"Kill, kill, kill!"

This morning he ran to me and said, "There's a ant, I saw a ant!"

This happens quite often of coarse and it doesn't help that a little someone leaves crumbs constantly. So this time I told him, "Next time you see one ant, just kill it."

NJ- "How? But I can't."

- "Yes you can. You just get a tissue and smush it. It's easy."

NJ- "But what if it's still there and it crawls on me? I don't want it to be on my hand."

- "That's why you have to kill it." 

Sure enough as he continues to eat breakfast more ants come. I asked him to brush up his crumbs and he takes the brush and starts his killing spree. He chanted, "Kill, kill, kill!" and "Hi-ya!" as he hit the floor with the brush. After a while I asked him to finish his breakfast and he says, "But I need to kill ants." Oh dear, I created a monster.

(NJ's pic of the day with my camera) 

He asked me, "A while ago we see the boat parade like the lighting mcqueen one when I was turned one year old and we watch it and I said hi?" 

Huh? It took me a bit to process and figure out what in the world he was talking about. I asked if he said boat or bike parade and he said yes. Hmm... Then I realized he was talking about the rose parade that we recently watched. One of the floats was of cars land with some cars characters. I also told him about how we used to go to see the rose parade every year because we lived so close we could walk. And when he was little, after he turned one, we took him to see it and he waved to all the people in the parade. He consolidated that into one statement. I wonder what made him think of that so randomly. 

"Teach me your ways oh Lord."

My little helper, always doing his best for Mama. 

Everyone's cozied up in their spots, even Dotty.
NJ collided with another kid at the school playground today. He was running full on without looking and so was the other kid. What a sight that must've been. They called just to say he was completely fine, but he had a slight bloody nose and had to change his clothes. The teacher told me he got up and just kept running as if nothing happened. They said they were impressed at how tough he is. I just laughed and said that it sounded just like him. He also memorized the verse for this week which he recited to both me and Baba. Many reasons to be proud of him today.

"But who's going to watch you?"

I got up to NJ walking around studying his little car booklet. 

NJ loves playing with this snow globe, even took a pretty good picture of it. 

Yesterday I told NJ that he'd be going to Ah-ma's (grandma's) the next day because I had an appointment. I said I couldn't watch him because of my appointment and Baba couldn't watch him either, I was going to say because he's sick, but he interrupted me with: "Because Baba needs to watch you?"
- "No, because Baba is sick, he's not feeling well."
NJ- "Is Baba going with you?"
- "No, I'm going by myself."
NJ- "But who's going to watch you?"
If I wasn't driving, I would have grabbed him to kiss him!
And today during dinner he asked me, "Mama, how was your appointment?"
Oh my, how I love this kid! So sweet and caring.

Mr. marshmallow mouth. NJ sometimes asks for hot chocolate now and I let him put the marshmallows on top, it's a fun treat.

Slow day... This is NJ's picture with my camera. Hmm, I wonder what he was thinking about! Baba's sick, Mama's sick, and NJ is his energetic self. Not a very good combination. We didn't make it to church, we're just stuck in the house like we have been for a while. I'm getting really tired of sickness, it seems never ending.