Joshy and the dinosaurs

Joshy has been going through his dinosaur phase as encouraged by his teacher at his former daycare. He knows names of dinosaurs that I have never heard of and loves to sit and watch all sorts of dinosaur videos on YouTube. The funny thing is that he will ask for them by some descriptive detail in one of the opening scenes. So, it is not, can I watch the video with the tyrannosaurus rex and the triceratops but instead he will say, "I want to watch the purple one". I have just learned through trial and error that he means the video where the dinosaurs head in the opening scene looks purple. If you don't hit the right one, he will tell you so and remind you that he wants the purple one. Oh okay, well let me just click on every one of the 2000 dinosaur videos on YouTube until we find the one you are looking for. We learned fast the joys of bookmarking. Many nights he runs around acting out the roll of dinosaur. At first it was more of a muted growl that was precious and entertaining. Now, it has developed into a bellowing deep throated burst of noise that leans a little more towards psycho than dino. You never really see it coming and the best is that the roar knows no bounds. This is not merely a "inside" growl but he has growled at people in the mall, on the street or anywhere else he gets the urge. Oh and if you are not paying attention, it will scare the crap out of you. Still, if he is not growling at people, he is saying hello. Well, not just hello. He will say "Hi" and then turn to us and say "I said hi...I am friendly". Very good Joshua. Whenever he is a dinosaur/snake/lion/fill in the blank, he always qualifies it as "good"___ or "bad"____. We of course cuddle with the good and run screaming from the bad until mom and dad get tired and say "how about a dino video" in our best excited tone. Tonight as we were allowing him to watch one dinosaur video before he went to bed, he this time asked to watch a video where dinosaurs ate people. Nice. It always amuses me the connections his brain makes. Or that a three year old already wants to see footage of people being dismembered and chewed. At least he didn't ask to see a video of the "parasaurolophus" again. Try figuring out what in the world a three year old is getting that when he spits that out in toddler speak.