Thinking
The other day David (5ys) said: “Mom, there’s something wrong with me.”
Me: “What’s wrong?”
David: “I can’t stop thinking. I think all day long and all night long and I’m tired of it. I’m bored of thinking.”
Me: “That’s pretty much the nature of being a person. You’re always going to be thinking.”
David: “But I’ve only thought of 2 things since the day that I was born.”
Now I was really interested. “What are those 2 things?”
David: “One thing I can’t stop thinking about is how ziggy-zaggy stairs are made. How are they constructed? The other thing is about circle stairways. Why do people make them? They just go around and around instead of straight up and you use so many more stairs for that. I saw a staircase when I was born and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since then.”
Maybe we have a budding engineer?
A few minutes later David asked me: “Since Antarctica is at the bottom of the world is 1/2 of it day and 1/2 of it night at the same time?” There’s my proof that his thoughts are not completely consumed with thoughts of logical staircase construction.
Rebekah (3 yrs) recently wore a kimono to church. When we were walking out, she said: “Mommy, everyone was staring at me. I was so gorgeous, people were falling down!” That’s the 3-year-old interpretation of drop dead gorgeous!
Lenora (17 mos) has discovered the utility of chairs. She moves them all over the house to reach things that until now have been unreachable. I’ve also discovered that her tantrums stop quickly and completely when I offer her a book. She’s a woman after my own heart!
May 3rd, 2007 07:04
What fun children you have, Kirsti! I imagine you have few moments to yourself at your house–unless maybe you can somehow get them simutaneously building Lego staircases (David), playing dress-up (Rebakah) and looking at books (Leonora)?
Isn’t it wonderful to see how imaginative children can be? And how differently they interpret their experiences depending on their personalities? And how fresh and amazing their thinking processes can be?
Thanks for sharing these special moments from your family life with us in this column. They always give me a smile, but also provoke thoughts about the importance of my example to the children around me, and the opportunities I have to help them learn about the world from a Gospel perspective.
May 3rd, 2007 11:43
These are great fun! Thank you for sharing!