How Does He Remember That?

Conner's memory continues to amaze me. I really don't know how he remembers things.

Last week when Conner got dressed I helped him put on his favorite green t-shirt that has a back hoe on the front. "Got this shirt at Target." "Actually, Conner, we got it at the mall." "Ate a pretzle." At first I didn't know what he was talking about. "A pretzle?" I asked. "Conner and, and, and Sheppie ate a preztle." Then I remembered. Yes, the day we bought that shirt on the clearance rack at babyGap, I had bought the boys a preztle to split. That was probably 3 mo ago.

Last week I wasn't feeling well. One night Zack decided to pick up a pizza for himself and the boys. I told Conner and he was pretty excited. He ran into the living exclaiming that he wanted to go with daddy to pick it up. (Zack had taken him along before) He said, "I get the candy!!" "Candy??" I was thinking. What is he talking about. Then I remembered that the guy behind the counter had given him a mint. That was at least a month ago.

Lest you think all the stories have to do with unhealthy food, here's another example of our little sponge. My brother was in Dallas for a few days. He drove down Saturday to visit. He and Conner were chilling together and Daniel asked him to count for him. Conner proceeded to say, "Uno-dos-tres-cuatro-"winko"-seis-"sete". Thanks, Dora...haha! I never taught him that one, but boy do I was I was bilingual. Conner would very easily pick up another language.

Conner and I were talking about Uncle Luke and his new house. Then, of course, we started talking about Uncle Luke's car. I thought I was telling Conner about it, but apparently he already knew what I was going to say. "Conner, Uncle Luke has a Honda." Conner replied, "Yes, a Honda Civic." A couple days later on our walk Conner said, "There's a Honda Civic like Uncle Luke has" (just wanted to write it like he said it=). I was looking around and sure enough, we had just walked by a navy blue Honda Civic. He then said, "Different color". The boy definitely knows his cars. "There's an Escalade...there's an old Mustang...there's a 'W'." (BMW) And he's usually right.