"We are middle school"

It seems like over the past week or so Adrian has been saying/doing some of the cutest stuff. I have had many belly laughs courtesy of him and I want to remember these things as well as spread some laughter in the world.

It started last week, on Friday I dropped him off at Grandma's house for school and she decided it was such a beautiful day that they would walk to school. When she announced the plan to walk to conversation went something like this:

A: Umm, I don't think I am supposed to walk to school. I am supposed to go in a car. Does my dad know that you walk to school?

G: Yes, he knows and it is fine.

A: But, how many minutes will it take?

G: Not that many, remember that day we walked home from school?

A: Yes, but that was home from school, not to school.

G: Well, today we are walking to school so lets go.

Adrian I guess then proceeded to go outside, open the car door and buckle himself in! Grandma said to get out of the car we are walking. He did and the walk was nice, but isn't that hilarious?!

With this story in mind on Tuesday night I decided that I wanted to walk Reese in the morning and why not walk Adrian to school and go from there. I announced the plan to walk to school in the morning. Adrian had a look on his face like I was an alien from outer space and...

A: Walk to school? Why?
Me: Because, it will be nice and it isn't that far.

A: How many minutes will it take?

Me: not too long, don't worry about it. I will make sure you are there on time.

A: What is with everyone wanting to walk to school all of the sudden?

Ahh, the innocence of childhood! One of my favorites happened last night after dinner. Andrew and I were talking about my upcoming ultrasound appointment and asked Adrian if he thought baby is a boy or a girl and we told him we were going to find out. He seemed confused as to how so I thought I would explain it to him...

A: How can you find out what it is?

Me: The doctor's have a special kind of camera that can see through my stomach and see baby. Then they will look to see if baby has boy parts or girl parts.

A: (after thinking for a second and the with a very concerned look on his face) do you mean the baby is naked?

Me: Well, yes the baby is naked. That is how baby's grow and are born.

A: (now truly mortified) But why is the baby naked? Can't we put some clothes on the baby? We should give the baby clothes and let it get dressed so that baby isn't naked anymore.

If he hadn't looked so serious and concerned I think I would have died from laughter at that moment, but after a few minutes of explanation he seemed to be okay with the fact that baby is naked now, as long as we put clothes on baby as soon as it is no longer in my stomach.

Tonight takes the cake though! I had childhood flashbacks as the dinner conversation unfolded. I could hear my parents with their "there are starving children in the world..." routine and it was eerie. For dinner we were eating chicken and rice and Adrian was picking all the chicken out and avoiding the rice. Andrew told Adrian to eat his rice too and this conversation took place...

Andrew: Don't you know that you have more food in your bowl than some kids get to eat in an entire day? You are so lucky to have that food and you should eat it. There are people in this world who think that Americans are all wealthy because we are fat and have lots of food.

Adrian: Are we rich?

Andrew: Some might say we are. We have a house, two cars in the driveway, a fridge and cupboards full of food as well as extra food stored in the garage. To some people that makes us rich even though we aren't.

Adrian: that's right, we aren't rich. We are middle school.

At this point Andrew and I looked at each other confused for a second when I realized he meant middle class!

Me: Do you mean middle class?

Adrian: oh, yeah. I knew it was somewhere kids go... school, class, one of those. We are middle class aren't we?

Andrew: I guess you could say that.

Adrian: ___ is poor class. I don't want us to be poor class. Will we ever be poor?

Andrew: Well, after we have a bunch more kids running around we probably will be!

Adrian: Let's just try to stay middle class.

I don't think there is anything cuter than kids that are trying to understand grown-ups and our concerns, but they have a sweet and innocent way of making it all look not so important. I don't know where we fall in definitions of class, but I do know that we are greatly blessed and have more than our bare necessities. I am thankful for having a home, cars, food, and all that. I hear myself complain about things a lot... wanting something different with the house (sometimes a whole new house!), cheaper gas/better cars, better food, etc. But really, when I think about it and look around I have more than enough. To steal a line from one of my all time favorite movies "my cup runneth over."