not this cute anymore!Ben is the MEMORY king. It's not exactly photographic-- it's more verbal. When he hears something, he seriously files it away in his brain and it never leaves. This makes homeschooling pretty easy... but parenting him can sometimes be annoying because he pulls random facts out of nowhere.. and always holds me to my word (he will bring up things I said FOUR years ago during some unusual circumstance and I hate having to explain why things are now different... just let me bet the parent and do what I say!)
These past few months, our homeschooling group of friends have been doing rotating classes for the older kids. Today is the ice cream party for those who have passed off ALL 50 State capitals in their social studies group. Ben has known his capitals for at least a year--- he learned them completely on his own, with no coaching from me. (I believe we had a United States place mat a while back and Ben took it upon himself to memorize them.) Luke knows most of them, but that's only because Ben really wants him to go to the party and has been quizzing him the past couple of weeks. I swear to you, ten minutes after waking up this morning, Ben was already giving Luke a pop quiz. I was laying next to them in bed when this conversation took place.
These past few months, our homeschooling group of friends have been doing rotating classes for the older kids. Today is the ice cream party for those who have passed off ALL 50 State capitals in their social studies group. Ben has known his capitals for at least a year--- he learned them completely on his own, with no coaching from me. (I believe we had a United States place mat a while back and Ben took it upon himself to memorize them.) Luke knows most of them, but that's only because Ben really wants him to go to the party and has been quizzing him the past couple of weeks. I swear to you, ten minutes after waking up this morning, Ben was already giving Luke a pop quiz. I was laying next to them in bed when this conversation took place.
Ben: I know you know Mississippi.
Luke: groan.
Ben: Luke, just think of ME... more like my middle name.
Luke: Oh duh. Jackson.
Ben: Good. Now South Dakota. You always have a hard time remembering this.
Luke: Give me a hint.
Ben: hmm. when you have to go to the bathroom really bad.
Luke takes a long pause and then his eyebrows raise as if he's finally figured out the answer. Then his cute morning voice says:
DIARRHEA....?
It took several minutes for us to stop laughing... Zack particularly thought it was funny and kept repeating "The capital of South Dakota is DIARRHEA. Ha!" Ben finally calmed down and informed us all that no state capital would be that gross.
The capital of SD is, in fact, PEE-AIR.
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I love it! Yesterday Madisen was singing a song in the bathroom about having diarrhea. And this was of course after Caitlyn came out of the bathroom informing us all that Madisen had diarrhea. Why do kids love potty humor?
Hilarious. Reading all of your home schooling stories makes me want to try it. My oldest has an amazing memory too and I KNOW she could learn more than what she's learning. I just don't know if I'm patient enough.
Janet, that is hilarious! I'm glad you wrote it down, the boys will laugh about it forever! Congrats also on being pregnant. That is exciting news!
i love it. thanks for all the fun things you share! best of luck and blessings in all you are doing! no wonder you are in a funk... pregnancy sums it all up. love ya, girl.
I don't care how old you are, diarrhea is always funny!
I will never, ever forget the capital of South Dakota again...
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