Last night my 5 year old decided to tell a story, which the 3 year old listened to with rapt attention. After her big sister’s story wound down, the 3 year old jumped in with her own story, but was immediately interrupted. “You’re supposed to start with ‘once upon a time’,” advised the 5...
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My two 9-yr-old sons were discussing their ardent wish to become police officers. “It would be so cool. You get to use guns and Taser and learn martial arts and drive a police car really fast with the lights on….” My 13 year old son helpfully remembered something he’d read about police officer training....
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One of my 9 year old sons, a Korean adoptee, was born missing his right foot and wears a prosthetic leg. He has never been really self-conscious about it– wears shorts every day of the year that I will possibly allow it, loves to swim, etc. But when he was little, he wasn’t always...
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Today my five year old came into the kitchen. She was carrying a slightly crumpled sequin-studded pink cardboard crown and wearing a frown. “Who threw my crown away? I found it in the garbage!” “I don’t know, “ I said, hoping it hadn’t been me. “I think it was (16 year old brother), “she...
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My 10 year old daughter has been home from Ethiopia for five months. The other day she asked for a piece of gum. I told her no, saying that it would be dinner time soon. She sighed heavily. “But my mouth is so quiet!”
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My 5-1/2 year old has her first TWO loose teeth! (My baby– sob!) This evening she was showing them to me and said, “Look, mom. This one is really wigglish!”
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This evening we were watching the movie The Railway Children (a good family flick by the way!) and in one scene a boy is shown in a bed that was SOOOOO narrow that my 13 year old son said, “I’d fall out of both sides of that bed!”
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“God made the land and all the people, even us, but first He started with the Bible characters.”
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While watching a fight scene with a female villain in the movie ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, our two year old was heard to say with a tsk-tsk: “She is such a bad dirl!”
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In case you’ve ever wondered, if any of your children (for example, two fresh-from-Ethiopia grade-schoolers) ever decide to call 911 just for fun — twice — and hang up both times — the sheriff WILL be coming to your house. He’ll stand in the entryway looking around to make sure everyone looks ok. And...
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