Schema

While I was going to school to get my degree in Elementary Ed the professors were always talking about schema...I guess it is just a fancy way of saying background knowledge...anyways...last week while we were in Utah...I learned a lot about my kids' schema...

Christian, Nina, and I were on a walk with G-pa and G-ma....Christian spotted an old tree...most of its limbs were cut off so it was just a large, tall trunk with a few large stubs of branches (can you picture it?)...Christian shouted... "Hey look at that cactus!!"

When we told Matthew about the house we will be living in up there we told him that there is an upstairs and a downstairs...He was beyond excited...He said, "I can't wait to tell my friends at church that our house has an underground level!" (instead of basement...in case you weren't following the theme...:))

My sister was holding Grant and he spit up on her...She said it was gross and went to get a rag. Matthew said, "Hey that's nothing...are your kids adopted...because that is just what babies do..."

And then just a funny from Nina...
We were at church...and she was NOT being reverent. The lady in front of us gave her some paper and a crayon to draw with. She said no...so I asked her, "Please Nina, won't you draw me a pretty picture?" She looked at me, handed me the paper and crayon and said in a very sweet voice, "No...you do yourself."