If you've been reading our blog for awhile you know that Jack is slightly obsessed with people making good choices and bad choices and has, on more than one occasion, begged me to go find the cars of people who made a bad choice and cut us off. He told us on the way to StL that he wanted to be a policeman when he grows up.
He also seems to have developed a little alter ego that whisper-repeats things that really strike him as important (or words he doesn't know).
Both of the afore-mentioned traits exhibited in one concise conversation:
Momma: "When people make good choices, good things happen. Like you made good choices with Daddy and then I took you sledding. And you made good choices while we were sledding, so we had hot chocolate when we got home."
Jack: "Yeah, dat was fun!"
M: "But if people make bad choices, then bad things happen - like that man who got pulled over by the policeman."
J: "It's okay if he needs help from the policeman, Momma."
M: "Oh, definitely, but I think that man actually broke some rules, so the policeman is writing him a ticket."
J: "WHY????"
M: "Well, when you are an adult and you break rules, you have to pay money."
J: (not-so-stage whisper) "Paaay moneeeeey..."
M: "See, adults have to follow rules too. And if you don't follow the rules a bunch of times, they take you to jail." (I'm not sure I can explain why I decided to share all of this with him, except that I was bored in the car and it seemed like a good transition into a talk about him behaving more.)
J: "And sometimes, if you are really bad, they put your face on a building... (not-so-stage whisper)...buuuiiilding."
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Okay I don't get the part about putting your face on a building. He's going to see a billboard with Lance Armstrong or Gandhi or somebody on it and think ... (stage whisper) baaad maaaan ....
Oops - didn't explain that fully. He means "billboard" and he's referring to the billboard we saw coming into StL that is basically a techy Wanted poster.
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