Throughout the day, Adam likes to explain to Aiden how things work.  Being the little sponge that he is, Aiden loves learning whatever we'll teach him.  During bath time recently, Aiden was busy playing with his bath toys when he zeroed in on a clear plastic cup.  He began pushing it, upside-down, into the water.  He immediately noticed that the water was not going into the cup.  Adam asked Aiden if he knew why the water was staying outside of the cup.  Aiden didn't miss a beat when he shouted, "Science!"

Last night, Aiden was hanging out with Adam in his office.  His eyes spied some Legos in the closet and he politely asked Adam if he could play with them.  Adam acquiesced to his request on the condition that Aiden pick them up once he was done playing with them.  Aiden agreed and the Lego fun commenced.  Fast forward to bedtime...Adam informed Aiden that it was bedtime and that Aiden needed to pick up the Legos, to which Aiden replied, "But you need to help me, Daddy."  Adam indicated that he hadn't played with the Legos and therefore didn't need to help Aiden.  What was our ever-so-clever son's reply?  "Daddy, you knew that I would make a mess and that I wouldn't want to pick them up, so you need to help me pick them up."  Touché.

This afternoon, after we returned home from the preschool fall party at Aiden's teacher's farm, Aiden was taking a bath prior to naptime.  Tonight is bath night, but I upped the occurrence of said bath due to the fact that Aiden was quite sticky and dirty.  (Don't worry...I took LOTS of pictures at the party!)  Anywho...Aiden was enjoying his usual play time during bath time.  I asked him if he was ready to get soaped up as nap time was quickly approaching.  He immediately stopped what he was doing and said, "But I want to watch 'Shaun the Sheep' and play on Daddy's tablet...I want to multitask!"

As a mom of a soon-to-be preschooler, I often smile or chuckle at the things Aiden says and does.  But every once in awhile, there is a moment that is so hilariously awesome that I find myself literally laughing out loud each time I remember said moment.  Today I had one of those moments.  It goes a little like this...

I had just informed Aiden that he would be taking a nap today. He then proceeded to tell me that he didn't need a nap today because he only takes naps on Tuesdays. You can imagine his disgust (and my pleasure) when I told him today was Tuesday. 

The look on his face was pure awesomeness...at least from my perspective.  It was all I could do to stifle the laughter and smile.