What Did You Say?

Can you believe it's already November? I think I mentioned that our pool/lawn guy moved back to Brazil at the end of September. We have an electric lawnmower, but still no extension cord... so, um, it's a good thing that we only have a back yard to worry about. What's worse is that it's getting warmer and warmer and about time for us to start using our pool, but it's not clean. We've called around... and I think we might have found someone... so no need to fret about our situation. I think we'll be OK. Our maid is going strong, we were just having trouble with the lawn/pool guy. It really is a tough life, you know.

I took a few notes the last couple of weeks of a few silly things the his have said. During a Family Home Evening, both Claire and Sam said something worthy of repeating. Just like any other three year old who is trying his hardest to pay attention, Sam is hilarious.

CANDACE: Sam, what does it mean to be an example?

SAM: Flashlight.

Um, OK, I guess we'll go with flashlight. I wonder if he would have phrased it as a question if we were playing Jeopardy. Needless to say, he did not collect go or collect 200 dollars. We talked about it a little bit more.

The lesson was on how people believe different things, and that it's OK and we need to be friendly and nice to everyone just the same. Claire jumped up and gave us a perfect example. She proceeded to give a very long description about how her and her best friend "Maggie" believe different things. (Maggie is also in our local LDS ward.) Claire explained that Claire thinks that the saying goes: "Liar, liar, pants on fire, hanging on a telephone wire" but Maggie thinks the saying goes "Liar, liar, pants on fire, stuck up on a telephone wire." Claire said that even though they believed different things, it was OK because they were BFFs and were made for each other. We were happy that message had sunk in.

The below picture is from Sam's school on Halloween. Guess who the youngest of the group is? That's right.... the giant pirate.