Out of the mouth of my babe

A few things Biscuit has said recently:


Riding for the brand: Biscuit and Jeff love Western movies. Biscuit loves them for the cowboys and horses. And Jeff loves them for, well, the cowboys and horses. One of his favorite sayings from the old Westerns is when a cowboy says he's riding for the brand. It's basically the cowboy saying that he is loyal to the ranch he's riding for. He tried to use the line on Biscuit, but Biscuit didn't really catch on.

Here was their conversation:

Biscuit: I'm going to ride my horse. Say hey to Pinto.

Jeff: Hey, Pinto.

Biscuit: Dad, say "That's some good riding, Biscuit."

Jeff: That's some good riding, Biscuit. Are you riding for the brand? Biscuit: No. I'm riding for town.


Arm strings: Biscuit and my Mama were sitting together talking.

Biscuit: Your arms have strings, Grandmama.

Grandmama: My arms have what?

Biscuit: Strings. See? (as he rubs the hair on her forearm) I don't have strings. See?

Grandmama: You will someday.


Cookie message: We had Chinese food for dinner tonight. When it was time for fortune cookies, I helped Biscuit open his.

"Mom, my cookie has a note in it," Biscuit said.

"Yes, it does," I said. "And the note says you will travel many places in your lifetime."


Golden books: Jeff's Mama saved all of the Little Golden books from Jeff's childhood and gave them to us when Biscuit arrived.

We put them on a shelf in Biscuit's room, and now that he is in his big-boy bed, he can help himself to the books whenever he wants.

It's so fun to wake up to a swooshing sound over the baby monitor and realize it's Biscuit flipping through some of his books.

Biscuit is still obsessed with horses and fire trucks, so books about those two topics are always on top.

The other day, Biscuit brought a book to Jeff and asked him to read it. It was a book about Paul Revere, complete with a horse on the cover.

"What's this book about?" Jeff asked Biscuit. Biscuit looked at the cover and thought for a minute.

"It's about a pirate cowboy on a horse, Dad," he said.

It sounds odd, but if you look at the cover, can't you see it?