Fifty-Five

Rowan just saw a picture of Harriet Beecher Stowe on my Kindle screen saver (I don't get to pick them) and said: "That's Grandma!!!"

Fifty-Four

Rowan trying to justify being able to do something we told him not to do: "Mom! I'm a big boy, I'm seventeen!"

Fifty-Three

Rowan told us a story at dinner: "I was just reaching for the iPad, and some guy hit my hand away, and then he hit me in the face, and then he shot me..." Us: "Uhhh, yeah?" Rowan: "...Yeah! And then I tried to boom him, but he wouldn't die." Two things: 1. We don't own an iPad nor has he ever been near one. 2. He really is this dramatic all the time.

Fifty-Two

Omgggg. Rowan is playing with a tiny little toy washer and he's saying, "You put the clothes in the washer and now you need 'oxoclean'. You need winning 'oxoclean!" If only we got paid every time he endorses a toy as a real prodcut of his during imaginary play.

Fifty-One

Rowan's first ever letter to Santa:

Dear Santa,

Thank you. Thank you for presents. Maybe I can help you next year. I can show you karate kicks! What do you want for your birthday? I love you.

♥ Rowan

Fifty

I took a cracker from Rowan and he yelled at me by saying, "Mommy! There's NO swiping on Christmas!! Now you're on the naughty list!" Thank you NickJr for playing the Dora Christmas special every day since November.

Forty-Nine

Rowan selected "The Fast and the Furious" on Netflix all by himself to watch. I forgot how bad that movie is, in more ways than one. I told him he had to turn it off because it wasn't a good movie for little kids. So what does he pick next? "Rush Hour 2" because he recognized "JACKIE CHAN??!!" on the picture for it. Hahahaha. He loves Jackie Chan. I'm serious.