You're Killing Me...

The Elder Boy has been using his first catch phrase. He is a big fan of Daddy Day Care, where he heard - "You're killing me" - which he has started saying around the house. He does it as such:

Ethan: Daddy.
Me: Yes.
Ethan: You're killing me.

He says it at random times and not always in context. Just standing around, at the dinner table, etc. Not, for instance, when I'm trying to change a diaper (which would be pretty funny - to me at least.) Not to say that the Elder Boy doesn't have a good sense of humor. At least for a two year old. Dig this.

Scene: Casa Tinsley. Dinner Time. Dinner Table. We're eating. All around. Ethan has moved on to dessert while Carter and I are still eating dinner dinner. Dessert is jello. Ethan keeps grabbing it with his hands vs. his spoon and is making a mess. This is annoying his Mom something fierce. She keeps reminding him to use his spoon. He doesn't. She tells him if he does it one more time (using the hands) she'll take it away from him. He does it one more time, so up and away goes the Jello. Ethan complains and starts negotiating to get it back. He gets it back (parental note: he didn't use his hands again after it was taken away) after a few tense minutes and the promise that he won't use his hands, only his spoon. Carter is tense from the episode and sets the Jello down in front of him. Clearly frustrated that such a lengthy negotiation had to occur over jello. Conflicted Mommy emotions of being a hard liner, but also being annoyed by his behavior.

Mom: Ethan I don't like yellin' at you over jello. (voices were raised in the incident.)
Ethan: It's Orange, No yellin' (meaning the jello of course.)
(Cue Wyatt monster noise instead of laugh track - and you just peeked inside Casa Tinsley at 6:30 Monday, July 12, 2004.)

Probably one of those you had to be there kind of things - but I found it quite humourous.

Until I BLOG Again...Use your spoon.