Who says they can't understand what's going on in church?

Whispered to me in church after our pastor finished reading the account of Christ's birth in Luke chapter 2:

Jonah:  Mommy?  Did you see an angel when you got pregnant?

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Jonah's first original composition...

And how it made her feel...

Such wisdom.

"Peter Pan and Wendy Float Away Over the City" - find it here

Mary-Beth (my Kindergartener):  Jonah?  What do you do in 1st grade that you don't do in Kindergarten?

Jonah (my 1st grader):  Pretty much the same thing, except that you live your life more.

I have no idea what that means.  It amuses me, though, because they're both sitting at the same table during school time.

Almost Wordless Wednesday

A note from Ashley, quickly and quietly scratched into the frost on a thawing bag of last year's pumpkin.  Life just doesn't get much better.

Naturally.

Last night during dinner...


Jonah: "Dad? Can we play catch after dinner?"


Dan:  "No son, I'm gonna try and fix that water pump."


Jonah:  "Without electrocuting yourself?"


Dan:  "That's the goal."

While sitting around the back yard fire pit last night

Me: Mary-Beth, good job going behind Daddy instead of walking in front of him, close to the fire.

(pause....)

Mary-Beth: Sometimes I burp into my napkin.

Uhhhhhhm... mkay.

Oh. My mistake.

Ashley's friend Ashley Mask is here helping Ashley clean her closet.

Heard from the other room: "That was easy. That was easy. That was easy. That was easy. That was easy. That was easy. That was easy."

Me: "Awwwwww, Jonah! Ashley gave you her easy button. How nice!"

Jonah: "No, actually it was Ashley."

"Mom!!! Eventually, King Neverkizzever believed in the true God!!!" --- Jonah, talking about the Bible history regarding "Rack, Shack & Benny" (a.k.a. Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and King Nebuchadnezzar).

In which the boy expounds on the benefits of bunnies.

Jonah: We should get a rabbit because a rabbit is like a mower except it's smaller. And? When the rabbit dies?  (finger gun) You can just use your mower again.

(It all boils down to the lawn mower for my little man.)

But you said every good game for boys has hot lava...

Me: "Jonah, Aunt Nancy asks about your baseball game yesterday. She wants to know if there was any hot lava."

Jonah (with a grin): "We're the Fireballs, not the Hot Lava Balls."

On the way to pick up Mom for her labs and radiation appointment this morning:

Jonah: We're taking Grandma to the doctor again?

Mary-Beth: Wow. She's always sick.

Jonah: No she's not, Mary-Beth. She's not always sick.

Mary-Beth: Yes she is.

Jonah: No she's not.
Mary-Beth: Yes she is.
Jonah: No she's not!
Mary-Beth: (giggle) Yes she is.
Jonah: No she's not infinity!

Mary-Beth: Oh yeah? Then why do we always take her to the doctor? (tongue out at Jonah)

Me: We take Grandma to the doctor for a special medicine she has to use every day. She has something called cancer. Mary-Beth is right, Jonah. Grandma is sick.

Mary-Beth: Oh. (pause) So does she cough a lot? Or sneeze a lot.

That must be it.

Ashley this morning: "Hey Mom, the neighbor lady across the street, her arm's in a sling. What happened?"

Me: "Oh wow, I don't know. Surgery? Or maybe it's broken. I wonder what happened."

Jonah: "Maybe she fell off her roller skates. Then (insert crashing sound)... y'know... broken."

My hero!

Mary-Beth bounded into my bedroom this afternoon sporting Jonah's red superhero cape. Standing there, chin up, hands on hips, she says to me in her best superhero voice, "Mom? Can I go outside and save! the world!?" I kissed her on both cheeks and said, "Yes, you may. Please go and save the world in the back yard." She replied, shoulders now slumped, "But there aren't any people in that world."

Um, ew?

Mary-Beth: Um, Jonah? Your breath smells like trees.

Some questions don't need to be answered.

Jonah: "Hey Dad! Do you have anything big and sharp I can have?"

You learn something new every day.

Jonah: Hey Mom! Guess what! When your body grows? It even grows all at the same time. Not only half of it grows, but ALL of it grows. Even. your boobs.

Me: *ahem* Boobs?

Mary-Beth: He means "boobies." (With a knowing glance at Jonah. You know the one. If you have teenage girls, you've seen it. "Oh that poor woman. Will she ever catch up?")

Me: *ahem* Boobies?

Jonah: (eyebrows up, nodding) Yeah. I learned that (finger gun) at sign language class.

Now where in the world did I put that syllabus from ASL class? It's around here somewhere...

Dear God, please don't let him find half a frog.

Jonah: "Mom? This pocket right here is sooo big, I bet I could fit a whole frog in there."

Maybe I should sew that one shut.

Wow. That's tall.

Jonah: "The trees at the cabin are almost as tall as God and Jesus stuck together."

Almost.

That long ago, eh?

Jonah: "WAIT! I have seen a rabbit before. It was at the pumpkin patch........ That was back when I had all my teeth."

I'm betting that won't be the last time he'll have to say that.

It's all about the lums, yo.

Mary-Beth: "When we cough or sneeze, really our lums are just squeezing the germs out. (nods, eyebrows up) They are."

I believe it, every word.