Some Fun Kid Stories ...

Here are a few fun kid stories from the past couple of weeks ...

Story #1

Ethan and Parker were waiting by the front door one morning waiting to be picked up for pre-school. The following exchange took place between them:

Parker: "Are you wearing your race car shoes like me?"
Ethan: "Yes."

Parker: "Are you wearing you're yellow shirt too?"
Ethan: "Yes!"

Parker: "No one will be able to tell us apart!"
Ethan: "That's right ... but we will know!"


Story #2

Robin was showing the kids pictures from the latest ultrasound and explaining about the new baby boy growing in her belly. She was pointing out in the pictures where the kids could see the arms, the head, and the kids were really eager to see the new baby. Robin came to the part of the picture that tells us that the new baby is a boy.

Robin says "this is the baby's boy part, this is how we know the baby is a boy." Parker got really excited and, pointing to that part, said "He's got a belly button, just like me."

Robin replies, "No, that's not his belly button, that's his ... 'bummy'" (we really haven't discussed the proper vocabulary for male anatomy with the boys yet). Parker got this scandalized look on his face and Ethan pipes up, "You mean the baby's naked?!?"

Story #3 [the continuing saga of Rachel's terrible fears of dinosaurs]

The fallout continues from letting Rachel see Jurassic Park 3 about a month ago. At various times, she has informed us that she wants to move from this house because it has dinosaurs in it, and she wants to get a new t.v. that doesn't have dinosaurs in it.

The other day Robin was telling Rachel how glad she is that Rachel came to our family. Rachel responded by saying that she's glad to be in our family and that if she had come down to another mommy and she say Robin on the street then she (Rachel) would want to be with Robin. Then she thought for a moment and, apparently having a change of heart, said that if she had come down to another family then she would not have seen the dinosaur movie. :(

But then Robin, wanting to help Rachel achieve a little perspective on the situation, said to Rachel, "you know what, some day you will not be scared of dinosaurs." Rachel seemed to take courage at that thought and voluntarily decided to sleep in her room last night. She has been sleeping in the boys room across from our room most nights. And on those nights that we do convince her to sleep in her room, it has to be with the light on and with the understanding that when she gets up in the middle of the night she can come upstairs and sleep in the boys room.

So things appear to be improving on that front.