Friday, November 21, 2008

Conversations with Samuel

Today we dropped daddy off at the airport for a weekend trip to Boston for a conference. We didn't tell Samuel until last night at dinner because we were worried about his reaction (still hasn't quite recovered from Turkey...). He seemed okay, just wanted to talk about it. I overheard Ben and Samuel talking last night as they are looking at the map we have in the hallway...
B: Samuel, see this? This is Boston. That's where daddy will be for 3 days and 3 nights. What
letter does Boston start with?
S: "B!"
B: "And here, see this? This is C*****, where we live! What letter does this start with?"
S: "C"
Insert a few more rumblings and then Samuel comes running into the bedroom where I am
getting Zakkai dressed.
S: "Mommy! Daddy is going to Bostom and it starts with a B!"


Fast forward to this afternoon as we're driving away from dropping daddy off. We are having a running discourse on what daddy is doing and the whole process of flying:
Mommy: "And daddy is going to stand in line and get all checked in, hand them his ticket..etc,
etc. The plane will take off and he will fly to Boston and he will call us when he gets to his
hotel!"
There is silence for a few minutes as Samuel digests this information...
Samuel: "And daddy will be in Bostom and then I am going to get on an airpwane and buckle
myself in and fwy to Turkey!"
Mommy: "You are?! Wow!"
Samuel: "Yeah, but I'm not gonna fwy on a big airpwane cause big airpwanes might make me
cwy. I'm gonna fwy on a small airpwane."
Mommy:"Oh, I see. Maybe we can all fly on an airplane together sometimes."
Samuel: "Well, maybe Zakkai and Samuel can fwy on a small airpwane since we're small wittle people and you an' daddy can fwy on a big airpwane cause you're big people!"
Mommy: "Oh, you think so?"
Samuel: "Yeah. Zakkai, you wanna fwy on a small airpwane?"
Zakkai: "small air-pane"
Samuel: "Zakkai says he wants to fwy on a small airpwane, too!"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I SO ENJOY HEARING ABOUT THE BOYS. I LAUGHED ABOUT SAMUEL'S CONVERSATIONS.

MOM

Tom and Eileen Rider said...

So does Samuel take after Ben in his line of thought? Thanks for keep us up to date on what is happening in your household.

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