From The Jewel Box # 8

2/28/05- While Becky was at the gym, our son was looking out of the window and saw water in the parking lot. He pointed outside and said that the cars went potty. This was is cute because he has been observing that our daughter is potty trained and that he is learning. Since he saw a puddle of water on the ground by a car, his natural conclusion is that the car had an accident.


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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph. Come on parents! Feel free to share special jewels from your precious children. Just know that on this blog, our kids are the cutest!

From The Jewel Box # 7

12/22/05- Becky was talking to our daughter about celebrating Jesus’ birthday on Christmas. Our daughter asked, “Mommy, are we going to make a cake for Jesus? When Becky confirmed that we would, she asked, “But Mommy, who is going to blow out the candles?”

This one is funny also because it takes into consideration how literal children are. Our daughter knows that Jesus is not physically with us so she asked an obvious question that most adults wouldn’t even think about. We had the cake, the candles, so who is going to blow them out?

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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph. Come on parents! Feel free to share special jewels from your precious children. Just know that on this blog, our kids are the cutest!

From The Jewel Box # 6

Time for another Jewel.

6/28/05- Becky opened our son's door at the end of his “room time” to find him sitting in his empty laundry basket. He looked up and said, “The princess will find me floating down the river.”

He was thinking about the Biblical story of Moses being placed in a basket in the Nile River to be found by Pharaoh’s daughter. I thought this one was cute because our son was thinking about the stories we have read him and he is imagining himself as the main character. We, as Christian parents, are also happy that our kids are taking what we teach them seriously.


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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph. Come on parents! Feel free to share special jewels from your precious children. Just know that on this blog, our kids are the cutest!

From The Jewel Box # 5

Last year when our daughter had just turned four (our son was two) the two of them had this little exchange at lunch time. Our son was calling our daughter to come to the table.

Son- Come to the table, come!
Daughter- Don’t tell me what to do!
Son-
What to do!

It may not seem funny just reading it, but picture two little kids trying to establish authority over one another. Our daughter, the older of the two, doesn’t like to be told what to do, especially if it is by her little brother. Our son, on the other hand, rebelliously challenges his older sister and takes her dictate extremely literal.

I thought this was funny because our son completely missed our daughter’s point. She didn’t like being told what to do, but he interpreted her saying not to repeat those exact words. Of course he wasn’t going to grant her wish and, “told her what to do!”


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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.

From The Jewel Box # 4

When our daughter was two and a half years old, she had a couple of words that she use to mispronounce. Mosquito bites were Spa-gee-tos bites and Oat meal was called Open meal.


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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.

From The Jewel Box # 3

Today at the breakfast table my four year old daughter said, "Daddy, do you want to hear the new words I learned how to sound out?" We have a marker board near the table and the kids are allowed to write, draw, or color on the board. Becky wrote down a couple of new words for our daughter so now she was proud to show me what she learned. "Sure, let's hear them," I replied.

She looked at the first new word and said, "But." She then moved on to the second word and said "Top."

Evidently she didn't say them clearly enough because our 3 1/2 year old son started to copy what he thought the two new words were. He started bouncing in his seat as he rapidly repeated, "But-talk, but-talk, but-talk!"

If you don't get it, repeat those two words out loud really, really fast. Those kids crack me up.

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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.

From The Jewel Box # 2

Our family was recently at a lake where we were just sitting in the water and playing with the kids. We were about to leave so I told our son to put his flip-flops back on and he looked at me and said, "No comprendo." He is three and a half.

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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.

From the Jewel Box # 1

This post is the first of a new series called From the Jewel Box. This will be a regular feature where we will share with you some of the cute things that our kids say. Parents, you know your kids say some pretty funny things from time to time. Becky and I realized this as soon as our kids started to speak. We found ourselves forgetting some of these sayings and decided to keep tract of them, but we had no idea what to do or how to do it until Becky received a gift from the President of Moldova Bible Seminary.

Becky was given a beautiful hand-carved jewelry box for letting me go and teach at the seminary for five of the last six years (I teach a two week class on World Religions and Cults). We were very thankful for the gift, but really didn't know what to place in the box because Becky really isn't into jewelry. (Praise God she hates chick-flicks too!) Sure, she's got earrings, necklaces, and things like that, but nothing worthy of placing into such a nice box. Then it hit me- How about writing down the cute sayings of our kids and keeping them in the jewel box? Since we treasure these sayings like some people do jewelry, it only made sense to place these little gems into the jewel box. Excellent idea if I say so myself!

We keep the jewel box on a kitchen counter and write down the sayings as we remember. A great portion of these sayings come from conversation at the dinner table. Some of them are cute, some are silly, and others are just plain unbelievable. We'll start with one of the unbelievable ones.

FTJB #1

This one was probably one of the first quotes we recorded. Our daughter was 2 ½ years old and was eating a tortilla chip. She picked up a chip, held it up and said, “Triangle.” Becky and I were completely surprised. We had been teaching her about shapes and we were happy that she is learning to identify her shapes on her own completely uninitiated by us. What happened next blew our minds.

Our daughter took a bite out of the triangular chip. She bit the top off, held it up and looked at it again. She said, “Trapezoid.” Okay, now Becky and I are officially freaked. This example isn’t funny or cute, but is totally off the charts on the WOW factor. We knew our daughter was pretty smart, but we were not expecting this. By the way, Daddy was silently saying to himself, "So that is what a trapezoid looks like."

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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children's names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the "From the Jewel Box" link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph.