Since Evan is learning about the body in school, we've had many conversations about body parts and where they are located and what each part is used for. It's quite cute to hear him talk about his heart and what it does. He even sings a song about scraping his knee or cutting his finger - loosing blood and platelets. He knows the whole song, but when he sings it....I can tell there's a few missed words. OH! Which reminds me about the funniest thing ever - I have to share this!
Over the summer, Evan was in the summer school program and they taught him some other songs. Songs, of course I've never heard of - or they were unfamiliar to me, however being that Cy grew up "hippie" he knew these songs (i.e., "Blowing in the Wind" and "The Yellow Submarine"). Well, there was this one song Evan sang, the beginning goes like - "Oats and beans and barley grows, oats and beans and barley grows" blah, blah, blah -- I can't remember the rest. But, having to hear him sing this just makes me think - What in the world? On our first parent/teacher meeting, one of the parents had asked if there was any way for us parents to get the lyrics of the songs the kids sing in school. She also said, it's very hard to comprehend what her child was singing, when she repeatedly sang, "Boats are mean and Marley's a hoe". THE WHOLE ENTIRE ROOM FILLED WITH LAUGHTER! Hilarious. I still don't know the whole song to "Oats and Beans" and we still haven't received the lyrics to the songs either.
Okay, real quick - getting back to Evan learning his body parts. In conversation about the lungs, he gestures what the lungs do (as he breathes in and out). Well, I said, "Evan, you have very healthy lungs. Do you know happens if you smoke?", he replies, "No, what happens?", I reply, "Your lungs turn black, and you can get sick and can also get cancer too". He was really like, yuck - black lungs. I emphasized on it b/c A) I don't want my kid to smoke - AT ALL and B) try to let him know that smoking is bad for you. So, now, when he sees someone smoking he is not ashamed to speak his mind out loud and will say, "Eww...look at that (lady or man) who's smoking, Mommy, his lungs will be black". And I say, "Yep - that's right, and smoking is bad for you, right Evan?" He agrees.
Just the other day, we were driving home from school and we were talking about birthday's - be it that my birthday was coming up. All of a sudden, as I was driving, he says, "Mommy, when I turn 7 years old, I'm not going to smoke, because smoking is bad." I COULD NOT HELP not to chuckle...and then he proceeded to tell me that none of his other friend's smoke at school. Thank goodness!
My Boy! What can I say? He makes me laugh!
Okay - for some ODD REASON, when I posted my birthday dinner picture @ Miyabi's (Sept. 24th, 2009), it comes up as a big red x. So, I'll have to figure it out later. Have a great weekend!
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