My "Court Jester"

Who needs a court jester when you live with Cooper? Seriously, that kid is funny. Sometimes he's trying  to be, but most of the time, he just IS. I just wanted to write down a few things that Cooper has been saying lately.

From today:
Cooper was pretend burping, which he knows I don't like. I told him to please stop. TJ was present and always tries to "parent" him as well. He said "Cooper, if you do that when you are a dad to your wife......" and Cooper said "I will get possessed." Uhhhh, ya mean divorced? Something like that.

Tonight when we were reading scriptures, I was reading from 1st Nephi when it is talking about Lehi's dream. In particular, this verse:
"11 And it came to pass that I did go forth and partake of the ^afruit thereof; and I beheld that it was most sweet, above all that I ever before tasted. Yea, and I beheld that the fruit thereof was white, to exceed all the ^bwhiteness that I had ever seen."

Cooper wasn't really paying attention (shocker) but occasionally he listens when I don't think he is. So I tested him with the question "Cooper, what did the fruit taste like?" and was expecting to hear "sweet" as the answer, but instead he said "bananas?" TJ and I totally busted up laughing when he said that.

When I was picking him up from preschool, his teacher was telling me that he just thinks on a totally different plain than the rest of the kids - it was like having a junior high kid in there. He just really thinks outside the box. She said she thinks he is going to be very successful when he grows up. We'll see. Hope he can find a job that's not too "BOR-ING" because he has informed us he doesn't do boring things, such as clean. Think again buddy. His teacher also told me something kind of funny he said last week. They had a day where they talked about buttons, and as part of that, each child was counting how many buttons they were wearing. Cooper was wearing sport shorts and a T-shirt that day, so there were no buttons. He was kind of sad until she said he got this bright look on his face and said real excitedly "I have a button!" He pulled up his shirt and said "My BELLY BUTTON!"

I seriously love that kid!!!!