Saturday, March 22, 2008

The Big Moon and Growing Up

On the way to work Friday the moon was just huge and getting ready to set, so it was very close to the ground and directly in front of us. Maybe the biggest I have ever seen in my lifetime and an incredible yellow/orange. Here is the conversation - it was Lorea, Akins and me in the car not sure who said the prompts using Mommy for all of them.

Mommy: "Akins you see the moon it's huge"!
Akins: "I see it".
Mommy: "It's sitting on the ground".
Akins: "Why he sitting on the ground"?
Mommy: "Maybe he's tired from being up all night". Oh, here it comes it's standing back up".
Akins: "It no have legs".
Mommy: "No"?
Akins: "I don't see them".
Mommy: "See his face? They call him the man in the moon".
Akins: "Oh, yeah I see it".
Mommy: "Why it's so big"?
Akins: "Why"? Because, he has a baby in his gutty".

Growing up -

Mommy: "What do you want to be when you grow up"?
Akins: "A daddy".
Mommy: "Okay, after you go to college and get a good job that pays lots of money you can be a daddy. What do you want to do for work".
Akins: "I will have want (one) bo'(boy) and want gur' (girl)and I will carry (take) them to school when I go to work and I will carry them to the house". (This is a big deal directed at making a point with me because he wants me to both take him and pick him up from school everyday. Currently, I drop him and Lorea picks him up).
Mommy: "Oh, one boy and one girl"?
Akins: "Yep".
Mommy: "Do you want the boy or the girl first"
Akins: "First I will have a boy, then I will have a girl"
Mommy: "What will you name them".
Akins" Stammer, stutter, thinking - "The boy I will call Super and the girl I will call Tam".

Still never got the work thing out of him!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Grandma's knee surgery

Today Grandma is in surgery - so I am posting while waiting for the procedure to conclude. Yesterday, Akins said "what are they going to do"? I said "well, they are going to cut her knee open take out the old knee chunk it in the trash (his term) and then put a new one in and sew it back up". He says "I want to see it". "Uh - I don't think so".

Okay, another funny story.

I was trying to explain what Easter is really about - not the whole Easter bunny thing with candy and all but Christ rising from the dead and all that stuff. So, I tell him many people believe that Jesus was the son of God. He says "Where is he? I want to see him"? Yeah bud so do a whole bunch of other people!

So then I try to explain Heaven and that this is the place people who believe in Jesus go when they die and that it is good there, everyone is always happy and the weather is good and that it is beautiful. "Mommy, I want to die". Okay, enough of those conversations for a couple of years!