Reading cjane's recent copycat debacle reminded me of the little ditto-er I've got under my own roof. (Yes I know, I don't have a cjane or nienie button. I also haven't updated my sidebar pictures in a year and a half. Get over it. I do read both frequently; in fact, I even donated a pregnancy for nie day last August. See.)
Countless are the times I've heard, "Mom, Jake's coffeying me!" (To which I respond, "Then say 'Jake is not very smart!'" Doesn't everyone?)
However, Jake does come up with some great original zingers. He's a riot. A couple weeks ago, he stunned me by announcing:
"If I'm ever attacked by skeletons, I'm just going to say: 'Hey, how are you even moving without any muscles?'"
Hysterical brilliance, right? So I thought, and so I shared with anyone in hearing distance. My apologies for bragging: My boy's a genius!
Because shortly thereafter, all was revealed. In the background played an episode of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (I was totally won over by the episode with the tempting river of horchata--seriously, who writes this stuff?). Manny and Frida were being attacked by skeleton amigos (of course), when Frida stops the lord of the skeleton amigos cold by saying, "Hey, how are you even moving without any muscles?" After which the fierce skeleton crumples into a pile of bones.
WHAT?
My boy's not a comic genius? He's a (gulp) copycat? A (horrors) plagiarist? Darnit. Is there no original thought left?
Maybe he was just quoting.
**I couldn't decide between the two pictures, so you're getting a double shot of Jake! Apropos, don't you think?
6 comments:
I love that kid, copycat or not, he is still a smarty pants in my world, at least he remembered it.
So funny!
That's so funny. I loved this story!
And those baby photos in the previous post are scrumptious. What a cutie.
Way to quote, Jake. Kate is way into quoting movies and i think is hilarious. That's not being a copycat, it's just showing how good his memory is.
I check nienie, too. i had a button there for a while.
The same kind of thing has happened here!!! I thought Evan was so clever and I realized he got his fantastic quip from a cartoon.
It hurts. I understand.
He is so handsome!
That's okay. He is still the most handsome little boy that side of Carson. BTW, on our trip in CA I overheard McKenna and her cousin Emma talking. Emma says to McKenna, "my name is Emma Elizabeth Hibbits, what's your name?" McKenna responds, "McKenna Diane Coleman. Soon I'm going to change it." Emma asks what she'll change it to. McKenna says, "McKenna Crossman, but I need to check with Jake first."
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