A few Joelisms

My third boy has his own vocabulary. If he doesn't know a word for something, he simply makes one up that fits into his knowledge base. For example, my sister and her two youngest boys were visiting us last week. Mindy walks into the boys bedroom where Joel is just walking out and when he sees her, he stops, looks up at her with an accusing look on his face and says, "Why didn't you bring your netters? He said you have netters! You should have brought your netters!" I am dying laughing and she is looking at me very confused. She asks if I know what he's talking about and I tell her I do (but only because he and I had a similiar conversation earlier in the evening). He had ripped his baby sisters doll and wanted me to sew it back up for him. But since he didn't know the word 'sew' he asked if I would net it for him. I asked what he was talking about and he said, "You know, get your netters down and net it back up for me." Well, I didn't do that so he apparently had a conversation with his cousin who amazingly knew exactly what he was talking about because he told him that his mom has lots of those! I think he was on a mission to find his Aunt Mindy and ask how she could have forgotten to bring her netters. She catches on quickly and tells him she does have netters but she just forgot them at home. He's pretty mad at us all by this point and just stomps off...

Jonah came down and was excited that I made him his favorite dinner, pb&j, and exclaims, "That rocks the beat, mom!" He said he heard it on tv. Ok. So a few minutes later, Joel comes down and sees that he gets chicken tetrazinni and exclaims, "That rocks the bait!" I don't think they watched the same show...