Eitan was drawing in his notebook and showing me the (minecraft?) animal he designed. It had two enormous black dots on it.
Mama: “That’s great! What are those two black dots?”
Eitan: “Those are its belly buttons”
Mama, treading carefully: “Usually animals only have one belly button”
Eitan, lifting his shirt: “I have two!”
Mama: “Oh you mean your nipples!”
Eitan: “yes!”
Mama: “Ok, the thing down here (showing him) is your belly button.”
Eitan: “Ok I’ll add that too”
Dada was building an arctic biome and had collected a lot of white lego blocks. I commented on this when I couldn’t find any white blocks, “Oh, Dada, you have them all!”
Eitan looked over and said, “yeah, Dada, you’re the white master!”
Rich responded, completely deadpan, “Don’t call me that.”
We were leaving Nana and Papa’s house at about 8:45PM. Eitan said, “I think we’re going to get home at 9:10. Mama you guess too!”
I responded, “I think 9:15.”
We got home at exactly 9:10! I told Eitan we should take him to Vegas, and he said, “Yeah, and I can guess the time it takes to get there too!”
Sympathetically. Eitan now does everything sympathetically. Last night, I asked him if he was in his pj’s yet, and I heard, “I’m drying my tush sympathetically!”
Good?
Mama: Eitani, your eye is red. Is it hurting you?
Eitan: No, I was rubbing it a lot
Mama: Ok, let me know if it hurts
Eitan: I rub this eye in winter, summer, and fall. I rub my other eye in the other season.
Mama: Spring?
Eitan: Yeah that one
Mama: Ok, that sounds like a good plan
Eitan: Want to see Bob? [in Minecraft]
Mama: Who’s Bob?
Eitan: My wife!
Note: Bob turned out to be a Pirate Villager
Eitan wants to get a computer so he can play Minecraft Java Edition on the TV. He knows our computers aren’t powerful enough for more than one player, however. He told Papa about this recently:
“We need to get a computer that’s strong, Papa.”
I love his use of the word strong to mean powerful. It’s not one an adult would ever use, but it means the same thing!
In response to a book where a character stopped picking up pennies because she was so rich, Eitan declared “I still pick up pennies. You know, because they’re out of stock.”
He’d been told pennies were no longer being made, but I love his consumerist spin on this fact!
Over the past few months, Eitan has gotten really into making up and playing out stories with a trio of tiny axolotl toys he obtained by persuading his grandparents to purchase a slime set which included them. Eitan named the axolotl he plays with the most Rainbow while I was bestowed the honor of naming the remaining two. So, of course, I named them Pinky and the Brain.
While Eitan enjoys exploring new adventures, the winning storylines tend to stick around. One such recent “adventure” which has lasted had all three (!) axolotls marry and travel to various international destinations for their honeymoons. There was very little concern from Eitan into whether or not this was allowed, so good job on being open-minded I guess?
The family name we decided to go with? The Dangers.
Mama: How was double Hebrew today? At least you’re done for the week!
Eitan: I actually kinda like double Hebrew now… and regular Hebrew too.
Mama: That’s great!
Eitan: I’m almost done learning all the letters and then I can read the whole Torah.
*Proud mama glow*