Everyday as Tuck comes home from school, we settle in for lunch, look in his back pack, review worksheets, and talk about the day, what letters he talked about at school, just wherever the conversation takes us.
Here is where the conversation led us today.
T: “Mom, there is a girl in my class, and everytime her tummy hurts, she has to go the hospital for 17 years.”
M: “17 Years? Wow, I didn’t know that!”
T: “Yeah, and not one of those little years, one of those BIG years.” (using his expressive reaching hands)
M: “Wow…”
later…
M: “Tucker it looks like you talked about Presidents today at school, I see a picture of…”(holding up a picture of Abe Lincoln)
T: “Yeah, he’s a a harry man who lived in a cabin”
later…
M: “Oh, look at this cool picture, did you make this?” (Holding up this picture)
T: “Yeah, it’s the cabin where that harry man lived.”
M: “You mean Abraham Lincoln?”
T: “Yeah”
M: “What’s this in the window?”
T: Chewing on lunch, talking with his mouthful, “It’s wives”
M: “Wives?” (there are a few windows…)
T: chewing… “No mom, Y’s, we talked about that letter remember?”
M: “Oh, yeah, right…”
Apparently, someone has been studying her Mormon ancestors a little too much! 🙂