MrsA

MrsA to L2 (7yrs): Why did you whack your brother with your stuffed animal?

L2: Because I was thinking. And sometimes when I’m thinking, my brain sets aside kindness so it has room for more thoughts.

From the 8yr old…
… And then Absalom was riding along and got his hair got in a tree and then along came Joab and shot him!

We’ve been reading through Bible quiz questions at supper time as a family. This one was a fill in the blank…

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own ______?

Me trying to get the younger boys to think about what the answer might be: If you had everything in the world, but there was one thing that you didn’t have and it made everything else worthless… what might that item be?

L3 (7yrs): Doggy?

L3: Canyons and mountains are both the same except canyons go deeper and mountains go higher.

We got a snow storm on the 8th of September this year.

L1 (8yrs): It’s unexpectable!

L3: Mom, every now and then, I get hurt.

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L1 (on swimming at Mitchell Lake): Maybe I can use a tree branch for a poodle! (Explanation: pool noodle)

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While playing cars at the campsite…

L3 (very upset and yelling at his brother): No no no no no! Ahhhhhh! Don’t touch my Eagle Lake copter!

L1 (exasperated): L3, your amygdala is going off.

Overheard from L2 (6.5 yrs): You know how much fun swimming is? How much fun we had at Pastor Phil’s pool?

L3: Yeah. That’s was lots of fun!

L2: Well, reading is that much fun. Except even better.

L2 (6.5yrs): If you love a bagel, you’ll love a doughnut even more. That’s what I say. Because bagels are plain doughnuts.

I heard L3 (4 yrs) screaming in the DR in the morning. I came down to find him bucked into his booster seat (unusual) and very upset.

L1 (8yrs): Don’t worry, he just didn’t want to sit in his seat, so I put him in it and buckled him in and now he’s upset, so I brought him the “how big is your problem” calm down card. I told him he has a small problem and a big response.

L1 to L3: Now. You need a calm down tool to help you calm down. Pulls out calm down flip ring. Do you want to do an animal walk? Or draw a picture?

MrsA walked into the house this evening and L3 (4yrs) ran up to meet her with a pair of kids’ scissors.

L3: Mom, you can cut your hair with these! Proceeds to trim front hair

MrsA matter-of-factly: I was wondering when this would happen.

Summary, from L1: I started cutting their hair, but then I realized that we probably shouldn’t, so then I tried to stop it.

Apparently L1 was cutting L3’s hair and then L3 was cutting L2’s hair and his own hair too.