Cake or death?

Mom was giving me options for what I could have for a snack.

She said, "Your choices are apple or banana."

I replied with, "My choices are cake or death."

She laughed a lot.

Picnic Lunch

Last weekend Mom suggested we have a picnic in the backyard. I said, "Let's have a 4-course lunch!"

So we did!

This was my menu:

Course 1: Yogurt and granola
Course 2: Over easy egg
Course 3: Milk (yes, it's a drink but I wanted it by itself)
Course 4: Cookie

"This is the best lunch I've ever had"

Recent Ben-isms

- "Today was a glorious day."

- "I know!!! We can play Ben10 meets Star Wars meets Batman meets Scooby Doo in Dinosaur Land!!"

- When mom said she liked to cook dinners for 4 people while she and dad were talking to 2 friends, I corrected her, "FIVE people Mom!"

Sheep

Ben: "Does sheep's fur grown back?"
Mom: "Yes."
Ben: "Oh, good"

Mom thinks maybe she should look around for a shorn sheep.

5th Birthday CD

I made a CD for my friends and family that came to my birthday party:


1. Star Wars Main Title - John Williams
2. Doctor Worm - They Might Be Giants
3. 7 8 9 - Barenaked Ladies
4. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
5. Bicycle Race - Queen
6. Rock & Roll High School - The Ramones
7. Snail Shell - They Might Be Giants
8. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
9. The American Astronaut - The Billy Nayer Show
10. Mr. Fancy Pants - Jonathan Coulton
11. Dog Train - Blues Traveler
12. Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton
13. Imperial March- John Williams
14. Skweetis - The Melvins
15. Mission - The Phenomenauts
16. Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds
17. Mr. Roboto - Styxx
18. Get up Offa That Thing - James Brown
19. The House at the Top of the Tree - Thdey Might Be Giants

Bad Guys

You know all guys are really bad guys. Because to the bad guys, the good guys are bad guys because they're trying to fight them.

Umbrella song

I was singing this the other day while dancing around with and pointing an umbrella.

We love the rain
we love pointing our umbrellas up
we left the rainbows all day long
we love to shoot shoot shoot shoot
sha la la la la la la la la
thank you.

Mom says I'm such a boy!!!

Changer

Changer is my superhero. He's as big as the universe but he can live on Earth. Isn't that cool?

He can eat anything. He can even eat glass. So if he breaks glass on the floor he can just clean it up by eating it. And everything he eats tastes like candy. He can even eat bears. He can even eat bear fur. He can even eat red fur! (Mom asked, "What has red fur?") Everything has red fur because Changer wears red goggles!

He can shoot anchors out of his hands at bad guys.

Stay tuned for more Changer details!!

Update 5/31/09
Changer lives on Sun. He has cannons on the Sun that he can shoot at bad guys that are all the way on other planets. When he's on earth though he's the size of a normal person, about my size. He can even fit on Pluto. But when he's not on the planet he's as big as the universe.

He's also friends with Water Man. Water Man shoots water at bad people but doesn't just get them wet when he shoots water, it's a big wave that knocks them over and washes them away.

Changer's car can bounce up and down and over other cars so he never gets an accident.

Update 6/6/09
Changer can fix glass.

He's more than a google years old.

He pretends to be a table, people put food on him then he pops up and everything breaks and spills. He cleans it up and uses his magic wand to make more food for everybody.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Me : why did the chicken cross the road?
mom: why?
me: because she couldn't lay any eggs
mom: well... why did that make her cross the road?
me: because there was a grocery store across the street and she went and bought an egg and put it up her butt so she could lay it.

Destroying the Universe

Mom came into my room today and saw that I had out The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman. She asked me if I was reading it and I said "No, I'm just using it to destroy the universe. That and my list." My list is the alphabet list from Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks. They have all I need to destroy the universe like Monsters and stuff.

Name

I'm going to start a band. Its name will be "Name" and our first song will be called "I Love You". The second song will be "Invisible Sun" about how the Earth really has two suns but one you can't see. I will play drums.

Bee snakes

I had a dream the other night that there was a snake in the house and mom was chasing around with a towel trying to snap it and I was chasing it trying to step on it. It wasn't scary, it was funny. It was a Bee Snake, it was black and yellow striped. It was running away because it didn't want to be snapped or stepped on. We chased it all the way over to Jimmy's where we finally got it. It was so funny.

Imaginary Friend

I told my mom the other day that sometimes, when I'm in the bathroom or by myself in my room, I have an imaginary friend. It's half boy-half girl so its name is boy-girl. I play games with it but I always win because it's imaginary.

Imagination abounds

Today I asked mommy if Neil [Gaiman] put the rain in the clouds. Mommy said "Neil? No." I said, "Well, then who did?" Like there could be no other way. As mommy was trying to figure out what Neil story could have given me that idea, I said "Maybe it was a dream. Sometimes when you're sleeping it's really like you're awake."

Then later I told her that I had the whole universe in my pocket including Pluto, orange juice and sweatshirts.

What will I come up with next?

The secret of the reindeer

I told mom and dad tonight that when I yawn the yawn goes through the walls and up through the ceiling and puts more air into the sky and that's how the reindeer stay up.

I guess everyone should yawn a lot Christmas eve!!

Graveyards and Statues

I was just explaining to Jimmy that sometimes when people die they go into graveyards and become statues. And I saw a statue in Dublin one time that wasn't really a statue but a dead person. Can you imagine that? I saw a real dead person.
I wonder why mom doesn't remember any of this? Jimmy said he saw a statue in San Francisco so I told him it wasn't really a statue but a dead person. Then we decided to watch Winnie the Pooh.

Dear Santa

I sent this letter to santa today:

Dear Santa,
Please can I have R2D2
Love
Ben

I hope I get it!

Shooting stars

I was outside the other night and I came in and told mom and dad I saw a shooting star, but it wasn't shooting.

The short sound of the letter A

Mom and I checked a book out of the library called Cats and it's all about words that have the short sound of the letter A in them. It has sentences like "the cat is on the mat."

I read the whole book! I even sounded out words like Pam and Jack. Pretty soon I'll be able to read mommy my three bedtime books!

ABCDEFG

I'm learning to write my letters. I surprised my mom by writing my name in chalk on the sidewalk so then we wrote the whole alphabet out. I needed help with a few letters but I wrote a lot on my own!