My 4-year old cousin is a hot mess... he really thinks he's 40, and therefore can live his life by himself. He has a Powerwheels Jeep that he thinks is a real car, so after his parents drive home from my grandparents house, and he realizes he's home, he tells them to turn back around. They of course say no, so he goes, "Well, I'll drive myself back."
The next day, he's watching tv, gets up, opens the door and walks out of the house, comes back in a few minutes later and sits back down.
his mom: what did you go outside for?
gregory: to get the garage door opener from your truck
mom: why?
gregory: i put it in my red car so I can open the door myself and go back to gramma's house tonight
While my aunt was on the phone telling me this, she mentioned that he also said he was going to drive himself to Wal-Mart. He's in the background going "Yeah! I'ma drive myself to Wal-Mart, and Super Wal-Mart, and the grocery store in my red car, and I'ma get toys and candy BY MYSELF!" We know he's bold enough to do it, so they have to keep the opener hidden now.
On Easter, he said he didn't want to go to church. We asked him why, and he said because he was afraid of God, because he yells so loud. After a little investigation, we realized that Gregory thinks God is a black man in a suit, i.e. the preacher in church. While they were driving one Sunday, he saw a man on a corner in a suit and said "Mommy, is that God? Why isn't he in church?" We can't get him to understand that one yet.
Gregory also has a fascination with women that will rival any man; he is a MESS when it comes to pretty women and girls (and yes, he only goes after pretty ones-- he knows the difference!) It was impossible to wean him off his breastfeeding, and he always wants to lay up on somebody's chest, because it's comforting, but he takes it too far..
"Mommy, please sit down so I can lay on your boobs."
"No, you are not laying up on me so you can rub on my boobs! Rub on your own boobs!"
"But my boobs are too little, and daddy's boobs are too little, and Kristin's boobs are too little. You have big boobs!"
He's always trying to sneak a peek or grab you when you're carrying him... and whenever he succeeds he starts laughing and goes "AHA! I squeezed/saw/touched your boob!" I think my auntie weaned him too early, 'cause that poor baby is gonna be "ruint" for life!
Another aunt and uncle are an interracial couple, and they recently had a baby. Greg asked, "Mommy, is (our cousin) white or gray?"
Greg's 9-year old sister, when she was his age, also had her own revelations about skin color. White and light-skinned black people were "skin" (as in light-skinned) and darker people were "brown." It's nice to see them at that age, when the concept of skin color still doesn't mean anything... it just is. We would always get mad about her dolls because she specifically wanted hispanic barbies instead of black ones, because they were "yellowish" like her. (that was her word... she didn't want white ones, didn't want black ones... and we could see her point
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My cousins are a 100% trip... I actually keep a daily account of all the craziness they get into!
I'm sitting there like, you are 4 what do you know about a impression.
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