Scraps of Paper

Time for another edition of "things my kids said in the past several months that I thought were worth jotting down".  The problem is that they are scribbled on scraps of paper without any context and sometimes I'm not sure whether it was Priya or Sanjay that made the comment.  I'll do my best to recall as much as I can.

Talking about a kid in his class, Sanjay held his hands up to his cheeks and said "That kid... he was puffy".  Later when he was describing someone else he said, "She has a skinny head".  I seem to recall that after he told me who he was talking about, this description was indeed perfect.

Priya had a substitute teacher for one of her classes and apparently the lady was not exactly one of the friendliest.  After school she described her like this to me:  "Mrs. Weaver, which silently in my head I called Mrs. Beaver, she was really, really mean".

"No I didn't hear you.  I was wide asleep"  - Sanjay (in all seriousness)

"My smelling powers ejects me that we are almost home" - Sanjay (This one is really old and may have been blogged previously.  It was uttered on the drive back home from the airport after a long visit to Maryland.)

"It's really shiny.  It's like the world is inviting me outside." - Priya in the car on a particularly sunny morning.

Sanjay has been enjoying a book series called "The Pet Fairies".  He's blown through several of the books already and keeps asking for more.  I don't know if his friends are asking or what but he has become a little self-conscious about reading books that might typically look like "girl" books.  He said to me "I thought the girls would be embarrassed of me" and then later that night asked Priya if she was.  She thought it was really cute and came running to tell me about it.

"It doesn't really hurt that much.  It's like... in the medium." - Sanjay about some pain that he was having.

"I want him to go on to the seventy finals." - Sanjay watching a tennis match.

"I expect all old mans to like country.  Or some other music that was back then." - Sanjay after pulling up to a car at a traffic light where an old man was inside jamming to pop music.

"The patriots are versing the Kansas City and the Patriots are winning. It is 10 to 3. The Kansas City they can't, they can't come up. They are so bad." - Sanjay explaining to Daddy over the phone what's going on with the football game.

"I'll just do it, like, $2.99 and keep the price.  I won't do tax." - Sanjay regarding pricing at his yard sale.

The Powerful Lure of the Haiku

Priya has been learning about the Japanese style poem called a haiku. They are made up of 3 lines each having a specific number of syllables. The first line has 5, next has 7 and the final line has 5. She had to submit a couple for her homework assignment a few days ago. Since then she has been creating quite the collection of haikus. She told me yesterday, "Mom writing haikus is addicting. I'm really into it and I can't stop". I may reference this post in the future when she's a teen and may have other ideas of what's addictive. Here are her most recent poems with the capitalization and punctuation maintained.


Home
Warm and comforting
Keeping us safe in our lives
Earth will protect us

Wonderful Things
Trees, flowers, and life
Oh all these wonderful things
Colors, grass and... Friends

Fort of Love
Fort of love this earth
Spirits sing, We care, Plants give
Surrounded by love

Mountains
Tall figures tower,
Majestically, very high
Up into the sky

Rivers
leaping and playing,
washing through the forest green
Raging Rivers play

Creatures of the Earth
Playing Manatees
Laughing dolphins, dancing birds
Creatures of the Earth

Paradise
Earth; a Paradise
Worth a thousand coins of gold
a place of beauty

The Storm
Winds blow with great force
Thunder booms, lightning crashes
rain pours from the clouds

Sanjay's edit for the last haiku:
The Storm
Winds blow with great force
Thunder booms, lightning strikes down
rain pours from the clouds