Conversations With a 3 Year Old

Conversations with a three year old can be very funny. They can also be very complicated. They can make you want to run and hide because you can't believe your child just said that! Here are some of the conversations I have had with our children when they were 3. Let me tell you some were deep, some were funny, and some were just down right bizarre.

While driving in the car with Brent when he was 3 and my mom he says out of the blue, "Mommy I am mad at the people who hung Jesus on the cross." I was floored. Where did that come from? Try explaining the crucification of Jesus to a 3 year old. Not gonna happen! So I told him that Jesus died for us and he is in a much better place now. He just kept going on and on about those mean people who hung Jesus on the cross.

You know your child has watched the movie Enchanted too many times when she looks at the apple you are about to eat and asks you "Is that a poison apple?". I told her no and she told me "Good because I don't want you to die." No more Enchanted.

This past weekend Alexis was curled up on Uncle Troy and Aunt Lisa's couch next to Mike. Mike is great guy who just adores her and has children too. Alexis was asking him about his family when she asked him if his mommy was dead. He looks at me and mouthed "What the heck?*" (*censored this is a family blog). He told her no so she proceeded to drill him on who was alive and who was dead in his family. Great couch talk isn't it. I had no explanation for him about her fascination on the living and the dead. Maybe it stems from the recent passing of Jerry and Helen's outside dog, maybe not. I can't even begin to understand or explain her 3 year old mind!

Brent was always quick to point out people's "boogers in their nose". It didn't matter where we were or who they were he told him about their mucus problem. We tried and tried to explain to him it was not good manners, but he never understood it at that age!

Our kids make me smile on a daily basis. The things they think of and the things they say! WOW!

I can't wait to remind them when they are older of all of our unique conversations! Hope they have just as many with their kids someday!