Camping success

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Best hour-long conversation with a 4-year-old....

Me: what's your favorite fruit?
Eva-Jolie: bananas!
Me: niiiiice. you should try eating your bananas with peanut butter some time. It's really good.
EJ: Is that how you eat your bananas? I was thinking about mixing banana with blueberry jam. I think it might turn green. Because I'm pretty sure yellow and blue make green
Me: I think you're right. Can you try it when you get home and let me know what happens?
EJ: ok. Um.......do you know your phone number?
Jeremy (clearly jealous): Uh Becky? Are you giving out phone numbers over there?

Had an army of little girls following me around all weekend. Upon first encounters, assigned everyone an excellent nickname: Dora, Boots, Map, Mary Moo Cow, Swiper (Jeremy) and Backpack (Lydia). As tiring as it was to have multiple children simultaneously attached to each and every one of my limbs, I felt so blessed to be a source of entertainment and childish inspiration to them. Attempted to teach them how to skip rocks at the lake...but the Map kept closing her eyes and flinging rocks in the direction of other children. Found a dead fish, named it Pedro, directed children in making proper burial/eulogy preparations, tried to make Pedro a leaf boat to send him off into the lake (fail), had the the Map throw Pedro's body as far as she could (success).

Performed pretty poorly in the corn-shucking competition. Must begin training for next year....