Red and Yellow, Black and White ...

Last night Miles and I ran to Wal-Mart before dinner (his Lightning McQueen race car blew a tire). When we got there, we got our things and had to wait in line for a while. The lady in front of us was talking to Miles and we introduced ourselves. She shook his hand and when she did he just looked at her arm. Then he said, "You don't have this color on" and rubbed his arm. I felt the color RED rush to my cheeks since we haven't ever really had an indepth conversation with Miles about people being different colors. I was getting a little nervous about what was next. She said, "What color do I have on"? He said, "Black". She just smiled and asked him what color he had on and he said, "Orange". She laughed but I was curious so I said, "What color do I have on"? He looked at me and said, "Yellow". Still a little nervous, I said, "We are all colors of the rainbow aren't we"? The lady was so nice but I think it tickled her soe she just laughed and laughed. So much so that then Miles turned RED and covered his face with his shirt.

As we walked off to the self-checkout (since the line was too long), Miles said, "Why does she talk like that"? And I wasn't quite ready for another cross-cultural lesson so I just asked, "Like what"? But I don't know if he really has words for what he meant yet ... are there words for it?

I wish I could see the world from his vantage point sometimes. Things are so simple and so black and white (well, black and orange and yellow ... and sometimes red).

Easter

Easter has come and gone and we had a great time this year. We made it a point to read the Children's Bible every day during the Easter season so that the Boys would capture the real meaning of Easter. In fact, The Bunny wasn't ever even mentioned and no one seemed to miss it at all!

We did talk a lot about Jesus riding a donkey into town. Miles thought that was very cool. He loved that the people put their coats down for the donkey to walk on and one day we made some "hosanna" palm branches here at the house and celebrated!

For cards, we sent family homemade cards (see photos). We made a little chick with Miles' hands, and when I decided to use Will's feet print, I wanted to do something to celebrate the season. We ended up making his footprint arch into the empty tomb! See how it turned out.

We had Jake's side of the family over on Saturday for an Egg Hunt and lunch and had a great time.

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Today, is Friday so it's stay-in-your-jammies-until-late-day. Will got to sleep until almost 9:00 (I'm so jealous)! After we finally got dressed and had breakfast we loaded up the stroller and attached it to the bike and went to "King of the Hill". I met Mrs. Lois the other day (King of the Hill is on her property) and she re-introduced herself to me today. She is 90 years old and I had a great time talking to her while the boys played in the water.

Miles loves to get a walking stick and make it into a fishing pole, a sword (today he said, "we're soldiers - fighting for good") or even making them into "trains" as he has running commentary from Thomas movies. Will's favorite thing is to throw balls into the culvert on one side and we RUUUUUUN across the road to see them pop out on the other side.

Miles brought me a handful of rocks and said, "you be Goliath and I'll be David". Trying to be a good mom, I was thinking, "is he really going to try to throw those at my head and am I willing to let him" because I just LOVED that the Bible is becoming alive to him. Needless to say, before I could finish the thought process he had chucked them all into the creek.