More John Harrisonisms

Two days ago while I was driving, John Harrison spoke up during a Third Day song we were listening to on the radio and said, "Listen new song, Mommy. Tired of old song." I changed to a different station with Maroon 5 playing and asked him if he liked the new music. He responded, "Like new song, mommy." We haven't exposed John Harrison to much music aimed at babies or young children---mainly for our own sanity (I think having Veggie Tales rattling around in my head all day would be more than I could handle)---but also because he has always liked the music we listen to. Not quite sure why John Harrison preferred the Maroon 5 song over the Third Day one (I liked both), but I suspect it was because the Third Day song was a little slower than he likes. (Side note....I remember taking John Harrison to Sunday School when he was around 20 months old---all the other kids were huddled around the tv watching Veggie Tales and the teacher invited John Harrison to watch, too---he had absolutely no interest in watching (he hardly ever watched tv at home---and on top of that had never seen Veggie Tales) and went straight for some toys instead--I think the teacher was a bit perplexed).

We recently misplaced John Harrison's footie dog-patterned fleece pajamas ("Raleigh jamas" as he calls them...(named after our dog, of course:)). This morning, John Harrison looks at me with a serious face and says, "Next time go Costco buy new Raleigh jamas, Mommy." It is so fun to hear him talking in complete thoughts so frequently now!!

In John Harrison's mind, almost everything costs $2. If you ask him how much our house costs, you will find that we got the deal of the century: $2. If you ask how much strawberries cost, they are $2 (not too far off). Which would you rather have, a house or a pint of fresh berries?

Beginning several months before Christmas, the toy catalogs poured in. John Harrison has always loved getting the mail and looking at what came in the mail and so he was enthralled with mail featuring toys. He called each catalog a "new book"---he wanted us to read him each "new book" over and over and over again. We had to tape the new book pages when they tore. When the Harry and David catalog came, it was the "new fruit book." He tried hard to pick the fruit, cheese, treats, and nuts off the pages to no avail. Today a new spring Pottery Barn catalog came and John Harrison called it both the "new Easter book" and the "$2" book (I assume the latter name was given because the catalog featured things you could buy and of course, everything costs $2). John Harrison told me that the "$2" book costs "$2" and I explained to him that the company actually sends it out to people for free because they will make money when people buy things in the catalog. He didn't know quite what to think of this.

John Harrison runs around in circles laughing and calls it his "elevator dance." John Harrison invented the elevator dance during the SuperBowl party we hosted at our house. We had our small group over and John Harrison got really hyper. It was one of those parenting moments where you want to laugh, but you can't laugh because you will encourage the behavior to continue.