Thanks so much to Amah and Akong, who spent the week with us for the last week of summer vacation. Doug and I went to work, and they had all THREE of them all day long. And they survived.
Here you can see us enjoying a Saturday morning at the Y. Jason is playing basketball somewhere behind us.
Amah and Akong were in the car during a conversation we have been having with Michael and Jason for weeks now. I didn't understand it at first, but Michael asks me all the time, while I'm driving, "Mommy, how did we get here?"
It took me days to realize he was not asking about our place in the universe, but rather how we got there--grammatically.
He wanted to know if Daddy "drove" there or if Daddy was "driving." For a while, everyone "drived" everywhere.
Both of them still don't get the answers we give them, but they always ask. So, we have to try to explain tenses to them, which they really don't understand.
"So Mommy, how did we get here?"
These days, I have to give him two answers, both of which they don't really understand, and they don't agree with.
"Well, Daddy drove to the movies earlier, and right now, Daddy is driving to the mall."
"No he didn't," Michael always says. "Daddy drived to the movies."
And so the conversation continues.
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