I love you more than...

When I thought about being a parent I was always excited and thinking about molding a new person and teaching them about God, life, love, etc. There would be time spent eating, doing homework, sports, etc. But I don't think I really thought about how much darn fun it would be!!!

David and I have a little "game" we play where the first one says I love you and then the next says I love you more than ______. We run the gamut from more than this bridge is tall, more than that airplane flies high, more than space, more than Saturn, etc. You get the picture - it goes on for about five minutes. Well this morning on the way to school we were in the game and it was his turn to say and he said "I love you more than my car!" (my assumption is he means the car I'm driving) and then before I could say my turn he starts cracking up and says, "But I don't have a car!"

I don't know if we are like most almost-5-year-old boys, but cleaning up is not done well here. I have to threaten and sometimes spank, etc. Sweet Emily cleans/organizes/sorts his toys for me every 2 weeks and that is the only way we stay on top of them. Well last night before bath/bed routine I was making David put up the few trains he had out and to put them "where they go", because his room was in great shape from Emily's hard work the day before. So after a little sternness on my part he takes his trains and heads to his room. Right behind that I discovered a shoe and I was headed in his room myself. He meets me in the hallway and wants to know what I'm doing. I tell him and he says you can't go in my room. And I said why and then it occurred to me - what did you do with those trains? Did you put them in the train drawer? Mom - you can't go in my room. So I walk on and turn on his light and there are the trains - evidently tossed on the floor right inside his doorway. I say my little spiel and he starts picking them up. As he is doing this he says, "I don't know what happened. I thought they were magic trains and when I throw them in my room in the dark the rainbow would slide them into the train drawer." OK - well I guess there are points in there somewhere for imagination, LOL.

Last week each child in David's class was asked to make a vegetable visitor (V week) and take it to school on Friday. We had such fun!! David and I went to Publix together and spent over 1/2 an hour in the produce section and then came home and created together. What started as a dog or a race car kind of turned into the squash truck aviator with daddy and two kids on the back, LOL.