Trucks, Guns, & Milk

Yesterday, Noah happened to be talking to me while I was near my computer, so I started taking dictation. Before I offer this peek into the mind of my 3-year-old, let me just say that while we do technically live in the South, we live in one of the least Southern cities in TN, do not own a gun, have never seen a monster truck, and are not campers. Needless to say, that has not stopped our son from spending hours talking about all of the above.

"All monster trucks are made for good guys. They're high up so bad guys can't get in them. Most monster trucks are too high for bad guys. All bad guys are small - like my GI Joe soldiers. They have to point their guns way up high (demonstrating) 'cause they're so small.

"One day I saw a policman drive by and he was way up high in a monster truck. He was in a pickup monster truck with a door on its back so he can carry stuff around, but he was carrying nothing around. He was just driving around. I didn't know where he was driving, but I just saw him. And then he stopped his truck. Then he opened the passenger door. I don't know why he opened the passenger door. But then he shut it back up.

"GI Joe soldiers speak Spanish because they don't know what the other GI Joe soldiers said. GI Joe soldiers sing songs about God differently from us. They sing like this, "Rur, rur, rur, rur..." (singing like a dog). They stop in the middle of the song because they don't know the whole song, so they can take a rest of singing the song.

"GI Joe soldiers eat food too, 'cause they don't want to die. And they try to stay away from bombs*. One day, a bomb exploded and someone shot the fire with their guns and the fire was dead. But they didn't realize there were some people confused by the explosion. I saw an explosion and a black ball came out, but it didn't have any spikes on it so I thought it was a golf ball. I was camping with my Daddy when I heard the explosion. We had some real guns in our tent so we could shoot anything like a bomb.

(Listening to his preschool's Bible song CD)
"Do you know who else sings the song about Adam and Eve?
Captain Hook. He likes to sing about Adam and Eve. He thinks it's fun."

And lest you think we're all about violence, last night's family movie was Mary Poppins, and the boys LOVED it. We also had a blast with friends at a local dairy farm last week. We can do wholesome. Between conversations about bombs. ;)

*I have to mention that we do NOT watch videos with guns or bombs. He learned what a bomb is from Peter Pan (the Golden book), and he learned about guns from friends.