Cal-isms

Cal is Charlotte's best friend. They're only a month apart and they've been playing together since they were about 9 months old. Cal is also the funniest kid I know. He's got an interesting take on the world and a very quirky way of explaining things, pretty impressive for a 3 1/2 year old. I told Jessica, Cal's mom, that she should start a blog for all of his Cal-isms, she offered to write a guest post instead. Here's Jessica's first guest post.

My son cal is...well to put it nicely, "creative". At gym class while all of the other kids are dancing fast to a fast song, he's dancing slow. In music class, he's making up alternate endings to songs. I spend most of my day rolling my eyes and shaking my head at him but I write these things down because I think someday I’ll appreciate them. Someday.

To the tall man ahead of us in line: "Hey! I like your body!"

Cal: "Who told you which way to turn to drive home?"
Me: "The map."
Cal: "Maps don't talk! WHO TOLD YOU?!?!"

At pick n save meat department near the fresh fish: "I smell cat food!"

Back story-- Cal makes up words when he sees fit...
Cal: "I can't eat any more lunch because my tummy will be all boofy."
Me: "What's boofy?"
Cal: (pulls up shirt and sticks out his belly). "This!"
Me: "Well you better not eat anymore then."
Cal: "But ice cream doesn't make it boofy. I can eat that!"

Cal: "What's that?"
Me: "A panther."
Cal: "A hamster?"
Me: "No, a pan-ther."
Cal: "Ham-ster?"
Me: "Pan-ther."
Cal: "Well I’m just going to call it a hamster, okay? Like this-Hey look at that hamster!"

Cal: “When you have a cough, you're not supposed to cough in your hand and touch someone but I didn't want my cold anymore so I coughed in my hand and gave it to daddy.”

Cal to stranger: "I wish I had your baby as my brother."

We bought a pumpkin and he says "I can't wait to take all the crap out of him and cut up his face!".

While eating a hot dog: “Is it okay to eat the butt (the end)?”

There are posted rules at one of our favorite play places and cal and I were going over them. The first one is no bare feet/no shoes. Cal says, "Who has bear feet? We all have people feet! That’s a silly rule!"

Cal: "hey! I smell something! What is it?"
Me: "I don't know. What is it?"
Cal: "it's my nose! I smell my own nose!"

Cal talking to himself: "You're a nut. No YOU are a nut! I’m not a nut, YOU are a nut!"
Me: "you're both nuts..."

We lost power in a storm and Cal was upset that he couldn't see the end of the TV show he was watching. He says, "I'm sad that our house ran out of batteries".

Me: "Ben is coming over to play!"
Cal: "Ben? Ben don't play!"
Me: "What? Yes he does."
Cal: "No! Ben’s go on hotdogs!"
Me: "BEN, not bun!"

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