i love eavesdropping on my kids. the conversations they have when they don't think adults (or, according to susanna, "anadults" -- she is convinced that the article and the noun together form the word) are listening can be riveting. most are silly, and some are profound. and then some just make me inwardly groan and wonder just what in the ham sandwich my older is teaching my younger.
take today's conversation. they were both at the kitchen table, liam laboring over his math homework and susanna creating yet another art masterpiece. i paused in the doorway, unseen, curious as to what they were discussing. susanna was mulling over her options for what to bring for show-and-tell when she suddenly exclaimed, "oh no! i made a mistake!"
liam was so focused on his subtraction problems that he didn't even look up. "that's okay," he replied. "that's why God created the eraser."
"but i'm using marker! did God create something to erase marker?"
an inquiry such as this caught his attention. "um, i don't know. i guess we could google it." he paused, and i assumed he was probably pondering if a marker eraser was even possible. but then he followed it up with this reassuring gem: "but you know that everyone makes mistakes. so it's okay. even i make mistakes."
now susanna looked up, surprised. "really?" *
"yep. i made a mistake one time in 2009. you remember? it was that day we went to target."
i couldn't make this stuff up if i tried.
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*note: i believe everyone should have the privilege of having an adoring younger sister. mine still worships the ground i walk on, even after all these years. (right, leslie?)
2 comments:
I just laughed so hard that our cat fell off the couch and landed on the dog!
I would have loved to have known what the mistake was at target in 2009! hilarious!
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