Quotables: Joshua
Joshua enjoys the occasional shower. The occasional LONG shower. He’ll load his cars, boats, submarine, sharks, action guys and octopi into the shower and shout orders (“FIRE!”, “HERE COMES THE DOCTOR!”, “WATCHOUT!”) and explodey sound effects until his hands are prunetastic and the water gets cold. As MC pulled him out of the shower today, she said “Whoah! You’re hands are like raisins!” Joshua quickly replied, “Yeah. Grampas must stay in the shower all day.”
Despite my disdain for the prequels, I’ve been slowly introducing Joshua to the world of Star Wars thanks to its kid friendly robots, lasers, ships and explosions. Tripping droids are hilaaaarios! General Greivous (until recently known only as “the bumpy guy”) isn’t scary– he’s “my favorite!” And so it is that Joshua and I have been watching the new Clone Wars cartoon together. As mentioned, Joshua has just grasped the “bumpy guys” name, which he is currently and innocently pronouncing as “General Grab@$$”. Which I guess is better than how he used to pronounce “Truck”.
Joshua thinks Iron Man is really cool. We picked up the Blu Ray and entertain Joshua with choice scenes and laugh as they get all hyped up, excited and literally yelling with wonder. The “go-to” scene is where two F-22s chase Iron man over the Afghan Desert. The pilots refer to him as a “bogey”, which caused Joshua to ask, “Why do they call him a boogie, Papa?”
MC has recently returned to her country roots, blasting country music in the car. I think that’s close to reckless child endangerment but it’s all a matter of perspective, I guess. Either way, MC likes to sing the Carrie Underwood song “Jesus take the Wheel“. As they were driving the other day, Joshua must have been a little concerned as he said, “Mama, you’re driving speedy. You need Jesus to take the wheel.”
Carrie Underwood is amazing. I got lucky enough to see her in concert at the Strawberry Festival. Such a talent.