Saturday, March 7, 2009

Out of the mouths of babes

As we loaded into the car after school yesterday Benjamin (the boy we carpool with) said, "Hey, I like your shirt!" What a sweet way to start the afternoon.

We were having our usual, "How was your day?" discussion when Zach said, "I told Miss J. that she is the best teacher a student could ever ask for." Could he get more thoughtful and sincere?

And Luke... We stopped at the playground for a little while after school. It was packed with much older school kids. There was a family of three boys (ages 11, 9 and 7) who had brought a basketball. Luke spotted it and wanted to play with it. I told him he would have to ask the boys who brought it. So he trots up to the oldest boy, hops as he gets to him, holds his hands behind his back and says, "Can I pway wiff he baketball? Pweeze, pweeze, pweeze!" The 11 year old says, "I don't know, you will have to ask him" (pointing to the 7 year old standing a few feet away). So, Luke trots over to the 9 year old, hops, puts his hands behind his back and repeats, "Can I pway wiff he baketball? Pweeze, pweeze, pweeze!" The 9 year old smiles and tells him the exact same thing the 11 year old did. So, Luke trots over to the 7 year old, hops, puts his hands behind his back (and now a tad weary) says, "Can I pway wiff he baketball?" (no more pweeze, pweeze, pweeze). As the three boys' mom was repeating (in her head) "Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes!", her 7 year old said YES. It was just too sweet! I think every mom there was considering having another child after watching these four boys be so kind to one another...

The after school crew - Benjamin, Zachary, Lucas

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