RECENT JAMES-ISMS

James has said a lot of funny/weird things over the past month, and I finally updated his James-isms page. I thought I'd share a few here though, just for fun.

• Driving out of the military park, we turn around to see James buckled but with the straps hanging loose. We look at each other, wondering who forgot to check James' buckles before starting the car. James chimes in with "Gramma was the one!" (I suppose it was her job in his eyes, since she was sitting between he and Cora in the backseat. Cracked us up!) 5/27/13
• At the conclusion of the Memorial Day parade, James admonishes "Hey! They didn't give us any necklaces!" and Cora complains "I wanted a treat!" Apparently all parades are expected to provide beads and candy... 5/27/13
• Getting ready to head out for an adventure, I sit in the backseat between the kids, singing silly songs and clapping my hands and snapping my fingers while the doors to the van are open. James fusses at me and says "Stop it mommy! You're scaring the whole world!" 5/27/13
• James got some new shirts from his Gramma. A couple of them are V-neck shirts. He ran up to me and told me "Hey mama, look at my V-head shirt!" 5/26/13
• James peeks under a rock to look for bugs and finds a large cluster of roly-polies. He excitedly tells us "They wanted to come to a party! It's a roly-poly party!" 5/24/13
• We wake up, yet again, to find an opossum stuck in our garbage can. So of course we bring the kids outside with Gramma to watch us set it free. Jay tips the can and it doesn't budge. We check for babies and there are none, so we dump the can and expect it to go running. Instead it plays dead. We make noise and prod it to try and get it to move out of the driveway, and James pipes in with "Go on with yourself possum!" 5/23/13
• James got in trouble at school for throwing rocks. This has happened quite a few times, and this time his teacher actually called me immediately to discuss punishment since he hit a little girl in the face. After discussing the situation with Jay, we realized that time out, threats and consequences, and reprimands weren't getting the message through. So Jay called the director and told her to send him outside with a bucket to collect all the rocks and move them out of the play area. That should teach him :-) 5/21/13
• We went for an after dinner stroll around the neighborhood tonight. When we got back to our cul-de-sac, Jay noticed some hawks circling overhead and asked me what they were. I told him happily that our pair of Mississippi Kites were back for the summer. James turned and looked at me, and said "No mama, those aren't kites, those are BIRDS!" Time to start the ornithology lessons :-) 5/20/13
• "Hey! I see bush letters!" (Any time James sees letters at overpasses shaped from flowers or bushes, he calls them bush letters. Cracks us up!) 5/17/13
• Driving home from the gym with daddy, paused at the stoplight, James pipes up out of the blue with "We don't eat there. That's a greasy spoon. It's yucky!" Totally baffled Jay. (Of course, James had asked me about the place, a Waffle House, the day before on the way home from the gym, so he was basically repeating what he'd heard from me as to why I wouldn't take him there for dinner.) 5/9/13 
• James calls capital letters "bigger case" and lower case letters "little case", and I just think it's the cutest thing! 5/7/13
• James is going on and on about some random goings-ons and crazy-sounding things, so Jay and I finally interrupt him to ask what on earth he's talking about. His response? "I'm just making up stories. Ha ha ha ha ha!" 4/27/13