The Questions

Ok I thought I would post every sunday and that would be fun but let me just give you a run down of the anticipated schedule we have for sunday. And nothing ever goes as anticipated in this house so keep that in mind.  Josh has meetings and it is his turn to do tithings this sunday so I literally dont really get to talk to him between 8 and 4.  When picking up Josh from school yesterday his professor came over to introduce herself(yes this is the first time I have met his professor even though we have been here over a year- so not BYU) and to ask if we were coming to her dinner this sunday-oh you know the one Josh forgot to mention to me.  I kept honestly picturing the dinner from Princess diaries where she set fire to the man next to hers shirt and ate ice cream too fast and dropped stuff under the table- just knew we would be that family that made a scene and received glares.  Luckily after asking more questions I found out it is a cook out!  Outside! yes!  we can do that!  Sometimes.  So of course the cook-out is at 4.  Josh says he should be home in plenty of time.  I try to inform him I usually dont get home until 3 or 3:30.  his response: "church gets out at 2!  what are you doing for an hour and a half?"  oh gee let me see: I have to wait for all the moms to pick up their kids from primary class than some how gather all my children, some how get supplies back to the library with 4 kids and then pack up.  Argue with the kids why we cant stay and get in line to get candy from the bishop only to lose that argument and stand in line and wait for my kids to ALWAYS pick out the candy they dislike just so they can spit it out in the car to make a sticky mess for me to clean later (thanx kids love ya!)  then buckle everyone in see if Josh needs a ride or not and then cry all the way home which makes it hard to see so I have to drive slower!  Oh and of course we get home and 70% of the time I have 2 out of 4 kids sleep that I have to take turns carrying in!   So yes a dinner at 4 will be pushing it.  After the dinner it is our turn to teach the temple prep class to about 12 adults in our home.  Did I mention we are in the middle of moving?  yeah our house is pretty rough right now.  So there is our sunday and a very long explanation why I am not writing on sunday.
     What I really wanted to talk about was the questions my kids ask me.  Ok mostly the 4 and 5 year old the other 2 still arent noticing too much outside their little worlds (unless it involves something with an engine for the 2 year old and any smiling for the 3 month old- she loves to smile ALL DAY LONG!)  It impresses me the questions they can come up with.  My children thankfully have yet to go through the million never ending "Why" phase.  Instead I get questions like "how do fish breath under water?"  "how do cars go?"  "What do polar bears eat?"  and "what makes water".  Whats crazy is when we tell them the answer (which most of them I didnt learn until highschool or sometimes even college) they actually seem to get it.  Like for instance the last question "what makes water?"  was asked by my 5 year old and when I told her hydrogen and oxygen she immediately said "but I thought oxygen was the air!"  We then had a discussion about molecules and what happens with boiling water  and it eventually turned into discussing the production of oxygen through photosynthesis.  She loved it!  And of course at this point as a parent you begin to swell with prideful thoughts like "my kid is a genius!". That of course is shattered when you next hear stuff like "look mom I am talking to the trash can 'well how are you today sir'" or they pull their legs back behind their head and use their butt as a drum "haha!  look at this!".  There are the other questions too like "are wolves real?" "do we eat dirt?"  "are we real?" that make me wonder what they are thinking about.  I hate it though when I get stumped with questions I cant answer. All I have to say is thank goodness for the internet.  Someday maybe  I will go back to school so I can learn all the answers to my kids questions!  But for now I think I will stick to stay at home motherhood and google!