Out of The Mouth of My Grandson

by Catherine Fox (my grandma... writing about my little brother)

    My four-year-old grandson, Ty, and his family went to a fast-food place for lunch. While they were waiting for their food, he crawled under the table. When the server came with the a loaded tray, his mother said, "Ty, get up and sit down. It's time to eat." Ty reached up to get hold of the edge of the table to pull himself up, but he grabbed the edge of the tray instead. He pulled, and the whole tray of food showered down on him. He lay there with food and drinks spilled all over him , with everyone in the place looking at him. He looked up at his dad and said, "Don't...tell anyone I'm down here!" 

    Ty had to be in the hospital when he was five. One day he said to his mother, "I told the nurse I had a BME."
"That's good," she said, "'but what's the E for?"
"That's a silent E," he informed her.
He wasn't in school yet, but he learned about silent E's from his school teacher dad.

Ty, age 5

    Ty's dad, Norm, had always been an avid New York Yankee fan, and so was his son. When Ty was about five, his mother asked him, "Why do you think the Yankees are so special? Do you suppose it's because your daddy thinks they're so great? Who do you think you'd like if he liked the Dodgers?"
    After a few seconds of thought, he answered, "Well, I don't think I would even like HIM!"

    One morning, when Ty was in his early teens his dad became ill, passed out in the bathroom and hit his head on something. His wife, who is a nurse, had him lying on the couch recuperating when Ty came out of his room and asked what happened. When his mother told him, he said, "Well, Dad, I know what you hit your head on. You hit it on the toilet because your face is all flushed."

    Some years later, the family came to our home for dinner one evening. My husband had just had surgery and couldn't stand up to shower. So we put a little wooden three-legged stool in the bath tub for him to sit on. Ty went into the bathroom and when he came out he was carrying that stool. I thought, "Oh, boy, I wonder what's coming now?"
    Ty announced, "I found a loose stool in your bathroom!"