Snippets of dinner conversation

Last night at dinner we had about fifteen minutes of both sweet and hilarious conversation- perhaps the interjection of the random in between the serious maybe it funnier.  Here are the highlights of how it went down (the letter before indicates who is talking, if that wasn't obvious).

C “Austin, you heard that Bree is moving?  And we might have to move, but we don’t know for sure”

A “yeah, I know Bree told me we were moving too but maybe she didn’t know.  But why does her (our landlady’s) mom want to move there and not here?  Why does she want all those toys?”

L “well, those are bree and Jesh’s toys, if they move they will take them with them.”

A “Oh. if we move can we take our wall stickers with us?”

L “Yes, of course”

A “ok.” (deep in thought)

L “Do you want to move austin?

A “Yes.  b/c Bree is moving”

L “Austin do you want some milk?

A “No, I’m not drinking milk for lent. Daddy's not drinking coffee but milk is my favorite”

L “really are you sure?  Do you understand why you give things up for lent?”

A “no”

Chris explains it reminds him to think of Jesus when he thinks about coffee and helps him feel closer to him.

L “DO you really want to give up milk?  You can, but you don’t have to”

A “But milk has protein.  Does juice have protein?

L “Well, no”

A “well, maybe I will do something else.  Like ice cream or treats”

L “Wow, that could be really hard, but really special”

A “well, I mean not EVERY day”

L “well, that is what people usually do during Lent, but you can decide”

A “well, I think I’ll just wait till I’m a man”

we are then interrupted by Bennett

B “Is ‘blah’ onomata-pita?”

L "Yes Bennett it is" 

B "Is bleh onomapee-a?"

L "Yes"

Austin “Mommy, why aren’t dragons real?”

Bennett "Do turtles have mirrors?

This was the progression of the conversation, I kid you not.  Life is never dull! 

I will end with some photos of the boys' recent artwork, which has been requested.  These boys can draw some pictures...I think they have drawn over 50 pictures in the past few days.  I cannot keep up with the paper, but they really love it and spend quite a bit of time doing it, especially Bennett of course.

By Austin ... our family on a train

Austin again...the solar system and a rocket flying though.  He has been learning the planet names at school...we had to teach him the English names b/c he didn't know them all but had learned the Chinese ones.  We had to guess at which ones were which.

The last by Austin- train tracks and trains and his Chinese name written at the bottom.

Bennett, obviously.  He has started to like numbers and this is I think a rocket at the bottom.  He likes to count backwards from ten to blastoff.  He writes many numbers backwards, but hey, he is only 3.  Sometimes I can't tell his pictures apart from Austin's, but the red sun with the six rays is a signature Bennett these days- if it has a sun with 6 rays (of any color) it's by Bennett. Notice he always writes the first "t" in his name lower case and the second one a capital letter.  Chris and I decided if he ever becomes a famous artist maybe that will be part of his signature.

By Bennett- not sure exactly what it is.

We learned about coal recently in our homeschool book and ever since Bennett learned how to write coal and writes it randomly on LOTS of pictures (that have nothing to do with coal).  I think it is the only word he can spell other than his name. He also randomly likes to write letters all over his art these days.

There had been a LONG absence of Bob and Larry drawings by Bennett, but last week they watched a video of it (it had been a long time) and this week...they showed up again.

Also not sure what this is, but I thought it was interesting.  Notice the face of the blue thingamjigger on the top left.  That face shows up a lot, as well as lady bugs lately by Bennett.

We recently got a new book called "Tommy's Art Lesson", an autobiographical story by Tomie dePaola.  He is so excited for his first real art lesson b/c he draws ALL the time and is disappointed to learn you only get one piece of paper at school- the perfect story for our little artist Bennett.