreos."
Me: "I have no idea what you are talking about. Do we buy them or do I make them?"
Samuel: "Uuummm, both."
Me: "Both?"
Samuel: "Yeah, I fink so."
After about five minutes of this, I decide to get Sally involved.
Me: "Sally, do you know what he is talking about?"
Samuel: "Sally, watch my finger. It's a cookie and it's a rectangle and it goes like this - watch my finger - pssh, pssh, pssh, pssh - and it's the color of an oreo but it's not an oreo. I want one of those."
Sally: "What is it called?"
Samuel: "I don't know. It's a rectangle."
Sally: "Yeah, you said that. Does it have the cream filling?"
Samuel: "Yeah, but you can't see it. It's inside but you can't see it. It goes like this - pssh, pssh, pssh"
Sally: "I get it - it's a rectangle. Do you buy it at the store?"
Samuel: "Yeah."
Sally: "Samuel, we have no idea what you are talking about. Just eat the oreos."
Me: "Tell you what - the next time we are at the store, you can show me what you mean, ok?"
Samuel: "OK, cause we had them a few days ago, but I can't remember the week. I don't remember what week that was."
Me: (the light bulb went on over my head) "Hey, do you mean a HoHo?"
Samuel: "Yeah! I want one of those!"
Sally: "Those aren't rectangles - it's a circle."
Four minutes later: (seriously - I'm not even kidding)
Samuel: "Mommy, can I have the chocolate where you bite it, but you can't use these teef (points to the ones in front) but you have to use these back teef (points to the molars) cause the chocolate is real real hard? Can I have that?"
Me: "No."
5 comments:
This is hysterical. I can totally picture Abby and I having a similar conversation. Bob suggests that maybe if you turn the HoHo on its side that it might look like a rectangle.
The bottom is certainly flattened. It is definitely rectangularish.
Ho-Hos are rectangular in plan view; they're only circular in cross section. Maybe he's going to be an architect. Or a Sesame Street shape-ologist. Then he can make that noise when he draws things.
I'd have to agree with Gaw... plus the whole psh psh psh psh thing is kinda cute... if he stays with his perception of the sideways two dimensional shape (rectangle) then maybe I can get a demonstrate next time I am visiting :)
I Love Tito Juanito! These comments are almost as funny as the original post.
I loved sally - "we have no idea what you are talking about - just eat the oreos!" now that's a big sister talking!
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