Nathanisms

•  Nathan has always loved monsters, especially Monsters, Inc. but the last few weeks or so he has become terrified of them.  He psyches himself out so much that multiple times a day we have the same conversation about how monsters are pretend and that there are no monsters in the house.  Well last week I was cooking dinner and Logan began to cry in the bouncer.  Nathan ran down the stairs faster than I could, bent down in front of Logan, held his hand and calmly and softly kept saying, "Don't be scared, don't cry there are no monsters in the house."  
• My parents are in Disneyland for the week and so we keep talking to Nathan about how grandma and grandpa flew on a plane to go to Disneyland for a vacation.  He let that sink in for a few days and then came to me and said, "Mommy I go on a plane but I go on a plane to the moon.  And I see the moon and stars and planets!"  
• Matt was trying to get Nathan out the door and off to grandma's the other morning.  Nathan had his arms full of cars and there was no way he was going to make it out the door without dropping them. Matt told Nathan to pick two cars and put the rest away to which Nathan responded, "No, I bring five!"  Matt again told him no to pick only two cars to which Nathan said, " Okay three then!"  Matt was so stunned by our child negotiating with him that Nathan won!
• During the Sunday morning session of conference the choir sang "Child's Prayer".  Nathan had been playing with his toys and running like crazy all morning but heard them start singing, put down his toys and came and grabbed me from the bedroom.  He pulled my arm into the room where conference was playing and excitedly yelled, "I know this song!"  He then proceeded to sing along the best he could.
•  Last night I was getting Nathan ready for bed when he loudly exclaimed, "Mommy I see a monkey!"  I looked around and there was no toy monkeys anywhere so I asked him where the monkey was.  He excitedly responded, "He is chasing the weasel!" 

Gotta love two year olds!