Makes Me Laugh, Emerson Edition

 And, continuing on with my silly kids...

E's little sense of humor has been developing rapidly.  He makes jokes because he knows they are funny, but he still just says things in a unique way that makes me laugh too.

-It's been so fun anticipating Halloween this year because he asks me literally every day if today is Halloween.  I hope it lives up to all of his expectations.  He learned a cute poem at school and made a grotesque little jack-o-lantern on a stick to go with it.  It goes:

Pumpkin, pumpkin,

Big and fat,

Turn into a jack-o-lantern

Just like that!

He also has loved learning little Halloween songs like I'm a Mean Old Witch With a Hat and Halloween, Halloween.

-He was sitting in a laundry basket of clothes and crouched down and said, "Look Mom!  I'm being a clo."  (Clearly the singular form of clothes.)

-I asked him what he wanted for breakfast this morning and he yelled "CHEESE!"

-Anytime he's trying to dink around to avoid doing something he says, "Mom, I have one more question for you."

-If someone does something that he thinks is mean, after initially getting mad he will then accept their apology by saying, "That's ok, we're still pals."

-He has absolutely loved preschool.  He tells me that Miss Cindy is his favorite.  I think she loves E a lot after bonding over the initial falling-in-the-urinal experience.  I would give anything to be a fly on the wall at preschool to watch his interactions and see if he is good at minding.

-They went to a pumpkin patch for a preschool field trip and E brought home a pumpkin so big that the mom driving carpool had to carry it in.  I wasn't really surprised.  I think it was a way to prove his manhood.  I'm hoping all the other kids didn't have little reasonably-sized pumpkins.  E told me that he and Tucker got lost in a corn maze and that Miss Cindy and Miss Carleen had to come find them.

-Here are some pictures from their Halloween party at Preschool:

Tucker as Jake from the Neverland Pirates, Aaron as Darth Vader, and E as a John Deere tractor

Did I mention he struggles with looking at the camera?  On the side of the picture above, you can see his friend Nick who was a Transformer for Halloween.  E has no idea what that is, so he just kind of felt bad for Nick because he thought he wasn't being anything for Halloween.

I can't count the number of times Ben and I lay in bed laughing over what our kids have done or said that day.  It's the best.