Nate: When I grow up, I want to marry you mommy.
Laura: You can't marry me Nate. I am already married to your dad.
Nate: Well, you should unmarry him.
Laura: You mean I should divorce him? No, I'm not going to divorce your dad.
Nate: Why won't you divorce him?
Laura: It took me a long time to meet someone I loved so much. He's my best friend. I want to live with him forever.
Nate: No one lives forever. When he dies, then you will be divorced and I can marry you.
Laura: Even when dad dies, you can't marry me. You're my son. You have to find someone else you love and marry them, someone who is not related to you. I am staying married to daddy forever.
(Now is not the time for me to point out that we do live in a southern state....)
Nate: Well when daddy dies, you won't be married anymore.
Laura: Nate, when daddy dies, I will be very sad.
(Here I got a little choked up.)
Nate: Why will you be sad? You can meet someone else you love and marry them and be happy like you are with daddy.
Laura: Nate I will be sad because I will miss him! If daddy dies, he will be gone forever and I won't want to marry someone else.
Nate: Maybe you can both die on the same day. Then you won't be sad.
Laura: BUT WON'T YOU BE SAD????????
Alex: I will be very sad if you and daddy die.
(Mentally filed away so we know which kid will be taking care of us in old age.)
15 comments:
You never can tell where these crazy-ass conversations are going to go at this age, can you?
LOL oh my word, despite the sadness of the thought of Jon dying (has your son no heart?! :)), this is hilarious.
And yes, Alex is definitely going to take care of you.
Love it! So much funnier than the conversation Nina and I had last night about why she can't pee in the toilet like a boy. (She still found a way to directly reference the time she saw one of your boys peeing on our wisteria!)
What? Death? Dying? Divorce? Remarrying!? Too deep for me! I don't know that my four year old would put this all together. I think she has too much anxiety to talk about death and dying! I feel a little sad reading this post. I think I'll go re-read the Valentine's day poop story. :)
I love this post. I know that many parents find kids who negotiate disrespectful and annoying. Sometimes, I do too. But most of the time, I love witnessing the thought process they expose when they go through all of the contortions to get what they want. Conversation is an obstacle course and hearing them adapt and overcome each obstacle is really impressive.
And, I must say that deciding that you two should both die on the same day so neither of you has to suffer the loss is pretty compassionate. And, practical.
My favorite part of this (aside from Alex coming tongue rescue and Nate being practical about you both dying on the same day)? "now is not the time to point out that we live in a southern state"
Hahahahahahahahaha!
And that was supposed to be "to the rescue" not tongue rescue, WTF autocorrect?! (no, I'm not taking responsibility for lack of proofreading)
Oh my... These four year old thought process sure do keep you on your toes.
LOL! I can hardly wait!
Joanna, I too feel torn between enjoying the little negotiations and cutting them off as disrespectful. My 2 year-olds are already trying me with "just a little bit" when I say no to stuff they want, or if they can't touch something they will ask just to look. Or if they ask me to nurse and I say just a little bit, as soon as they are at it, they say "nurse a looooot!". Man, I have no idea where they get that from, must be innate human stuff.
Hilarious! Death and having babies marriage are huge topics in our house lately. They wanted to marry each other for a while but when I told them they couldn't they moved onto same-sex best friends (which is fine with me!). The death conversations are sometimes cute, sometimes disturbing, like S narrating to her grandfather the picture she drew him for his 70th birthday: It's you and an alligator and then you died.
Hilarious!! I'm amazed at the serious topics tackled in this exchange, and the maturity with which your boys handled them. Wow! Really amazing.
How funny! Good thing you have Alex to take care of you in advanced age!
Cole thinks he's going to marry Jason and me and we'll all move to Chicago together. His brother will marry their cousin. I have not corrected him about this because I think it's very sweet.
Funny about the difference between Nate and Alex here.
By the end of the post I was laughing out loud, but at the beginning I was reminded of the Mr. Rogers song, "Going to Marry Mom". It is very sweet.
I rarely bust out laughing from reading, but your commentary was hilarious. Love sweet, Alex.
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