Friday, April 03, 2009

Jackson strikes again!

Jackson has been very quotable this vacation. Here are two little tidbits:

I called the kids - we were going to go to bounce on the "EuroBungee" - a huge thing at one of the local outdoor malls where you get harnessed in and you can bounce about 20 feet in the air. Really cool.

Liam: "I don't want to go golfing."
Bella: "We're not. We're going bungee jumping."
Maddie: "No. EURO Bungee."
Jackson: "NO. YOU'RE-A- Bungee."


A big part of the mystique of coming down to my dad's place is the legendary muffins served on the golf course. Liam and Maddie went to hit a bucket of balls while I had Bella and Jackson at the pool. My dad returned with a muffin for Jackson, sat him down at the table at the pool and proceeded to break it in half for him. Jackson no likey. Anytime something he's eating breaks in half, he bursts into tears and cries for about 10 minutes, ususally. Unless he's tired, and then it's 20. I usually just walk away from him, but my dad isn't used to it, plus we were in public, so we couldn't just let him cry. It took him about 30 minutes and a ride in the golf cart to get over it.

So, last night we were driving back from the beach and he was eating a breakfast bar and... it broke. We all braced ourselves for the tears that would come. And they came. I gave him some suggestions:
Kat: "Can you put it back together?"
Jackson: "Noooooooo...."
Kat: "Should we throw it out the window?"
Jackson looks out the window and sees people walking by. He laughs. "I fwow it out da window an hit dat guy! Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! I fwow it out da window!"

He laughs for a little while and then says. "Gwapa. I 'powogize. I 'powogize."