David has been getting way too smart for his own good lately. He’s always thinking of ways to get out of trouble, and what he comes up with is usually something that makes us want to simultaneously crack up and throttle him. My two favorite recent examples:
1. The other morning he was driving me insane, asking me “why?” every time I asked him to do anything. I was trying to remain calm, but he was making me crazy. Finally, he asked “why?” one last time and I got mad and said, “Because when I tell you to do something, you just do it! You don’t ask why, you don’t question me, you just DO IT!” He looked at me, and without skipping a beat he said, “No, Mommy, I wasn’t saying the word ‘why,’ I was just saying the letter ‘Y.’”
2. One day last week, right after we were all getting over being sick (post on that coming soon), David was supposed to be taking a nap, but was making all sorts of noise instead. I had already gone in once to tell him to be quiet and go to sleep, but he started to yell again. Dave went in to tell him to be quiet, and David said “But Mommy told me to call for her if I was going to be sick.” Dave got worried and said, “Are you going to be sick?!?” and David said, “No, that’s why I called for YOU.”
