"But I want to..."

If I had a nickel for every time Jack said this, I would be rich now. Yeah, I know what you're saying, he's only 3, hasn't been talking that long. You're right, but I hear it hundreds of times a day!!! Most of our conversations go something like this:

Jack: "Mommy, where are we going today?"
Me: "We need to go to the store, Jack."
Jack: "I want to drive the car at the store." (The grocery store has carts that have cars in the front.)
Me: "Well we're not going to that kind of store today."
Jack: "But I want to drive the car."
Me: "Well when we need to go to the grocery store, you can."
Jack: "But I want to."

Today, we had this conversation:

Jack: "It's raining outside."
Me: "Yes, it is."
Jack: "I want to play outside."
Me: "But Jack, it's raining. You'll get wet."
Jack: "But I want to."
Me: "You want to play in the rain and get wet?"
Jack: "No."
Me: "Well then you can't play outside."
Jack: "But I want to."

Sometimes it takes on a different variation:

Me: "Jack, it's time to get ready for bed."
Jack: "But I want to play."
Me: "Jack it's bed time, we can play tomorrow."
Jack: "But I want to play just a little bit longer."
Me: "Jack, I said it's time to go to bed."
Jack: "But I don't want to sleep!"

I think you get the idea about how a lot of our conversations go. It's a little frustrating but I know he's just testing everything.

These next pictures are of Jack & Jarred building an airplane with their Tinkertoys. Notice I said, "their". Jarred was not satisfied with the set that Jack got for his birthday. There were just not enough Tinkertoys to build really big things. So, I got Jarred another set for our anniversary and they combined the set and decided that both sets were equally theirs. Tonight, they built a plane. Jack does pretty good paying attention to what Jarred does and helps when he can.