the mind of a 4 year old

It cracks me up… the things that come out of the mind of a 4 year old. Sometimes I feel like they have such a ‘raw’ sense of things that they teach me a thing or two.

My 4 year old son walked up to me today, looked me in the eyes and said that he wanted to tell me something.

Son: “You know that green Power Ranger that was missing its arm?”
Me: “Yeah.”
Son: “I fixed it this morning…just put his arm back in.”
Me: “Great job…what…are you a doctor?”
Son: “Um…NO but then when I was fixing his arm I broke off his leg. (with a familiar ‘oopsie’ look on his face)”
Me: “Well that stinks.”
Son: “Yeah, I guess it is not bad. I would be bad if I broke off both of his legs cuz then if he wanted to go somewhere he’d have to bounce around on his butt.”
Me: “Yep! It sure is a good thing.” Then I burst out laughing.

And then…..

not more than 5 minutes later he walked up to me and said: “Dad…you know what?” I turned to him as he continued by saying, “You know what I do when I have a fart coming but it does not come out?” I responded with a puzzled look as I tried to hold back a burst of laughter and “What buddy?” He then continued, “I go like this.” (Squatting down and resting his elbows on his knees…with his toosh in firing position.)