No Breathing...

Another nice snippet from my son Tom to my wife Angie. He was wanting these new shoes, "air raiders" or something (airators?). He was telling me yesterday that the shoes actually breathe.

So Angie went out and got him some today. He rarely asks for stuff, except for the occasional video game and, since our visit to David Drury's house a few weeks back, a Wii. He prayed to Santa to get him one at Christmas, but that's another story.

So today when he finally had the shoes on, he declared to Angie, "Look, Mom, I'm not breathing." Then apparently he stood there very quiet, like he was frozen.

Yep, that's my son--high on imagination and a little confused about how things actually work in the real world...

September 29, 2007

Unlike my wife Angie, I will forget the little fun things my children say if I don't write them down. I hate to think of how much I have forgotten already.

Today my son said something like, "I can't believe we live in North America" and went on to say that everyone in North America speaks American and that he didn't know that President Bush could take over all the states.

But the funniest thing today was when he asked me if I had ever known any gray people. Puzzled, I found out that he meant the people in black and white TV's, the way people used to be in the future. Now mind you, my son is eight and is very good at math and very much like me in some ways :-)

Another one I want to preserve for posterity comes from a conversation we had while he was taking a batha couple weeks ago. I won't go into the details, but the comment of choice was when he exclaimed, "You mean I'm going to have two?"

Children, that is...

Kudos to Tom

Different parents are no doubt proud of different things. Today I'm proud of my son Tom for something I'll admit I never thought of. He was making hopscotch blocks with some new sidewalk chalk we discovered. He was numbering the blocks.

My surprise was to find that he had put a 0 and a -1 at the beginning. Then he wanted me to take the blocks in the opposite direction to -20. I didn't think he would know anything about negative numbers in the second grade!

Kudos to my son!