pretty, beautiful, and pretty wonderful

A couple days ago while driving along in the car Ben quips, "Mommy, I'm pretty."  Followed with, "I'm beautiful."  I acknowledged and assured him that yes, he was BOTH pretty and beautiful.  A couple comments later he said, "I'm pretty wonderful."
"You are VERY wonderful, indeed," I assured him.

I wondered where he was picking up these terms until we were a little early to school one day and the girls squealed and lined up to hug him.  I knew he liked to play hide and seek with them and they're obviously smitten by Ben.  Today he added, "I'm cool, too," after talking about his beauty so I think he has all his bases covered and there must be some nice "boy" friend also setting him straight.


Just when I stopped calling him beautiful-he finally gets on board.  Standard, I suppose. ;)