As part of my fall-cleaning I took basically all my clothes out of the closet and dumped them on the couch. Left the room for a hot second. Came back. Kiddo stretched out on the couch on top of the pile of clothes.
Me: You comfy?
Kiddo: This is MY spot !

Yep, I still love him :-))))

Kiddo, the one that bitches biiiiiiiig time when I go "no-meat" on him for dinner, just gulfed down 4 man hole-sized latkes and a tub of applesauce. And I really mean man-hole-sized !!!
Me: Like it?
Kiddo: YEAH !

No words left :-)

So, I am in this fall-cleaning frenzy.
Kiddo has to help. All fine with him.
We took the balcony furniture down to the basement and I brought up a box.
Kiddo: What do you need THAT for ?
Me: I'm putting my summer clothes into hibernation.
Kiddo: Why?
Me: Does it look like I'm gonna wear my summer dresses anymore ?
Kiddo: I wear mine year-round.
Me: Your summer dresses?
Kiddo: Sure.

A minute later:

Mohooooooooooooooom !!!

*lol*

For all my German/English speaking friends:

Kiddo (handing me something): You can behold that.

I am so so so shooting myself !!

;-(

What is it with kiddo?
Shortly before bedtime (which is 10 pm) he runs into the living room.
Doing an Elvis, then a Chuck Norris with the shadows on the wall,then throws himself next to me "Hey Mom, what's up?", then goes into a rendition of some 80's song, then steps on the balcony and throws his arms up in the air "Ahhhhhh, what beautiful air!", then dares me to a boxing match and then says "Ok, gotta go to bed. Good night!"
Uhm .......

Now these are the conversations I can't stand - especially not before 7 am.
Kiddo: Are you going down to the basement today?
Me: The basement? What would I do there? Why would I go there?
Kiddo: So, you are not going.
Me: Give me a good reason why I would go there and tell me why you are asking.
Kiddo: I have school until late and then I immediately need to get to rowing.
Me: And that has WHAT exactly to do with me going down to the basement?
Kiddo: If you are going down there you could drop my gym bag next to my bike in the basement and I wouldn't have to walk up to get it but could go straight to rowing.
Me: See? THAT makes sense to me. A simple reason. And why not just ask me if I would mind dropping the bag down there at some point during the day?
Kiddo: So you are going down to the basement?
Me: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

"Do you say the door close good-bye"

That was what kiddo just said to me on his way out.
I will just assume that he really wanted to say:
"Will you say good-bye and close the door?"

Otherwise I would have to shoot myself ;-(