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Liam: A bunch of tomorrows have passed and a bunch of Fridays have passed but not tomorrow and not a week from tomorrow. I think I won’t be dead yet a week from tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Me: I hope not!<\/p>\n
Liam: I think I’ll be alive to become a grown up …. and then I’ll put away these childish things.<\/p>\n
***********************<\/p>\n While working on first grade Math, Liam struggled a little with 5-3=2 and 5-2=3. \u00a0I used manipulatives and also explained that this is just like our family. \u00a0We have five in our family, so if the parents go away (2) there are three kids still at home. \u00a0Or if they would go away, there would just be two (the parents) left at home. \u00a0The next day while doing flashcards we got to 5-2. \u00a0He squinted a little then said quietly to himself, “Ok, 5 take away the parents…..”<\/p>\n ***********************<\/p>\n When the hand soap ran low in the hallway bathroom Liam marched through our bedroom on his way to our bathroom to wash his hands. \u00a0“The soap in Zara’s bathroom quit giving birth,” he announced.<\/p>\n ***********************<\/p>\n Liam and Adam spent two days with our friends, Keith and Jeanne, while Zara was at Johns Hopkins. \u00a0On Sunday, my parents picked them up, brought them to the hospital to see us, and then took them along home to Virginia. \u00a0The boys attended their local church school. Fortunately, Liam is doing the same curriculum they are and even though he is ahead of where they are, he was able to do some of his work. \u00a0Liam LOVED school so very much. \u00a0When he got home he was telling me about it. \u00a0Then he got a funny little grin as he talked about his teacher. \u00a0“She had a certain voice (he meant accent).” \u00a0He stopped to giggle again. \u00a0“I can’t get it right. \u00a0Taaaaaaast,” (test) he said, in a southern Virginia drawl.<\/p>\n *************************<\/p>\n Whenever we get to a bigger town it is immediately obvious that the boys have forgotten how to act outside of backwoods USA. We were in Winchester and I was constantly worrying they’d get hit because they just bounced out of the vehicle, dragged along behind or ran precariously in front of us. \u00a0They’re old enough not to have to stick close as a burr, but goodness, they’ve all but forgotten how to be aware of traffic. \u00a0At the next stop when Liam just disappeared behind the van before I was even out of it, I started the normal, “wait, where’s Liam? Tell him to come back here,” frantic kind of mumble jumble.<\/p>\n Adam: “Oh, just stop worrying.”<\/p>\n Me: “This is serious. Do you realize kids have been killed in parking lots?”<\/p>\n Adam quite nonchalantly: “Oh, don’t you hear his jolly voice?”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n