Oh I love that kid (and hopefully that doesn’t come off as internet stalkerish)…

Ah! That age! Today, Tebow said, “Mom! I havta tell you something!” And then launched into this stuttering excitement about something with penguins and who knows what else. All I could think was, I need to record this kid sometime.

Love him. (But what happened next with the seed conversation?)

i have a 4-11/12ths chatterbug too. never. ever. stops. ever.

I also love this kid, and I guess it does kind of come off as stalkerish, but he really does bring joy to my life :)

Thank YOU for writing that, it’s nice to know I’m NOT ALONE and that there ARE other kids out there with Chatter Box Syndrome (C-BS for short, it also could stand for Child Bull Sh*t depending on your mood.) Lol! ANYWAY, mine adopted the phrase “Mommy, I got tell you sumpting!” Followed by a serious or dramatic pauses that indicates either that he forgot what he was going to tell me and/or in fact had nothing to say at all. When he is finished with his monologue, if there is any kind of question at the end and I dare to answer it is followed by a grunt and a “You’re wrong.” I think I blacked out when just the other day I heard his 3 year old brother say, “Mommy! Gotta tell you sumpting…” Ahhhhhhhhh!!!

Too cute!

This all sounds very familiar and totally hilarious. Dylan might enjoy the learn to read books that are named versions of “Scary Animal X vs. Scary Animal Y”.
T Rex versus Velociraptor is one example. My son can’t get enough of them.

Ha! My 5yo daughter is the same. Kid doesn’t stop talking from the time she wakes up until she finally passes out at night (usually mid-sentence). My oldest was never like this. Maybe it’s a second kid thing?

OMG yes! The grand daughters that can talk, yes yes yes…..but the 9 year old, knows more about baseball than I will ever know in my lifetime….the 5 year old? Dylan and her need to get together and they can just ramble on to each other for HOURS! It’s even funnier when she is talking to herself, I really should tape her sometime.

It occurred to me today that I had time alone with Leah when she was a baby/toddler, but my alone time with Evan will be when he is older and Leah is in school – like it is now with you and Dylan. It strikes me as interesting that we get alone time with both our kids but at different stages of their lives. It’s an experience that we can never duplicate, you know? Still, can’t wait until they’re both at school….

Kids are like people on acid. Highly entertaining.

Also? Every time I get one of these updates in my email, and I read it and see how big your kids are getting, it makes me feel old … but in a good way, because a lot has happened in my life since I started reading your diary entries (on DIARYLAND. A million years ago), and a lot has happened in your life too, and it’s encouraging to me that both of us seem to be getting happier and healthier as the years go on. So cheers to us … and to your highly entertaining family.

Have you ever read him ‘Interrupting Chicken’? My five year-old L-O-V-E-S it and it is now a bedtime favorite. ALSO he can now tell approximately 682 knock-knock jokes that go like this:
5-yr old chatterbox: knock-knock
me: who’s there?
5-yr old chatterbox: interrupting cow
me: interrupting c…
5-yr old chatterbox: MOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

So cute!! And I am glad my boys were not the only ones like this too! My 6 year old is at the stage where the conversation is going like such “and then we learned how to add 1 and 2 and that equals…..SQUIRREL!!!!!! Hey there’s a squirrel! What’s for lunch?” Love their interest in everything, but I am exhausted trying to keep up with the jumps in the conversations!

oh that was me being accidentally anonymous – but anywho…I loved reading this to end my evening and wish I had written down the very similar seed/tummy conversation I had recently (which, ahem, was the result of mom not wondering if the ‘Mom is having a baby’ book his 7 year-old sister checked out from the library actually was not about becoming a sibling but was about HOW in very much detail the baby gets in there which said sister read to him while mom took an unusually uninterrupted shower) – except he just kept asking how, if I was a baby TOO, when was HE a baby, and were we babies at the SAME TIME and if so how did I take care of him? And was grandma a baby then too? And Uncle Jonah? And…

Love it! This made me laugh until I cried!!

Dylan says the things my kid thinks but can’t express (verbal delays). Love it!!

Love it. I swear that he and Nathan are long lost twins.

You NEED to buy him these books! :)

http://alphabetman.businesscatalyst.com/WhoWouldWin

So cute and you will be so happy you have this written down .. years from now he will love hearing you re-read these things about him …

Yes, this, a million times over. It’s so true and funny, but at the same time painful because I am experiencing the same thing with my almost-5-year-old. I need silence!

Wait, so where did the seed come from?

Ah Molly, the interrupting (animal) joke never gets old in our house. We’ve covered interrupting every animal, vehicle, and person known to my kids. It’s a perfect example of kid humor.

Reading this I had déjà vu. My 5yo wants to have these conversations with me when I’m tucking him into bed at night. Or at 5:30 in the morning! And pretty much every hour in between.

I am so amazed that you REMEMBER the conversations long enough to write them down.

My daughter pelts me all day long with questions that I never *quite* hear and then goes “yes or no? yes or no, mom, yes or no? yes or noooooooooo yesorno YES OR NO?”

GARHBLARHHMMG.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaaaaa!!!!!!

Now I’m dying to know how to make a rainbow.

There’s a book series out there that does a great job if they want to know more about babies. The one for Dylan’s age group is “It’s NOT the Stork” and for Riley “It’s So Amazing”. A word of warning: they are VERY FRANK so pre-read so you don’t accidentally say “Oh god” when you see what’s coming next, and then you have to pretend that nothing is wrong and you don’t know why you said that. :) My daughter, Riley’s age, really liked the book and now wants to read the one for littler kids. Also, the negative Amazon reviews for the series are hysterical.

Loving this!

I look forward to convos like this with my sons! When they get to be Dylan’s age, they’ll be more fun :)