Morris Scoop

Thomas the Tank takes a trip

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:37:58 +0000

So Eliza was playing with Thomas in the driveway - the one with the battery that can putter his way over some impressive terrain for a train. Anyway, I was talking politics with the neighbor and PJ comes running over. “Uh-oh! Eliza put Thomas in the tailpipe!”

I ran over afraid to look. I peered in. Thomas had been put in with his engine running. He had traveled up the tailpipe and through the muffler. He must have been 20 inches in. What to do?

I got a flashlight. And a telescoping magnet. But the magnet end kept sticking to the edges of muffler and wasn’t long enough anyway. Another neighbor, Glenn, came over with a longer telescoping magnet and a claw. No success with either.

Finally, Rodney gets the shop vac. No luck at first. He takes all the attachments off and stuffs the hose in as far as he can get it. It sucks Thomas halfway out. A second try retrieves him! Yay!

They oughtta make a movie of that!

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:07:59 +0000

I bring Jade, another 4 year old resident son, to preschool with us every M/W/F morning. Well, Jade and PJ were cut from the same block of stubbornness and argue pretty constantly on the drive to and from. As a result, they sit in different rows in the van - Jade in the back and PJ in the middle row (as he has a tendency to get carsick).

This particular Wednesday, Jade was playing with his “bumblecar” as PJ calls it - a transformer looking thing, probably from a McDonald’s happy meal. He was narrating his play and saying, “PJ, my robot can raise from the dead!” And goes on about the super-powers of his robot. PJ thinks about this and tells him, “No, Jade, robots can’t raise from the dead!” Jade: “Yes! Only robots and Jesus can raise from the dead!” And a fight ensues.

Anyway, I decide to enter on this one, as raising from the dead seems to be something that should be straightened out theologically a little bit. My Practical Theology Degree allows me to do this with grace and skill. “Jade, only Jesus raised from the dead.” Which, is not really correct theologically either! But anyway, Jade enthusiastically agrees. “That’s why we have Easter, because Jesus raised from the dead.”

PJ can’t resist correcting him. “No, Jade, Jesus raised from the died.”

After that arguement dies down, Jade adds, “That’s a good movie about Jesus raising from the dead.”

“Jade, it’s not a movie,” I say, “it really happened. There’s no movie, Jesus did raise from the dead.”

Jade replied, “They should make a movie about that! I wanna see that movie! God should make that movie!!!”

Sigh.

Waking up is hard to do

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:56:07 +0000

PJ was up in the middle of the night last night. Had to go to the bathroom at 1:30am of course. He’s still up at 3 - I hear him quietly talking to himself. I go in to check on him. “PJ, if you don’t go to sleep, I’m going to have a hard time waking you up for preschool in the morning.” Quiet pause in the darkness. “You’ll have a hard time waking me up if I’m already awake?” He asked, not a hint of sarcasm in his little 4 year old voice.

On the pot…

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:48:26 +0000

PJ was on the toilet tonite with Eliza in the bath.
Out of the blue he says, “I’m God’s home, right?”
And I say, “If you invite him in your heart, you are. Do you want to invite him in your heart?”
“Yeah!” he says.
“Do you want to pray, or do you want me to?”
“I want you to.”
So I pray, “Dear Lord, PJ wants to invite you into his heart. OK, PJ, invite him.”
So PJ says, “God come into my heart.”
And that was pretty much it. Then later I think to myself, we didn’t really ask Jesus in.
So I say, “Hey, PJ, we need to invite Jesus into your heart because he’s the one that makes it possible to have God in your heart. It’s because of his work on the cross that we can have a relationship with him.”
“OK.”
So I pray, “Jesus, please come into PJ’s heart. OK, PJ, ask him in.”
Then PJ invited Jesus into his heart. And I do think this really means something for him - he’s such a non-conformist.

100 in the shade

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:33:35 +0000

Jade knocked me over

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:46:52 +0000

“What happened?! Are you OK?” I asked when PJ fell off the green table.

”Jade knocked me over,” he replied.

“Jade’s not even here!” I said.

“He did a miracle… somehow…” was his retort.

Welcome Simon!!!

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Born at home, May 24, 2008! Way to go, Kym and Mark!

My two cuties

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:05:45 +0000

Frequent Flyer Tickets

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:49:55 +0000

Just got frequent flyer tickets to Alaska. I’m going early with the kids - August 5th. Then Josh will come August 12 and we’ll stay until August 19. Chose the seats using http://www.seatguru.com - should be interesting to see how helpful that was… Anyway, I wasn’t about to attempt flying with both kids by myself until I talked to Krista. Try complaining about travel to a single mom of 3 kids… she traveled to Mexico with them recently. She said, and I almost quote, get your butt up here. You can’t just stay a week! People are so helpful when you travel with kids. I told her I beg to differ. I’ve had some pretty horrendous airline trips. But she said she had, too. I think the difference is, she’s not shy about asking for help and when she gets an answer she doesn’t like, she just keeps asking until she finds someone nice! Now there’s a good example of someone who’s gone from a “slave to heir” mentality!

Plague

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:07:25 +0000