Chase says...

Chase comes running excitedly to tell me that he found a lost toy and his throat failed him.
"Mom, why did my voice sound funny?"
         "You must have a frog in your throat."
Shakes head emphatically. "I don't eat frogs with skin on them."
          "No?"
"No!  Just fish with my dad..... cuz I like fish."

Chase says...

"Mom, why can trains hurt you?"
            "Because they are big and hard and can go really fast."
"Like when Chief got hurt?", (referencing The Fox and the Hound.)
             " Yep."
"Is that what they mean when they say :  loog at bell owe?
    (play mad gab with that to find out it strikingly resembles the phrase "look out below!"
               "Yep, that must be why they say that," wondering why he was talking so strangely.
Chase states emphatically, "That's Spanish."



Driving through the outskirts of Tooele Chase sees an LDS church building.
"Is that OUR church?"
              "No, ours is in Stansbury Park."
"Who goes to that church?"
              "Probable the people that live here in Tooele."
"Like Macey, right?"  (referring to the grocery store)

    Lately this kids is all about basketball.  The one in the picture is a special one his dad picked up as a surprise birthday gift/ souvenir from his Las Vegas basketball trip.  He dribbles it all over the house and loves to try and shoot hoops through my arms forming a basket.
    He's still all about hoses and vacuums (even more so than the basketball.)  He is drawn to any sort of item that even resembles a hose: vacuum hoses, air compressor hoses, the hoses you put balls into at the children's museum, straws,  cords, snakes, the list goes on.
     He is very smart and is doing very well in preschool (after a short episode of not allowing me to leave him there.)  He is also doing really well in his primary class, also after a period of not being willing to stay without me or Daniel.
     He is very persistent.  When he decides he wants to do something he will do it.  It's just a matter of time and effort, but he will master it and won't give up trying until he does.  Along with this he has little patience.  When he can't get things to work out immediately he starts to get very frustrated, very much like his dad in both of these aspects.
      He loves trying to make Brody laugh and Brody loves to laugh (sometimes fake laugh), so they make a good team.
      I feel so lucky to get to spend time with him everyday.  We usually have time to hang out in the afternoons when Brody is taking a nap and I really enjoy getting to know him better and enjoy spending that time laughing with him and answering his incessant questions.
      He really challenges me on some really simple things.  He wants to know everything about everything: the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, and WHY of EVERYTHING are very important to him.  I have always been very trusting to the point of being naive and gullible.  I ask about something and accept that, that is that.  It's never really occurred  to me to care about WHAT or Why.   So some of his most simple questions require some thought and searching for answers of my own and I love that he is teaching me so much.
      Chase brings a lot of thought and happiness to our home and we just love him.

Chase (while watching Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving) :  "You're not going to die because you are married."
Me: "Really?"
Chase: "Yes, and I'm not going to die because I went to the kid's temple and the kid married me."
Me: Really?!?"
Chase : "Yes, well actually I still need to go to the kid's temple."
Me: "Do you know where one is? Because I don't"
Chase: "hmmmm.... no but maybe we could ride a really fast cycle to get there."
Me: "Well, how are we going to find it if we don't know where it is?"
Chase: "We could get a map!"
Me: "Ok, that's a good idea, but where are we going to get a map?"
Chase:  "At the store.  There is a kid's store on this Earth!"
Me: "Where is it?"
Chase : "I don't know, but maybe we could ride our really fast cycle to that store."
Me: "How are we going to find it if we don't know where it is?"
Chase: "We could get a map."
Me: "Where's the map?
Chase: "At the kid's store, of course!"

I hate painting...

I can't pick out paint colors, and while trying ended up with 8 different colors trying to find the right one.  I had painted splotches all over the boys room trying to find the right color combos to the point that the walls were almost covered, just with different colors in patches.

Chase, with all the sincerity only a child can have: "Thank you so much for painting my room these colors Mom!" 
.......I guess maybe I should have painted the boys room a little sooner...

I guess this weekend was the first time Chase has gotten sick that he remembers.  It started off with a runny nose and sore throat and we heard things like:

"My nose isn't working very good."
"Why is my nose doing this?"
"Maybe if I blow my nose I could blow all the germs out and get better."

It's so funny to watch these kids discovering how the world works and their bodies. :)

Chase: "Mom can we got to the Johnians?"
"Who are the Johnains?"
Chase: People
Me:"Ok, what people?
C:"They are kinda boys, can we go?"
Me: "Well I'm not sure where you are talking about"
C: "Come on, we'll walk there.  They live at Notgreekan."
Me: "Wow, that clears everything up."
C: "What?"

