Sep. 29, 2008 - falling apart...
I often forget how literal kids are until I've just scared the pants off of one of my own by making a statement well beyond their capacity of understanding. I remember being at my sister-in-laws before having children and I would often say something to one of her kids only to receive a look of total confusion or blankness from them and a loving rebuke from her prompting me to restate what I was trying to say in a more child-friendly manner. Three children later and I find I haven't learned a thing...
The kids entered the car from Awana the other night with sandwich bags of those brightly covered goldfish-- something they beg for and I always refuse to buy. I tried to bribe them into not eating them by saying I would buy them an all natural equivalent. I was met with the groanings of "Daddy already said we could have them." Well I couldn't take them now... Instead I began spouting all the research I've come across regarding links between food coloring and hyperactivity-- at the kids-- not my husband! I buckled the kids in and got into the passenger seat of the van and proceeded to laugh out loud at the lunacy of what I had just done.
Two nights ago, I put Drew (3) to bed early because he didn't get a nap and was an emotional wreck by 5:00pm. At 6:00pm I informed him that he was getting into the shower and he was going straight to bed afterward because he was "falling apart" and needed rest. The poor kid kept tearing up and insisting "I not, I not." As I dried him off he looked at me all weepily and then looked himself up and down, then slowly and sadly looked up at me again and said, "Mommy, I can't see that I fallin apaut." I hugged him and gave him the interpretion of the silly cliche' I had used.
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Here are a couple of cute things said by the kids as we traveled into Boston by train.
Drew: "That's cool that people live in Boston."
Anne: "Do people live in Boston so they can see the trains?"
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After a history lesson on mummification in Egypt, Anne's only question was, "Are you going to do that to us?"
"Do what to you?"
"Make mummies of us. Me, Drew and Elle. Will you make mummies with us?"
"Uuummm, no..."
Comments
Oct. 4, 2008 - Good stuff!!!
Posted by Bex
Sam, this was great! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! Don't stop writing!!
Oct. 28, 2008 - Aw!
Posted by Gracie
I love the things kids come up with.
But I am missing you. Where are you? Obviously busy...
