learning about turn tables and cigarettes

I just found an art project online and asked Lily if she had some of the supplies in her art closet. She said that she did, but that she's watching PBS and she'd get it when the show was over. "It's really good to watch, Mom. You don't even know you're learning! The kids are learning and they don't even know it!"

Today while waiting in the car for Lily to come out of the school, Drew was out of his seat belt dancing to the song on the radio. It was Little Drummer Boy and Drew was rocking out. He was dancing like he'd lost control of his body. He was moving in quick, jerky movements all over the car. I couldn't hold in a chuckle. All the dancing reminded him of something he'd seen on a show he'd watch (the very one that Lily was referring to when saying 'they don't even know they are learning!'). He started doing a motion with his hands and saying that he'd always wanted one of those things that spins those things. I finally figured out that Drew has always wanted a turn table of his very own. ha

Today Julianna was telling me about her weekend. She said that she'd gone to Mimi's house to spend the night. Then she told me that they had gone out to look at Christmas lights in Uncle Michael's "biiiiiig bus"...which was actually a van that my mom had rented from a local car dealership. Julianna went on to tell me that Uncle Austin had also been at Mimi's house, but not Aunt Amy. When I asked her where Aunt Amy was, she said, "I think at her house. She stayed home with the chickens."

Last week I did a post about Shanna's conversations with Drew. That very day, he said the funniest thing yet. Shanna tells it best, so I'm just going to share the whole text with you. "Prepare yourself for greatness! We were getting out of the car and I told him if he blows it turns to smoke when it's so cold. He says, yeah, it looks like when you're smoking a stick thing. But only men smoke sticks. And only dirty working men. My dad sometimes gets really dirty when he works but he doesn't smoke sticks." I am still laughing when I think about this.

Speaking of smoking sticks. On the way home from school today Lily saw her friend and her friend's mother walking home from school. She was horrified to see that her friend's mother was smoking. "I didn't know H's mom smoked! She is smoking a cigarette!" I tried to make it not such a big deal to her. I wouldn't want her commenting on the smoking habit to her friend tomorrow. I tried to relate to the friend and shared that my grandma was a smoker and that there many people who smoke. Lily said, "Oh, well. I don't think H's mom smokes all the time. Only when it's cold outside. She probably gets hot smoking in the summer. She smokes in the cold to keep herself warm." Such innocence.