A, L, and M Digest

Andrew-Perils of Reading

We were going through the check-out line last week after our weekly grocery shopping trip. I try to squeeze it in while Lily is at school so I only have to bring the boys.

As I put the groceries up on the conveyor-thingy, Andrew looks at the candy, magazines, and other sundries that are supposed to tempt you last minute. And we have this conversation:

Andrew- "Mom! Oh no! Dr. Phil has only months to live!"
G- "Well, maybe...but probably he's okay."
A- "But it says so right here on this magazine."
G- "Well...you can't believe everything you read...especially on these types of magazines. Sometimes they make stuff up."
A- "How can they do that? Why are they allowed to say someone is going to die?"
G- "????????"

I contemplated getting into a discussion about 1st amendment rights and how you can do just about anything to get someone to buy your product and how sometimes publishers think that making a buck is more important than how it makes someone feel...

But I just shrugged and kept putting things on the conveyor belt. It's just one of the perils of reading.

Lillian- God loves me

Lily came home from school last week and we had this conversation-

Lily- "We had candy at school today."
G- "Really?"
L- "We got it from a basket"
G- "Why did you get candy today?"
L- "Because God loves me."

It doesn't sound that cute...but the way she said the last bit was so flippant and cute.

Michael- Gravity is a tricky thing

Michael has practiced and practiced testing gravity. He is quite the scientist. Everything he can get his hands on, he throws...and it always bangs to the ground. Always. Until Sunday night when he got a balloon from Red Robin. Once home, Lily promptly tore the string off, so it was able to float all the way to the ceiling and out of Michael's eyeline.

Jeff retrieved it for him, and Michael was thrilled! He promptly did what he always does...threw it down...and then went to chase it like a ball. But! It had disappeared! He was spinning around looking down for it with this look of incredulous surprise. We were laughing until we cried. And then, of course, we retrieved it again and he did the exact same thing. Even when we pointed out that it had gone up...his little brain just couldn't accept it. Funny!