10/26/2010

10/26/2010
Maddox spent the last weekend with me. It was so nice. I’d missed him so much since I’d been out of town the weekend before and gone basically a week without spending time with him. He’s so smart, funny, and everyday he blows my mind with something he says. This last weekend for some reason he wanted to be my “grother” (brother, he says his b’s with a g sound.) He kept saying, “dad, you’re my grother.” Or “dad, I’m your grother!” I don’t know if he just wants a brother, or if it’s his way up upgrading me from his best friend, which he calls me, to his “grother.” Either way I loved it. I kept saying, “Maddox, I’m your daddy, and you’re my son, daddy loves his brothers but his son he loves the most.” That didn’t cut it with him, he wants to be “grothers,” so I guess until he understands it a little better I’ll be his dad, best friend, and grother.

Maddox loves to read his books. And he’s memorized most of them. My favorite book that he talks about is a Cat In the Hat book about the “Thingamajigger.” Maddox LOVES this book and even memorizes the more difficult words. The other day on the freeway he saw a weird looking tractor thing on a trailer on the back of a truck. He yelled, “LOOK DAD, It’s a singamajigger!!!!!” When we sit down for story time he takes control. Sometimes he wants to be read to, sometimes he wants to take over and tell me what the book says. For the most part he can tell me what all the books say, and when he can’t it’s hilarious to hear him make stuff up. My favorite is when I say, “let’s read….” And he comes back with, “actually, ummmmm, let’s read….” And he gives me another book that he wants to read. He’s so smart, funny, and cute, I just wish we could do something about the hitting and the destruction he loves to cause around the house.