Wild Things

"Dylan's wild!" is one of Abbey's favorite comments, especially since we recently checked out Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendack) from our library. 

Sometimes she uses it as an explanation for his frustrated tantrums, but sometimes she uses it as her highest compliment, such as when they're playing together, and he's crawling after her at warp speed and laughing like crazy.  During those moments, between giggles, she might interject: "WE'RE wild!"

Demonstrating his true place amongst the Wild Things, Abbey gleefully pointed out that Dylan, "has a horn like Max!  Max has two, but Dylan has only one horn!"  I didn't have the heart to tell her that Max's "horns" are really just the ears on his wolf costume.  Or that Dylan's horn is just a symptom of a bad hair day.

I'm not going to contradict a Wild Thing.

she's drawing a picture of "Wild Dylan"

he's waiting for me to turn around so he can eat the dry-erase crayon

seriously, Mommy, I won't eat it, I promise