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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

You're driving me CRAZY!

Today I took Ethan to his speech class. I dropped him off at his class and then I usually walk over to mom and dad's. When I got to dad's we went out and sat on the back porch. It is beautiful in Florida today by the way. Anyway I was telling him that Ethan really wanted to come over after his class, to see Papa, but that I had a meeting to be at right after his speech class. We were laughing, talking about some of the things that the boys say. As we were talking I remembered what Ethan and I talked about last night. This is how our conversation went...

E: "Mom what does 'You're driving me crazy' mean".
S: "It means that someone or something is frustrating or aggravating you".
E: "So if Ryan is taking my toys I can say 'You're driving me crazy'".
S: "Well it is nicer if you say you're aggravating me, or frustrating me".
E: "Or 'You're driving me crazy'".
S: (frustrated) "Yes, Ethan..."

I could tell that he wasn't going to let this one go. And I could tell that mommy probably should use "frustrating" or "aggravating" more often than the other option...
Isn't it funny how our little ones really give us a check on the things that come out of our mouth.

Dad and I had a good laugh over it anyway.

1 comment:

Erica said...

Yeah...I can always tell what I need to stop doing by listening to my girls : )
Thanks for the reminder