Our Family Story by Luke

It is Spring Break for Luke this week. I'm not sure how much "break" I get but it IS nice having him home. He's such a great little helper and he is still so full of love. On Friday, his school had their spring concert. The kids sang a few songs and then each of them read their family's story - which they had written themselves. As my friend Lisa said, "That's got potential for embarrassment." LOL! I've scanned Luke's story and you can read (and see his own writing) for yourselves. We recorded it too but the sound quality is not very good.

Why am I surprised?

Sometimes, I ask myself why I am surprised when my children make me laugh. Here's the lovely picture Luke drew for me at church. I must let you know that he's in the "I-want-to-only-marry-my-mother" stage because "she's-the-best-and-most-beautiful-girl-I-know." Sigh. That's going to change soon, I'm sure. But for now, I'm enjoying the love coming from him.


Isn't it just a sweet picture? I mean, do you see the rolling hills in the background and my outstanding hair style (pretty realistic)? The sun is shining! Ahhhh, but there is more! Just turn it to the other side and this is what you get. "Bang" "Poof" "I love you"


Yes, I have the world's sweetest son. :)

Raising Them To Be Nerds

Can one "nerdify" one's child? Or is it fully the work of genetics when you see those tendencies arising from those little minds? From today's lunch conversation, I'm pretty sure environment plays a key factor it in all.

Luke and Abby were playing some kind of game. It involved one calling out an event (i.e. the first to chew the apple) and then declaring if the person to accomplish the said event was the winner or the loser. Which led to Luke and Abby using the word "losed" as in lost.

So, yes, we had a long, lengthy discussion about the word lost. Luke argued that it made more sense to be "losed" (and it does btw). But I informed him there was no such word and that led to the pulling out of the dictionary. Which led to the discussion of the numerous other verbs that are conjugated in odd ways (i.e. fly and flew, sleep and slept). Which led to the discussion of what a verb was. Which led to me quizzing him on random made-up sentences and having him pick out the "action word." Which led to the discussion of what nouns are...and so on and so on. I started on adjectives and adverbs but decided he could wait for that....

And I thought the discussion on magic and witches on the way to school was deep. One of these days, he's really and I do mean, really, going to stump me.

Let the nerdifying commence!