Blessed 2b Home

Well I wasnt going to sit down but I just had too. I ran this morning which is fine.. but add on to that a trip to the library and HEB.. then a hour cleaning at home.. and well.. I MUST sit down.. or my feet will not forgive me.

I do have a few things about the kids I wanted to post so I dont forget them.
First of all Joseph is fine... the doc said he would grow out of it.. we will have to make sure he has high quality shoes when he gets to be a teenager but other than that he should be fine.

The kids have really gotten into a poetry CD that Melissa shared with us.. anyway.. they are on a quest to learn Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. (I am sure the fact that M and M have it memorized has NOTHING to do with that :) .. ANYWAY .. I have heard the poem so many times I should have it memorized but I dont. We were riding in the car on the way home from HEB and another poem on the CD comes on.. and I said.. OH this is by the same person that did Jabberwocky!" and Catherine replies.. without a seconds pause.. "NO MOM>> this poem is by Robert Lewis Stephenson.. Jabberwocky is by Lewis Carroll!" ... ........
"OH.. yes .. very good.. you are right.. my mistake!"

Last night Joseph was wondering what a X ray was. (He knew the doc was going to take a xray but didnt know what it was).. I said.. well. .. a x ray is a picture they take that shows the bones inside your body.. he said.. "OH.. I KNOW That.. I mean.. how does it work?" .. of course .. off to the internet.. heres what if found:
"x-ray (n.) A relatively high-energy photon having a wavelength in the approximate range from 0.01 to 10 nanometers."
I read that to Joseph and then he says.. "oh.. ok.. .. so what is a photon?"..
(can I just pause here and minute and say.. HE IS SIX YEARS OLD! I am going to explain what a PHOTON is to a 6 year old! .. .. ).. so here is what I found:
"photon (n.) The quantum of electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime."
Joseph said.. OH.. OK.... so what does the machine actually look like? .. so I found a picture and showed it to him.. He said.. Oh.. ok .. thanks Mom! and ran off..


Nathan has become fasinated once again with taking things apart.. I had a little disusion this afternoon about how some things are made to NEVER be taken apart.. from now on.. if he wants to take something apart. he has to come and ask mom or dad.. (I can just see walking into his room and the keyboard of the computer or the bed or something has been dismantled!) Also .. today at the library the kids were looking at a Jabberwocky book and nathan read "the slithy toves" .. (so .. he's FOUR!...... atleast i think he is four.. isnt he?) .. wow!

(all in a day's work I say)
so with that .. I will leave you.. as my feet ache.. with the poem you have hear so much about..


JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


I should have it memorized by my 40th birthday.. thats 2 years.. yeah.. that's it!