This morning while taking the twins to school my five yr old daughter's voice yelled from the back of the van, "Mommy, can we walk to school?" I laughed and told her, "You all barely made it home from school the day the van broke down. It's too far to walk." To which my little John John(oldest twin) quipped, "Yeah, I almost didn't survive". I just about bust a gut when he said that. I was laughing so hard. I looked at him in the rear view mirror and he had these cheesy little grin on his face.
As we pulled into the parking lot at school, I told him "I know, you should be on that one show I shouldn't be Alive. You walked a total of 1 and a half miles that day John John, forget being stranded in the Mojave desert or on a polar ice cap in freezing temps, walking from school on a warm spring day a mile and a half I AM surprised you made it alive". I giggled and he grinned.
My kids are hilarious sometimes.
I wish I'd write down more often some of the things that escape their mouths, instead of waiting to blog them.
Yesterday as the kids were coming inside for the night my daughter looks at me with this silly girly crush look on her face and told me "I told Gus that I love him". If you could have seen the look on her face. Gus is our 8-year old neighbor whom my daughter has a little spark in her heart for. I laugh thinking about my first crush. Oh to be five-years old once again. Then my daughter tells me, "John John told Gus he loves him too." He looked a bit embarrassed. So I told him, "It's okay sweetie. We should love everyone. We are all brothers and sisters on the planet," I told him as I rubbed the top of his head with my palm.
We went inside, had dinner, and then we got out homework. As I went through his backpack I saw a book he made. They were suppose to title their books. It had a picture of the earth they had cut out and beneath the picture of the earth they had colored he wrote for his title: Muthr Eirthe (translation: Mother Earth) Bless his heart. He was so excited about the title of his book. He and his brother asked me about things that are on Earth besides plants and trees. I had to really think about that, then I told them dirt, rocks, stones, animals. We then went to the puter where I showed them the Earth video from Michael Jackson. Oh did they have questions. "Why is that elephant dead?" So I had to tell them that people take their tusks and sell them. "Mommy why is that man crying?" I explained that there was a war and the little girl was killed in the war. Was a very serious discussion. Then I explained to them what bio-degradable means. What compost is. We talked about oil spills and what happens. Questions and observations were just flowing out of their little mouths and minds. It was quite the learning experience for all of us.
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