Liam’s been interested in art lately (what three-year-old isnt?) so I decided to try something tonight, and we played our own version of WLD. I started by drawing something, then Meghan told Liam to draw something for me, then I told him something to draw for her, etc. I was guessing, and I guessed “pie.” Liam said that was right, but Meghan said it was supposed to be a banana. Liam said he couldn’t draw a banana so he drew a pie instead.

I asked him to draw a winkie. First he just drew a line, so Meghan said, “That’s not what a winkie looks like; what’s a winkie look like?” So he dropped his pants.

Later, Meghan told Liam to draw a book. He apparently misunderstood, because he drew some gobbledy-gook and proclaimed, “It’s a boo-gah!” When he actually drew the book, it was basically just a bunch of vertical lines, so I asked him what they were. He said they were the pages and that this one, pointing to the leftmost line, was the “stem.”

Liam got a sea turtle stuffed animal from the Dollar Tree. He wondered, “Why his belly is bright green and his shell is old green?”

Liam ran into the living room and told his mom, “Mom, Sister got on the schedulator!”

She got on the bathroom scale.

Liam has these wooden vegetables that can separate into pieces and stick back together with Velcro. Granted, it’s probably not 3M’s Velcro, but rather a generic hook-and-loop closure tab, but you get the idea. He hasn’t played with them in a while, and he wanted us to find them for him. He didn’t know what to call them.

“I want my play food.”
“It’s in your kitchen.”
“No, the play food with sticks.”
Now, had he said the play food that sticks, we may have gotten it. But we didn’t, so he went into his room and got his Velcro-strap shoes and said, “like this!”

I played Burnout 3 when it came out, and little Liam called it “car-broke.”

We were driving home tonight and Liam said, “Did you hear the crickets? They said: [makes kissing sounds]“