My 3yr Olds Words That Rendered Me Speechless

Luke-Xavier is surely going into either Special Forces or the X-games.

First off, he’s fearless. No surface is too high to jump from, no hill too steep for rolling down, head-first. He’s been standing on a skateboard since he could stand and jumping onto his siblings bikes since he could climb (which was remarkably early). No door is beyond his unlocking abilities and his bedroom window constantly begs him to climb out of it. Secondly, he’s tough! He’ll jump right into a skirmish with his older brothers and leave them crying, every time. His head is full of ways to do battle and he’s always pretending to wield a sword or shoot up anything in his way.

In one of these shooting sessions, I saw him point his “gun” (his finger) at Max, shoot him and then declare that he was dead. After seeing this, I brought out my stern voice and said, “Lex! We DO NOT shoot people! Not EVER!”

He looked me in the face and without missing a beat said, “Daddy does”.

How the heck do you argue THAT with a military child who knows his father is in a war zone and is keeping us “safe from the bad guys”?!

Hmmmm…~