oh dear me

tonight i got the this is what happened today report over dinner. it was a good report. better than the one i gave to my boss this morning. which is also part of the reason i stayed late and, therefore, was getting briefed over dinner.

sarah was reading a story to the kids on the sofa. briana was sitting off to the side leaning over and straining to see the book. this is pretty odd, because she is normally all but sitting on the book during story time.

so sarah says, "b, don't you want to sit on my lap?"

b responds with, "even if i'm wet?"

sarah's quick wit gives us, "why didn't you go to the bathroom?"

to which b honestly responds, "i was busy."

on to the next one...

sarah started teaching the kids how to write today. we want to make sure that they can read and write english. of course, based on kindergarten here, they might not learn to read and german until they are dead or so. anyway, sarah has a book, and one of the alphabet activities is to look at the pictures on a page and color the ones that start with whatever letter is on the page. believe it or not, page one has an A on it. the pictures: astronaut, ant, alligator, and a bed. aiden came up with this yesterday when they were talking about starting lessons today: ant, bed, crocodile, and alien (i hooted and hollered and told him he deserved money for that one, since it was really close, and without being able to see through the faceplate and/or perform some experiments, how do you know once they come back?). we went into a little discussion about how the alligator looked like a crocodile but it was an alligator. i'm not sure he bought into it. so, today they started with the coloring (i think back to kyvery's kindergarten torture when i hear this). aiden would apparently rather cut off his leg as color. i hate to hear that, because he has a lot more coming at him. so he gets going on the astronaut. he got through that and surveyed what was left. he turned to sarah and asked if he could just call the alligator a crocodile and be done with it.

she compromised and let him just X it off. i would have given him a cookie.