Sometimes you have to take a second look at a child’s logic and wonder if they were actually more on the ball than you give them credit for. This morning Sam was getting dressed and his shirt was twisted inside out. Holly explained that he needed to turn his shirt inside out for it to fit. He looked at his shirt curiously while he turned it about and finally reiterated the task and said, “I’m turning my shirt outside out.”

I was getting ready in our room and overheard the conversation and stopped when Sam said his version. What made me stop was the logic Sam had applied to his task actually made more sense than the normal phrase. Sam needed to get the ‘outside’ of his shirt to the outside of the twisted up shirt. So when he said outside out, it actually made sense.

Holly and I then had a 5 minute discussion on why Sam’s version was better. In the end she thought I had an even more tilted view of realty… maybe she’s right.

Sam went to his first movie in a theater on Sunday. We took him to see Wall-E and he loved it! Sam and I arrived a little early for the first matinée showing and he was a little concerned that we weren’t going to see the movie. So we went for a quick walk and when we came back the gates had opened to the lobby. I got our tickets and a kid’s popcorn pack for him (yes, including a Sprite pop too).  If you looked at him after we sat down in the theater you’d thought I just took him to Disneyland. The movie previews went by and Sam thought they were just short little movies (which made the movie even more exciting). Once Wall-E started, he sat there as if this was his 12th movie. We got to a slow scene, and as if on cue, he said we should go potty so we don’t miss any of the movie. We came back and he sat through the rest of the entire movie.

In usual Saturday fashion we got our shopping lists out for morning errands and planned to go out to eat. We got there and Sam immediately said he had to go to the bathroom. I took him in and as we finished up Sam noticed the automatic paper towel dispenser. Sam waved his had in front of it once to ‘see if it works’. He got his paper towel portion and was going to rip it off. As he tried to tear it off, his hands got too close to the sensor and the dispenser ran again. Sam didn’t want this to happen so he shook his hands saying ‘no, no, no’. Well that prompted the dispenser to run again which made Sam wave his hands with even more determination to say no.

You can see the vicious cycle that started between man and machine. I finally stepped after the 5th time the dispenser kicked out more paper towels. I’m giggling the entire time and Sam is frustrated he couldn’t make the dispenser stop, so he looks up at me and says ‘Daddy stop laughing, that wasn’t funny’.

Which of course made me laugh even harder.