Jacksonisms

Boys and their guns
Jackson has hit the gun stage full-force, whether I wanted it or not. I try to continue to reinforce the danger behind real guns, but I’m straddling the line of letting him explore his imagination without confines of parental intrusion, while also attending to the seriousness of the subject matter in real life. I just take it instance-by-instance.  This was a funny exchange we had while he was playing with some police and “robber” Legos recently:

J: The robber got killed.

Me:  Well, what would really happen is that the police man would possibly take him to jail, and later he would go to court.

J:  No – the gun *WAS* the court.

Well, ok then… I had to chuckle at that for a second before correcting him further.

Birds and the Bees and… pee?
Jackson randomly brought up the babies discussion at dinner one night (probably not wise of me to put a preggers pic framed by my kitchen table)…. “Was I a baby before I was born?” …..[I answer]…. “Do the babies come out of the mouth?”…. [I answer, anatomically correct]…. “Do they pee(!) them out?!? [snicker, snicker]”.

And then one day, randomly shopping in Target, Jackson decides to not so quietly begin to question me about when I’m having another baby, and challenging me about the reasons why I’m not. Yeahhh, that wasn’t really a fun conversation!

My little snarky guy
  “I’m smarter than you.” --- I don’t even remember what this was in reference to.

“Seriously?????”  He’s definitely picked up on this phrase that I overuse absentmindedly.

A Numbers Game
Jackson sometimes doesn’t get the concept of numbers, but he’s getting to the stage where he likes to use them to quantify things.  Here are some funny remarks:

“Guess how much I love you? ………… Zero much!”

“He pushed me down like 3,079 times today.”

“Gazillion *IS* a number, Mommy. It comes after 100.”

Dinosaur Facts
Jackson has been getting interested in dinosaurs, and especially the history and empirical information around their existence and extinction. He frequently talks about dying and death in regards to dinosaurs, so maybe it’s a way to process his understanding of that concept as well.  This was one of his funnier, less accurate, remarks:

J:   Mommy, did you know the tyrannosaurus rex ate all the baby dinosaurs, and they were all little robots?

Me:  How do you know that?

J:  Because I'm just smart………… And then, a big meteor came to hit all the dinosaur robots.