So I wasn't quite ready for this. He's only 5 years old, and has heretofore led a strictly pre-school kind of life. Now he's branching out, hanging out with the older kids on the street. I minimally prepared myself that he might pick up something or another that was a little ahead of his time...but not until he started using the lingo did I realize that the time has come!
Now, everything that he thinks is just great has become "so beastie" - and yes, I'm going with the Beastie Boys spelling because beasty just doesn't seem right. And neither does a five year old who proclaims Pokemon cards to be "so, so, so, so beastie."
Nothing prepared me for this scene: John and his friend came into the kitchen one afternoon to eat fruit chillers. While getting the spoons, for no apparent reason, my little just-turned-five- year-old boy exclaimed, "This sucks!"
Cut to me, dropping box of pasta I was about to put away, spinning on my heel..."What did you just say?!"
Repeat.
"Where did you hear that?"
"Just outside when I was playing."
"Well, we don't say that. Those aren't nice words."
"Oh, OK, I didn't know that. What about rocks? Can I say this rocks?"
"Yes."
"This rocks!"
As long as he's not saying that I suck, and occasionally maybe I'm even so, so, so beastie, I guess we're a little ahead of the game. Here's hoping we have some time left at the top of the hill before we start going down that slippery slope!
3 comments:
Funny post!! "Beastie" - I must be getting old because that is a new one on me!!
Hello! I am a friend of Laurie's in Bowling Green, and she sent me your blog address. Hope you didn't mind? I have a 13 month old with food allergies, especially to MILK! Laurie said that you would be an excellent resource...I hope that we can keep in touch and maybe even swap recipes sometime?!?
I will be also praying for sweet little Ben, and as a mom, you too! You seem very strong, I admire that so much. Thank you for your encouraging words and your upbeat personality. I will be checking back to see how things are going!
It does take a while to get used to, huh? I do like to think of myself as a "beastie mom" even though Ben has told me lately that I'm mean. Must be the regulation of the ice pops. We will take full responsibility of the pokemon card phenomenon. I like to think of it as a learning lesson. Trading, sharing, responsibilty for the cards, reading, thinking... It just doesn't get any better than that!!
"Beastie" is new on me too!
We have the same struggles going on here...my oldest son came home from school one day saying, "Look mom! I can hold my middle finger up all by itself with no other fingers on either side! Isn't that cool? XXXXX and XXXXX bet me that I couldn't but look I really can!" Some older kids totally punked him, didn't they?!?
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