"Mama no sing!"

I was singing to Evie.  Because she likes it.  She lights up as soon as I start, no matter what it is that I'm singing.  So, while I was making dinner last night, I sang to her.  Henry was playing on the iPad and Evie and I were grooving to any variety of songs of my choice.  After about 10 minutes, Henry turned around and said, "Mama, 'top," and held up his hand, palm facing me.  You know, telling me to stop.  I didn't.  I kept going.  He waited maybe another minute before saying, "Mama!  'Top!  No sing!"  I looked at him and said, "Henry.  Mama is going to sing.  Baby likes it when mama sings."  Then my little brat said to me, "No!  Mama no sing!  Yucky!"  I stared at him for a moment before asking him, "are you saying that it's yucky when mama sings?"  "Yeah.  Yucky.  Mama no sing!"  I need to learn not to ask questions I don't want to know the answer to.

Down the slide

This is from an email Aunt Amy sent on 3/27/2014:

Today while cousins and siblings played, temptation proved to be too much for Mr. Henry. We have a “no pushing” rule at the Terlizzi playground and for the most part, all three children are very good about this rule. For the most part. 

As you can see below Brooklyn is looking down the slide, deciding whether or not she wants to go down head-first.  It’s risky. Mulch in the mouth is always a possibility. Notice Henry behind Brooklyn….

Henry decides he has no choice but to seize this golden opportunity and gives his cousin a “helpful” push down the slide so she no longer has to make the tough decision for herself as to whether or not, to go down head-first. (see Brooklyn’s “Whoa” face, and Henry’s complete delight in his decision):

HENRY: She’s. not. laughing. 

HENRY: I’m gonna hang up here for awhile.

CARTER (climbing up quickly): Don’t go down there man. 

Uncle Geoff's Cookies

I told Henry we were going to make cookies for Uncle Geoff's birthday. He said, "I bake cookies?" I said "yes."  He said, "Enny eat cookies?" I said, "well, you can eat a few but they're for uncle Geoff." And he said, "Enny eat unka Jess cookie all gone!" Then mimicked Cookie Monster gobbling cookies.  I was only able to capture the below video, though I tried to get him to do the cookie monster thing again.

"I Love My Dollhouse"

We were sitting in Henry's room, mama in the chair rocking Evie and Henry playing in his dollhouse when he stopped, gave the house a big hug and said, "Mama, I yuv my dah-haus."  I told him that he needed to tell Aunt Amy thank you for it.  He said, "Dent-dou, Aie Mai-mee."  I smiled and said he needed to tell her what he's thanking her for.  So he said, "Dent-dou, Aie Mai-mee, I yuv my dah-haus."  I told him that he needed to remember to tell her next time he saw her and he said, "no.  Now.  On phone."