Simply Scott

Blowing bubbles was fun...


while it lasted. Oops! Spilled a little!

Quotes overhead from Scott while playing with his engines. I think he's seen one too many Thomas episodes.
"Percy's driver applied the brake."
"He pumped his pistons and raced away."
"Toby, you were driving much too fast."
"Percy was coupled up to the freight car."
"Thomas applied his brake, but it was too late."


If you ask Scott his name, he may tell you that it's Rocky or Byron. It's been Rocky the Crane for a few weeks now, but this week he's been calling himself Byron the Bulldozer. He even insisted that we sign his Father's Day card with "Byron". He's regularly been calling me Cranky (the crane) for about a month now. "Can I have some more milk, Cranky?" or "Cranky! I need help!" I don't think he even understands what the word cranky means, so I'm going along with it. He informed me this afternoon that he wants his new baby cousin to be named "Alfie" after Alfie the Excavator, of course. On the way home from church he said, "I told my teacher that I was Rocky, but she didn't understand." The sweetest older lady was his teacher Sunday morning, and I had forgotten to put his name tag on him before class. I can just picture this conversation taking place! :)

"Actually" must be Scott's word of the week. It's been in about every other sentence lately.

For his birthday, I ended up making a Percy cake, AND I bought a store cake at the last minute. Scott and I ran in to chose one from Marsh while Jon and Natalie waited in the car. Scott immediately spotted the rainbow cake and said that he wanted that one. I tried to show him some with balloons, but he was sold on the rainbow. I thought that it looked a bit girly, but got it anyway since he was going to share it with Natalie and all. As I was having the Rainbow-loving cake decorator man write "Happy Birthday Scott and Natalie" across the cake, the negative rainbow connotation hit me. Too late. Oh well. Then, I paid for it and brought it to the car. Jon's first words to me..."You did not let him get a cake with a rainbow on it, did you?" After explaining my thinking and reassuring Jon that he could help Scott select his birthday cake next year, we started talking about how sad it is that a symbol so beautiful given to us by God has been so perverted in our culture to be a symbol of something else. Anyway, the rainbow cake made a hit and was devoured quickly.


Me: Scott, I'm losing my patience because you are not cooperating.
Scott: But NOW I'm cooperating. Do you have your patience back?


A few days ago, Natalie and I ran to the store before Jon had to go in for work. Jon was packing his lunch and explaining to Scott that he would have to go into work soon. Scott said, "But will somebody be here to keep an eye on me?"

Scott is enjoying being THREE and asked us to inform the waiter at the restaurant that he had turned three years old. However, when asked his age at a garage sale this weekend, he told one lady that he was 1 and told another lady that he was 5. Perhaps he was in character as Byron or Rocky at the time...who knows?!!