Oct 02 2007
Neverending Amazement
In the past few weeks, my kids have atonished me and made me laugh..
First, I’ll start with Lizzy. Last night at dinner, she asked what was heaven. Colleen tried to explain it as well as she could, mentioning that when we die, we go to heaven..
This is when things got confusing for Elisabeth, and hysterical to me.. 
She asked if our bodies go to heaven. Colleen replied that our bodies our buried.
Lizzy – “So, our bodies are buried, and our heads go to heaven?” (I’m now laughing out loud, while Colleen shoots a look at me to be quiet).
Colleen – “No, our bodies and head our buried. Our spirit goes to heaven.”
Anyhow, after some explanation, Lizzy now understands.. Meanwhile, I’m having these images of heads floating up to heaven..
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On to Megan now.. Her vacabulary is expanding so fast everyday.. This morning, I go to sit on the couch that she’s on, when she says, “Daddy, I behind you!”. I look at her astonished, wondering when she learned the concept of being behind someone.
She also is having problem pronouncing words, like any other two year old, she doesn’t know what she’s saying. She will try to tell us “I need a fork!”, but it comes out as….well.. I’m sure you can imagine what it sounds like. The other word is “clock”. I remember Lizzy at the age of two saying “cock” instead of “clock”. My father-in-law thought this was funny, and would show Lizzy their grandfather clock in the living room, and trying to get her to say “Grandpa’s big clock”. Thanksgiving this weekend should be entertaining in Penticton this weekend.
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Now for Ainsley.. She’s 10 months old, and as of 3 days ago, has learned to crawl. She’s said her first word. Now, you’d expect her first word to be mama or papa, but nope…that’s not it….
She’ll be on the floor, point at something and said, “Look!”. Well… it comes out more as a “g-ook”, only because she can’t pronounce the L sound yet.. But it’s clear what she’s saying.
I tell you… my kids never cease to amaze/surprise me..
The first time we took Conner camping he made friends with another kid at the campsite next to us. The people were from Germany and spoke english well themselves, but their child didn’t speak or understand any.
That was probably a good thing.
Conner was running around the campsite with a large stick and had it in his head that he was going to “hunt snakes” with it.
He ran to his new found friend and blurted out “hey lets go hit nakes, look, I have a big dick!”.
Yes, the letter “S” was still a challenge at that age.