Jeremy – Page 8 – Andelin Adventures

Conversations of Christmas

I was in the kitchen shaping snow globe cookies when I hear this conversation in the living room:

Tyra: Guess what Dinah, we saw Santa at the school today.
Jeremy: He wasn’t the real Santa.
Tyra: Ya huh!
Jeremy: No. His beard…was…PLAS-TIC!

Later as I was shaping more cookies I heard this other conversation between my boys:

Jeremy: You know what the candy cane presents?
Ethan: Represents? A “J” for Jesus, and the shepherds crook.
Jeremy: HOW DID YOU KNOW!?!?
Ethan: Because I’m smart.
Jeremy: Do you know what the lights on the tree represent?
Ethan: The light of Christ.
Jeremy: No! They represent the stars!
Ethan: No. They represent the light of Christ.

I love that my children can believe in Santa Claus, but that they also know that Christmas is all about celebrating the birth of our Savior.

Lunch dilema

Every morning I deal with the struggle of finding something for my kids to take to school for lunch. I’m always looking for new ideas because having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich EVERY day, gets old fast. I mean, that’s what my mom used to send me to school with and I NEVER want to eat another peanut butter and jelly sandwich again. But I am getting really sick of sending my kids with a lunch, only to find that they didn’t eat it. Sometimes I don’t find it until much later and it’s a really nasty old lunch in a baggie at the bottom of their backpack or under a pile of their backpacks and jackets on the floor of the entry way. That is just extremely nasty. But here is another problem, if I don’t send my kids to school with a lunch, the school feeds them and then sends me a bill! Now we really can’t afford to be doing school lunch every day. A school lunch costs $1.75, and I’ve got three kids in school during lunch time. That’s $5.25 to get them all a school lunch for a day. $26.25 for a week. $105 per month. That’s a lot of money! But it’s just wasteful to send them with food that they are just going to try to hide from me because they didn’t eat it. So I’ve had some people suggest that I have my kids make their own lunches. I do like that idea. However, I think I need to go grocery shopping before I can start that so they actually have something to put in their lunches. 🙂 Then we will give it a try and see how it goes.

Jeremy turns SEVEN

Jeremy’s birthday ended up being celebrated over the course of a few days. I had a service unit meeting to be at on the evening of his birthday, and just everything else that was going on made it difficult to celebrate on his birthday. So we let him open his presents yesterday.

We sang to him and had cake today.

I really need to be better about celebrating birthdays on the right day. I did pretty well through all of the summer birthdays, then it just seems that every birthday since Adam was born, I haven’t been very well prepared for. I’ll get back on top of things eventually.

Jeremy is enjoying first grade. He is the king of goofy faces in our family. And in general, he is just a really good kid. His primary teachers tell us every week about how much they love having Jeremy in their class. They tell us about how reverent he is. His first grade teacher, Mrs Peterson, also tells us about what a good kid Jeremy is, and how much she loves having him. She was actually quite surprised when we told her that at home he is always making silly faces and when he doesn’t want to answer a question that we have asked him he says “Ba boo boo!” (I honestly don’t know where that phrase came from).

Parents don’t fart

At least, that’s the conversation we overheard between Jeremy, Ethan, and Tyra, as Rebecca and I were in the kitchen.

First, they are eating and we hear a prrbpt sound.
Laughter.
Then, someone declares, “Parents don’t fart.”
And someone adds, “but Liesl does.”

Funny Conversation

Jeremy: Well, we know the next baby is going to be a boy.

Ethan: Well DUH! We need another boy to even things out.

Tyra: Well I KNOW the next baby is going to be a girl!

Ethan: How can you possibly know that?

Jeremy: We just had three girls in a row, now we’ve gotta have three boys in a row!

At this point I couldn’t pretend that I wasn’t listening any longer and I just started laughing at their logic. Of course they all looked at me like I was nuts because I was laughing and what they were saying wasn’t at all funny to them!