Conversations with Tate

On New Year's Day, we had chicken and dumplings for dinner. He was negotiating to get a cookie. I told him he had to eat some of his chicken and not just the dumplings.
Tate: "But I don't like chicken!"
Me: "Really, since when?"
Tate: "Since tomorrow."
Me: "Oh good, then you can still eat it today. I think you meant yesterday."
Tate: "No! I meant last year."
Me: "Well, it is a new year today."
Tate: *sighs* "Oh."

 

Tate's favorite animal is the giraffe. He got a book about them for Christmas. We were reading about how they move their necks to help them run faster.
Me: "Can you imagine how silly I would look if I moved my neck like that when I run?!" I started moving my neck back and forth to demonstrate. "I think I would look like a chicken!"
Tate: "Or a giraffe."
The funniest part of that conversation was that he said it with a little half smile like he knew he was being clever.
Experimenting with words or just honest mispronunciation?
On a road trip, Michael asked,  "We are stopping in Macksville because I have to go to the bathroom, do you need to potty too?"
Tate replied, "Assville? Why are we stopping in Assville?"
Another instance:
Me: "Tell Mimi what you said about Mayer this morning when he was making us laugh."
Tate: "I said, 'he's crapping me up!'"
Me: "No, that's not what you said."
Tate: "Yes, I did, 'he's crapping me up!'"
Me: "No, you said, 'he's craCKing me up!'"
Tate: "Yeah, he was being so funny."

He is still singing his favorite Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." He can sing most of the lyrics, with a little help. On his own, he gets confused by first, second, etc. When he sings it, he sings one verse over and over again, "on the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree." I have a hard time helping him because I get confused by all the items beyond the five golden rings! lol