Getting squished!!!!! You don't come back from that Luky!

This Monday for Family Home Evening the kids and I did an activity outside in the sun, and I think it is going to be one that they remember for awhile. I took this idea from my Mom. She demonstrated it to my older brother and sister many years ago and though I don't think I was around to get the visual demonstration I have heard the story and I thought it was a good one. (Feel free to use this in you own FHE)

We went down to Safeway (.25 miles) and asked for some of their throw away fruit (it's hard to pay for fruit you are just going to squish, kindof wasteful). Then we brought our oranges home (one for each child). We drew our faces on a piece of paper and taped them to our orange. Then I let the kids go put themselves out in the road (to represent playing in traffic :) then I got in the car and proceded to run them over. (they watched in horror as I destroyed their oranges) We then got to clean up the SQUISHED drippy mess off the road. After they stopped crying we had a talk about how much mom and dad would cry if one of my babies got squished on the road. We'll see if next time I say, "STOP! CAR! Do you want to get squished like an orange?" if they listen.

This is a funny side note. A Jaceyism as Christina might say. Jacey was placing her orange in the road and told Lucas "now watch out Lucas, you don't come back from being squished." This is something I have told her a number of times.





Might I suggest if you do this demonstration that you buy enough oranges to feed some to the kids afterwards, cause they were a little distraught when I didn't have any for them to eat.

Interview with the Kids... kind of.

I finally did it! I did the kid interview after dinner tonight and I got a whole lot of blank stares and shoulder shrugging but when I put some of the questions in simpler terms these are the answers I got. Lucas lost interest after question 6. So mostly this is Jacey trying to play along but it would be interesting to see this again in a few years. However Lucas is now asking if we can go to town. Enjoy.


1. What is something mom always says to you?
(Jacey) "Eat my food."
(Lucas) copying Jacey- "eat my food." adding on his own. "POPCORNNN!!!"

2. What makes mom happy?
(J) "kissing momma and giving her love...and eating our food."
(L) "YOUUU!"

3. What makes mom sad?
(J) "spilling my milk and dinkin' around."
(L) "because."


4. How does your mom make you laugh?
(J) "playing around with me and tickling me."
(L) because


5. What was your mom like as a child?
(J)"baby toys" what? then she says "goo goo- ga momma"
(L) "You"

6. How old is your mom? this took some explaining, You're 4, Lucas is 2, how old is momma?
(J) Holding up all her fingers, "Jacey, how many is that?" then counting, "10,11,12" "So how old am I? "4?... 8?...9?"
(L) "you"

7. How tall is your mom?
(J) she stood up and reached into the air, "this big- no" reaching higher "this big!"
(L) leaves the room at this point.

8. What is her favorite thing to watch on TV?
(J) "cats and dogs swinging on swings" that made me laugh. then she says and "flick." I'm assuming that is bug's life the movie.

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
(J) "Worry" I thought that was interesting, but probably some piece of a conversation we had long ago.


10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
(J) "choices" if only I could be famous for making choices.

11. What is your mom really good at?
(J) "building a tower"
(L) "power lines" (this is what daddy is really good at), somehow he thinks all the good things done in the world originate with powerlines, wonder where he got that idea?? :)


12. What is your mom not very good at?
(J) falling down- (I'm not sure but I think she was saying something I don't like doing. Then again it could be I'm not very graceful when I fall down, and therefore not good at it. :)) I asked her-what else? "climbing a tree" what else Jacey? "drawing a man" (which surprised me a little bit cause I thought I was actually pretty good at that.)

13. What does your mom do for her job?
(J)sewing
me- what does mom do all day long?
(J) take care of us. (I'm glad she knows that IS what I do.)

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
(J) "chicken pot pies" (we had them for dinner the other night)


15. What makes you proud of your mom?
(J)"when you put on a movie."


16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
(J)Sponge bob square pants (I knew that was coming) who would you be? "patrick"
who would Lucas be? "squidward" who would daddy be? "mrs. potts" what about Taylor? "a little stinky baby"


17. What do you and your mom do together?
(J)"build a tower" what else? "watch T.V."

18. How are you and your mom the same?
(J) "we both have a red shirt" she didn't really get this one or the next one. (neither of us were wearing a red shirt)


19. How are you and your mom different? (this was after much expaining about other things that are the same and different.) What makes you, Jacey- And me, Mommy?
(J) We don't have the same names.


20. How do you know your mom loves you?
(J) "Because your the best"

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
(J) "flowers" (I'm not sure if that's him bringing me flowers or him smelling like flowers?) hahaha.

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
(J)"the zoo, and the restaurant."
(L) "to town" now all he wants to do is go to town.

Well this was a tag type thing but I won't hold anyone responsible for doing it, but feel free to copy. We had a little laugh doing this, but I bet it gets really interesting coming from 6-9 years olds. These guys were still just a little bit too little.