This boy

(Jack the Snowman.  Pre-K Christmas Program. Dec 2010)

He certainly keeps me on my toes.

And often (okay, almost always) he has me scratching my head

as I watch the little wheels in his head turning,

wondering what kind of trick he's trying to bamboozle me into. 

For example: Last Wednesday's lunchtime conversation.

Jack:  "Mom, is Captain Hook a bad guy?"

Me:  "Yep."

J:  "So does that mean that he says * STUPID?"

M:  "Uh, I guess so."

J:  "What about I * HATE Peter Pan?"

M:  Yeah, probably.

J:  "Does he say, * FAT?"

M:  (raised eyebrow)....speechless

J:  (wheels spinning faster)  "Mom...what are some more bad words that Captain Hook says?"

Must I continue?

The *starred words are of course a small sampling of the forbidden words at our house.

But of course Jack wasn't saying them. 

Captain Hook was.