After a rough night between both boys and Chase sleeping on our bedroom floor he wakes up in the middle of the night and says, "Mom, Mom!" 
Me: "What Chase?"
C: "Was that just your imagination?"
Me: "Yes"
C: "O.K."
..........
Me: "Chase?"
C: (snore)

"Mom, I love you but....  you've GOT to get your hair out of my face."   -Chase as I buckled him in his car seat.

Chase, "Mom are we in the back yard?"
Me: "Nope, we WERE in the back yard, now we are in the front yard."
Chase:  "No mom, we are in the BELLY yard!"
(Get it back/belly :)
We no longer have a front yard, just a belly yard.

Playing at the playground today
Chase to little girl: "HI!  What's your name?"
Little girl: "Mel-A-nie, what's your name?
Chase: "My name is Chaser.  Do you want to play with me?"
Melanie: "O.K.!  Are we friends now?"
Chase: shrugs his shoulders.
I wish making friends was that easy for me.

Chase says...

A conversation with Chase while chopping up some potatoes for dinner.  He kept trying to grab cut up pieces close to my knife.

Me: "Chase!  Keep your hands away, do you know what might happen if you get your fingers too close to    my knife?"
C: (very seriously says,) "Yea, you would cut me up into a potato."
(I'm thinking this sounds interesting, I wonder where it will go..."
Me: " ...and what would happen if I cut you into a potato?"
C:  Still serious, "Then you would cook me up and eat me and I would taste so yummy."
Me:  "Yes, I bet you would taste really yummy."
C:  "No mom!  You don't want to eat me, then you wouldn't have any more Chasers and then you would be so sad."
Me:  "That's true!  So do you think you can keep your fingers away from my knife?"
C: "Yes! I will!"

I love getting a glimpse into the mind of a three year old.

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Chase has taken spotlight on the blog.  I have so many things I need to catch up on but no time.  However, I need to write down these things he says so I always have them.

---See those cute pants he's wearing in that picture?  They are Gap pants that I found for $7.  I couldn't help but buy them and Chase has been wearing them for 6 months.  The other day he finally noticed that they have holes in them and tells me, " Mom, my pants have holes in them."
"I know buddy, aren't they cool?"
"They are OLD! and DIRTY! and you better buy me some new ones."
Since Daniel told me pretty much the same thing when I brought those pants home, It's pretty apparent where he gets his style.


---Brody grabbed Chases foot and Chase replies, "NO!  Broads, don't play with me.  I'm not a good toy for you"!

---Last night at 3:00 a.m. Chase woke up starving and refused to go back to bed.  He saw a pair of socks sitting on our dressing and suddenly became very fascinated with them.  He continually asked us over and over again if we could "shew the socks for him".  When I finally got up to get him some breakfast he saw the George Foreman grill and told me that's just what he needed to "shew the socks so they will grow BIG!"  I was crying from laughing and he was crying because I wouldn't let him plug the grill in to shew the socks.


---This morning Chase found my hot glue gun. "Mom what is this?
"It's a hot glue gun"
"Oh, it's winex."
"No it's a hot glue gun."
"OK, it's a hot glue gun winex."


--  This represents a daily conversation Chase and I have usually numerous times a day.
"What are we gonna do mom?"
"We're going to go for a drive."
"What are we AND gonna do?"
"We are going to go for a drive and find daddy."
"What are and we AND gonna do?"
"We are going to get in the car, drive to South Jordan, find Daddy, AND go to the store."
".... but what are we AANNDD gonna do?"
"Nothing Chase".

Chase says.....

While eating pizza for dinner tonight, Chase puts a piece of crust in his mouth, gets a funny look on his face, spits the bite back out and says, "that one doesn't work!".

Chase says.....

While playing at McDonald's play land, Chase notices a balloon that escaped someones grasp up on the ceiling and says,
 "Mom, Look a balloon."
"Sure enough, there is a balloon."
"Can we get it down?"
"It's too high bud, I can't reach it."
Chase seems stumped for a minute and then remembers a ladder he saw locked up behind the toy area, "can we get the ladder to get the balloon?"
"Sorry Chase, that ladder is stuck."
Defeated he replies, "oh..." After a few seconds his face lights back up.  Another idea! "Mom, we need to fly up to that balloon."
"Ok buddy, go ahead and fly."
He starts flapping wings, grunting and jumping.
After about thirty seconds of trying to fly he admits, "I can't fly to the balloon." and went back to playing.  He didn't even noticed that he had the room full of other parents were laughing and watching the whole incident.

