August 23, 2012

  • Mystery at the end

    The neighbor girls gave our kids a small bag of the Valentine hearts candies with little messages on them.  Grant kept asking me to read them to him.  On one it said, "Marry me?" and Grant looked at it and said, "Why is there a mystery at the end?"  I love how a question mark means "mystery" to him.  It literally does, of course.  We ask questions about mysteries, things we don't know they answer to.  But I thought it so interesting that he would look at that and think that way.  I suppose he made the connection from a book or tv show where a question mark was shown in the context of as mystery.  But I can't think of what book/show it was, yet.  I guess it's a mystery!

    Also, Madeleine has gotten Grant to play “beauty salon” with her the last few days.  She’s got two small chairs sitting one in front of the other, and one will sit in the front and have their hair done by the other one sitting behind.  Madeleine is out there whining now, though, because Grant doesn’t want to play with her right now.  Lots of whining around here at times!