Saturday, April 12, 2008

Three Pack of Goggles

Akins has been swimming for a while now and recently discovered goggles at the pool. We went today to get him "his own pair" and came across a three pack. Here was his big sales pitch for getting these instead of one pair.

Akins: "I want the ones with the frog".
Lorea: "What about the other ones".
Akins: "One for Kuker and one for Gormah, I will share with them when they come to my house".

He immediately assigned the colors to each of them. Kuker orange and Gormah purple. These are now tucked safely in "his drawer, in his bathroom" for safe keeping until they arrive.

How could we resist. So - here is the video outlining which ones are which and displaying this lovely fashion statement which is especially attractive with the mohawk.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Similarities

I have meant to post this for a while to post this conversation because it was so sweet but I keep forgetting to get it on and at one point I actually thought I had already done it. Anyway, here it goes...

Akins: "Mommy, I'm black"?
Mommy: "Yes? What color is Lorea"?
Akins: Ponders for a moment studying her..."yellow".
Mommy: "Okay, what color am I"?
Akins: Ponders again studying me this time. "pink/yellow".

This is all very funny as Lorea's father is Hispanic and her mother is White so yellow is a pretty fair assessment. I am kind of fair skinned, but tan well so again pretty good. I'm not really sure what he is doing with all of this or what has sparked the conversation so I continue.

Mommy: "Let me show you something. Turn your hand over". I put our palms next to each other "see the same, let me see you feet". Again, I line the bottoms of our feet up. "See, we are all pink on the inside". This invoked a smile from him and no more questions since.