Kennedy

"Mom, can you take a picture of me because I look so pretty."

I agree Kennedy. You do look so pretty.

Genius

We are doing a little construction around here and Mason was wondering why we were putting a window in the baby's new bedroom. So... we talked about how all of the bedrooms in the house have windows and then I, being the GENIUS that I am, thought it was a great time to talk about fires. (which he has learned about at school and has meet the firefighters and been on the truck and gone through the smoke filled house)

So I explained that all the rooms need a window JUST IN CASE there was a fire. Then we could get out quickly so that no one would get hurt. Of course I went on to talk about smoke and signs of a fire and how he should quickly open his window, push the screen out, jump out and run to the neighbors and tell them to call 911.

His chin started quivering and then he said, "Well I'll run to Kennedy's room and help her out first." Then there was more chin quivering and with a very shaky voice he said, "What about all my new (sobbing now) books? I LOVE my books. And my bed, I really like my bed. ALL my stuff would be gone."

I'm a genius. I'll bet he doesn't sleep a wink tonight.

(We did talk more about it and I think he feels okay now.)