So much Personality in So Few Words

Pretend play with his cars

Sarge: Hi, Mater. I want to ride in your fire truck.
Mater: You don't want to ride in my fire truck.
Sarge: but I DO want to ride in your fire truck. May I ride in your fire truck please?
Mater: Okay. But there is too many cars in my fire truck. You don't fit.
Sarge: I fit. (tried to jam Sarge in the fire truck but didn't work) Oh no! What we do, Mater?
Mater: Let me think. Ah, I know! Guido, come pick up me to the coffee table please? (got Guido the forklift to lift Mater out of the fire truck)
Sarge: Yay! Now there are more spaces for me. I can ride in the fire truck. Thank you, Mater.
Mater: You're welcome!



Little helper in the kitchen

*
May I help you make some eggs, mommy?
Sure!
Yay! I gotta get my time-out chair. Wait for me, mommy! Don't do anything. Wait for me.

**
What you doowin, mommy?
I'm making your breakfast.
Hot ce-yo-yo?
Yeah. Would you like some yogurt too?
No. Mommy, I want to help you make hot ce-yo-yo.
Oh, thank you, but mommy's almost done.
And you put in the oven?
No, in the microwave.
I want to put it in the mi-co-wave.
Mmm... How about you help mommy close the door and set the time on the microwave?
Okay.
(while it was heating the hot cereal)
Mommy, I made my lunch... Er, I mean, breakfast, alllllll by myself!



Watching out for everybody

*(while driving out of the parking lot at school)
I need my sunglasses and, mommy, you need your seatbelt.

**
You're having the hiccups, daddy. You need some water. (handing daddy his Lightning McQueen water bottle) It feels you good.

***
While we were at a BBQ party at a friend's house, Kai saw, for the first time, someone he didn't know holding his baby sister. Right away, he put his food down and got up from the floor, "I have to get Weiwei," he said as he walked away from the TV show he was watching with all the kids.



Mr. Good Manner

* on the way home from my aunt's
Thank you for taking me to yi-puo's house, daddy.

** on the way home from school
Thank you for picking me up, mommy. And daddy dropped me off this morning.



Mr. Bossy pants

* No, mommy. I want daddy take me to brush teeth. You go pick up Weiwei and sit on the couch.

** Hold on, Aiden (his playmate at school)! I'm coming..... Mommy, I have to look at the bug with Aiden for five minute. You stand right here. Just a sec.

***
Crawl with me, daddy.
I don't think I can crawl that fast, Kai. It's gonna break my knees.
You gotta try, daddy. You just gotta try.