Waffle House

Luke's assessment: "That's the best food I've ever had!"

Big questions a'comin.....

Luke asked me last night about the tampons he saw in the bathroom. After a quick flash of heebie-geebies, I gave him a 6-year old level, pretty clinical description of the menstrual cycles and why women have them. He told me, "You don't need those anymore so you can throw them away." Rich and I assume he meant that I'm not having more babies, but it's open to interpretation.

Luke says....

Luke wanted me to get out of my comfy chair to go turn on the Wii for him. When I told him to go get a chair, stand on it, and turn it on himself, he said, "You're not working as a team, you know."

Character assassination

I just read Luke a dinosaur version of "The Emperor's New Clothes." At the end, I asked him what kind of people would behave like the emperor. He said, "Jerks."

Luke, TV Critic

I tried to have a nice, drug-induced evening on the couch following the root canal this afternoon (fine now, lots of throbbing).

While I'm watching ER, Luke says, "Mommy, I don't like this, but it attracts me. Turn it off."

Power, compost, and shoes

We have power!!!!!

Luke on making compost:

“To make pop tarts into soil you have to use a proper bin outside. It has to be outside because it would stink inside the house. You have to leave it and check on it every week. It turns into soil. Raisins, leaves, and other food turn into soil, but not mayonnaise ‘cause it would stink and attract animals. Rats and raccoons would get it. It takes about one week and then it’s plant food.”

Luke told Raha, “When I get agitated I call my mommy Mom and my daddy Dad.” Score one for an early language-rich environment.

Aaron is now rapidly picking up new words, and he's much more willing now to imitate words when asked to say them. Aaron's recent new words:

Toe
Shoes (choos!)
milk - he says this while simultaneously doing the sign for it

Dirty Rhymes

Meaghan goofed! She asked Luke what rhymes with truck and Luke came up with a good one.

Polite grammar goof

Luke has developed a sweet grammar habit. If he wants one of us to do something for him, he starts his requests with, "May you please....."

Death, revisited

We were driving home from gymnastics and Luke heard on NPR that Solzhenitsyn died at 89 and was buried today.

Luke: Do people live to be 99?
Me: People can live to be very old.
Luke: Like 1000?
Me: No, like 100, because our bodies aren't made to live to be 1000.
Luke: What about 104?
Me: Your Great Great Grandma lived to be 103.
Luke: When did she die?
Me: Almost 20 years ago.
Luke: Oh, I really liked her. What part of you goes to heaven, again?
Me: Your soul.
Luke: So her soul went at heaven. What happened to her body?
Me: We put it in a box called a coffin and buried it, then put a special stone above it to show that we loved her.
Luke: Does dirt get in the box?
Me: No, the box keeps it out.
Luke: Can we dig up the box?
Me: Why would we do that?
Luke: So I can see her so I can remember what she looked like.

It was SOOOOO hard not to laugh through this conversation!

More from Luke

On the train from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.: "My stomach has a tummy ache."

That trip was brutal. I think Aaron is getting his two year old molars, or else I'm just losing my mind. We're still recovering.

Potty habits

We had to leave the park tonight because Luke needed to use the restroom. On the way home in the car he said, "Maybe I don't need to use the potty. My butt put the poop away."

Death & Grammar

Luke describing the movie Batman: "Batman pushed the really bad guy out of the high window and he went to dead!!"

How to get to heaven

I had Luke and McKenna in the car on the way to swimming when they started talking about relatives who had died. McKenna told him that you go to heaven when you die. Luke asked if your body went to heaven, and I responded, "Just your soul." So McKenna asked, "Just your head not your body?" I tried to explain, but apparently was unsuccessful, because Luke said,"Oh, your SKIN goes but the rest of you stays here."