Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Trying to rationalize with a three year old

I am truely worn out by the end of the day. I'm pulling Titus out of the pantry again! I'm down on the floor searching for "Chick" (the green car from the cars movie). However, I think the thing that wears me out the most is rationalizing with my three year old.



Today, Luke is in the back seat making all sorts of really frustrated sounding noises, so the following conversation begins:



Me-"Hey little man, what's the problem?"

Luke- "Mommy, all these trees are not blue."

Me-"God made the trees green, and during this special time of year the leaves can turn yellow, orange, and red too."

Luke - Even more upset now-"Mommy, ALL these trees are NOT blue!"

Me-"I'm sorry the trees are not blue."

Luke-just decends into crying "That's o.k. mommy, (sob sob) you didn't do it."

2 comments:

Darling Daughters said...

?? That is so interesting!! Why was he thinking about blue trees? Did he read a book with a picture like that in it? Maybe it's time for Mommy to take on a few days of high school Chemistry each week. I'm sure the attempts to rationalize are completely different...

Lori said...

aaawwwww, how sweet and sad :-( Makes me want to make them blue for him