lasterday part 2

Not long after I finished the previous post, I fed Bennett dinner while Anderson and Paul were still on the golf course. His hastily-made dinner consisted of grits and grapes because Bennett doesn't like the chicken wraps I made for Paul and Anderson (normally I do not make two dinners, but since he was eating alone, I figured I could swing it this time). During the course of explaining to him what he was going to eat for dinner and that he could not have fruit snacks until after he ate his meal, he actually asked me, "Are you trying to be a bad mom?" Honestly, there wasn't any disrespect in his tone or malice in his voice. Sometimes I think he talks just to hear the sound of his own voice.

As soon as he finished eating all of his grits and grapes (yuck, I know), I heard him go to the pantry to get his promised fruit snacks. Then, I heard him start singing a familiar tune with the following lyrics: "hong-a-sing-a-lay, hong-a-sing-a-lay". I thought to myself, "That sounds like Beyonce's Single Ladies, but those are definitely not the lyrics. So I went and stood by him at the pantry to see that he was staring at the fruit snack box that had a huge picture of Alvin and the Chipmunks on it. If you have seen this movie, you know that Single Ladies is the theme song to that movie. Bennett has seen it once, but I'm sure he saw lots of ads for it when it was in theaters and out on DVD, so he had not forgotten. Anyway, he translated, "All the single ladies, all the single ladies" as "hong-a-sing-a-lay, hong-a-sing-a-lay".

He is now sitting next to me playing on his "DS" which is actually a Leapster Explorer. He has a pet dog on it, and he was asking me what the name choices were for his names. One of them is Peaches. He just looked at me incredulously and said, "I don't want a dog named after a vegetable."

I wish I could just keep a video camera running. He'd get some You Tube hits, for sure.