Two tales from the final pre-baby days
December 17, 2009As we count down the minutes until Besher’s little brother arrives, wanted to record two tales from this past week.
The first happened yesterday as Sara and I were guest speakers at Besh’s class for circle time. Our topic: Chanukah. That’s an easy enough subject if you’ve been celebrating it for three decades or so, but what makes it challenging is presenting to a group of inquisitive three, four, and five year olds.
Hats off to Sara who tackled the actual story of Chanukah. I was trying to figure out how to tell the story without getting all scary with war and battles and a ransacked temple, but Sara dove right in and explained there was a war and Israel won. Well there ya go.
We then showed them dreidels and how (roughly) to play. Also spoke about menorahs and latkes before giving them some latkes for snack time (with sour cream and applesauce, of course).
Before latkes, Miss Aimee asked the class if anyone had any questions. Kids raised their hands and asked us the following:
“I got my haircut at my dad’s haircut place and I got a lollipop.”
“I think lanterns are hot when they are lit so you have to turn the fan on to cool them off.” (That was Besh)
“Chocolate milk!!!”
Miss Aimee then reminded the class what a question sounded like. Turns out we didn’t have any questions.
Second tale happened last night. At dinner Sara was telling Besh how tomorrow night (as I write this, tonight) was our final night just the three of us since his little brother would be here on Friday. Sara asked if there was anyplace special that Besh would like to go for dinner. Sara, being 9 months pregnant, and also being Sara, was a bit emotional while asking Besh. As her eyes welled up, Besh thought about his options and then happily proclaimed “I know! Wendy’s!”
Sara and I burst into laughter. Besh later admitted he was just kidding (we rarely go there, but that was a favorite of his until the unfortunate vanilla Frosty incident). Remains to be seen where we go, but nice to know Besh still has a sense of humor about all these changes.