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While Chase was picking up his toys one day, Brody was laying amongst the toys watching Chase.
"Mom could I pick up Brody and put him in the toy box?"
"Nope buddy, that's not a good idea."

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I've been trying to teach Chase important information about Daniel and I and where we live in case something ever happens.  After spending a half hour teaching him Mine and Daniel's name and our last names I started quizzing him.
"Chase what's your name?"
"My name is Chase Torsegan"
"Good what's Brody's name?"
"His name is Torsergan"
"Ok.  What is my name?"
Matter of factly, "Your name is Chase's mom Torgeson."
I can't argue with that.

 (Misspellings of our last name were the different pronunciations he was using.)

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While sitting on the couch feeding Brody,
"Mom, do you want to hold me?"
"Sure bud."
"Do you want to hold me when you are done feeding Brody?"
"Sure thing."
"You can hold me if you want."
I'll take it!  Even if it only lasts for 17 seconds.



What can I say?  Never a dull day with this kid.

Chase says...

After handing Chase a plate with some homemade chicken pot pie on it he grabs a fork full and says " Pe-uw-yuck!  Look momma it looks like poop."

Would you have guessed that he didn't end up eating dinner tonight? :)

Sitting on the computer, I hear Chase in the other room "OH MY CHILD!!"  Can you guess what cursing words we use?

I may have told this one already, but it still applies.  Back about a year ago as we walked through the parking lot on the way to church we told Chase to "watch out for the ice cream" that was melted in the parking lot.  To this day he still says "watch out for the ice cream" as we walk through the church parking lot.  What's really funny is we don't even go to the same building as we did when the original incident happened.

At least once a day Chase walks up to me with his index finger vertical in the air and says " I have a good idea..."  his "good"  ideas usually turn out to be ideas that would have gotten him in trouble.  At least he sometimes tells me BEFORE he destroys something.

When he gets really excited about something we are about to do he almost always exclaims, "That'll be sooo fun!!"  in the most high pitched little squeal you can imagine.

This kid definitely keeps me on my toes!  I sure love him!

While painting the walls brown Chase says excitedly, "Hey look, we're puttin' mud on the walls."

I wonder if that means he likes the color..... or not :)

Chase

This kid is a hoot.  He can throw the best tantrum I've ever seen a 2 year old through, and he's very stubborn sometimes.  He never forgets things.  If he goes to bed wanting to "hold the yellow hose", that's usually the first thing I hear out of his mouth in the morning.  He is almost potty trained (still working on night time).  He has at least triple the energy that I have, I can NEVER keep up with him.  He loves to color and has already colored our desk, computer, mouse, and calculator with a sharpie.  He LOVES, no, is OBSESSED, with hoses and more particularly vacuum hoses and even more particularly Dyson vacuum hoses.  If he wants to watch Winnie the Pooh, he asks to watch " Winnie and Pooh, and Kanga, and piglet, and Gopher.... and Rabbit...... and roo.... and Chrismas Robin.... etc."  Or for Toy story, "Woody, an Buzz, an Jessie, an slincky dog hose, and tomato head... etc." 

He loves Racing cars.  Daniel's work sponsored a race car at Rocky Mountain Raceway and so we have gotten free tickets a couple times.  It hurts my ears to go, but he doesn't mind the noise at all.  He knows all the letters and what sounds they make.  If there is something on the T.V. that he likes, he asks to hold it.  He doesn't understand that it's not really there.  He loves arrows, we always have to stomp on them (painted in the road).  He loves train tracks and especially when we can drive across them.  He still loves cycles, but I think hoses are higher up on the list right now.

He has become a curious little boy.  He already bombards us with questions, "moma are you doing that the shoes?   Are you riding the cycle?, Are you doing this?  Are you doing that?"

A couple funny stories.

- A couple months ago we were visiting Moab and Chase's favorite French "Aunt" was on skype.  He was so excited to talk to her on the computer, but it wasn't long before he wanted her to come jump on the tramp with him.  He was getting very frustrated that she wouldn't jump with him and didn't understand that she was really there.

-  We were in Moab at church one Sunday and he was standing on the seat facing backwards and watching the deacons passing the sacrament.  Suddenly he shouts out, "LOOK!  They're peeing!"  I was too humiliated to look back and see what he was talking about, but when my mom looked back the deacons were all standing in a row with their hands in front of their groins.