Plus

Andrew (now 8) "I did a toot plus...but it wasn't really a toot...so I guess it was just a plus."

Inside my kids' heads

IN the matter of 5 minutes today, Zachary shared the following thoughts with a friend who oicked him up from school:

1. "If you don't give me a snack today during rest time you'll be arrested."

2. "You have to be careful when you hold a rat because it's tail will wrap around your heart and suffocate you."

3. "I saw a train with people on it the other day. I saw a man pooping because there were no curtains."

None of these statements are even remotely true.

On my way home with Andrew I asked him what he was thinking about.

"A Patriot squishing a dolphin" (the Pats played the Dolphins last week and we kept saying "sqsuish the fish). But then he said:
"and before that I was thining about a whale eating a dolphin...wearing a helmet."

Forgiving our Parents

http://www.aholyexperience.com/2011/08/figuring-out-how-to-forgive-your-parents/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HolyExperience+%28Holy+Experience%29

Flamethrowers

So I was swinging in the hammock with Davis yesterday when out of nowhere he says, "Dad, maybe we could get a flamethrower?" In reply I said, "Maybe not, flamethrowers can be a bit dangerous." He didn't miss a beat, and replied, "So maybe when I'm 16?"

I think my kids read too much Calvin and Hobbes :) Still, one less gift idea I have to come up with.
Josh

Speed

Andrew: "Dad, I fell down on the floor in big room (the gym) the other day and smacked my ear real hard."
Me: "How did that happen?"
ANdrew: "I was running so fast I got lost in speed. You know, like lost in your thoughts, but I was lost in speed."

Marriage

Zachary: "When I turn 4 I am going to marry Lucy."
Andrew: "You know that means you have to kiss her."
Zachary: "Oh, I am going to kiss her."

Iron

Carrie has always struggled with low iron in her blood. The doctors cure...eat more red meat. When she starts to feel the weakness coming on she simply tells me to head out to the freezer and grab a steak. The other day Luke said, "I hope I have the same disease as mom when I grow up."