Friday, May 11, 2012

Travel Talk

Driving to Idaho, Landon and Kate were getting restless toward the end of the trip. To help distract them, I tried to find interesting things for them to look at out the window. We were passing by a mountain of lava rock. So, as positive as I could, I directed their attention out the window.

"Look at those rocks out your window."

They responded with a semi-excited "wow"(Katelyn more so than Landon).

A moment later Landon turned to Katelyn and in a sarcastic, imitating sounding voice he said, "Katelyn, look. There's a tree," then he burst out laughing.

His subtle, adult-like sense of humor makes me laugh.

On the same trip. . .

Landon anxiously said, "mom!"

"What?"

"Mom, look at my leg!"

"I am driving, sweetheart, tell me what you need?"

"The hairs on my leg are getting bigger! Katelyn, look! My leg hairs are getting bigger! . . . Wow!"

On the same trip. . .

Landon needed to use the bathroom while we were at a store. I opened the door to a single bathroom and started to usher him in when he backed up, objecting to go in. I asked him what was wrong and he stated that that toilet was too loud. I looked at it and saw that it was an automatic-flush toilet.
There was no other option.
"Landon, this is the only toilet."
"Mom, will you come in with me and plug my ears while I go to the bathroom?"

Oh, this is a good image. A little boy standing at the toilet while his mom is standing behind him covering his ears. Needless to say, it was better than changing wet pants.

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