Questions and Answers

I know that I have been writing a lot about Nathan lately, but he is so wild and high-strung that it is easy to focus on his craziness. So let me talk about Alexis for a bit. She is much calmer and quieter than her little brother and she is pleased to sit quietly all day looking at her books or watching Little Bear. She sometimes gets overlooked as far as blog subject matter because she is so quiet. Have no fears, she is still cleaned and fed daily, we are not ignoring her, it is just that Nathan’s antics tend to me very bloggable.

This morning in the car while I was out running a few errands, the kids fell into their usual routine of 20 thousand questions. Nathan is in a big ‘why’ phase right now and Alexis is in her ‘how’ phase. For example he wants to know why we stopped at the red light (so we don’t have a wreck), (they both understand red=stop, green=go) and she wants to know how the light turns from red to green (electrical timers and stuff). Needless to say between the 2 of them my brain works overtime every day.

One of my minors is in biology, so the whole ‘why is the sky blue, grass green’ stuff I can do pretty easy. But Alexis gets pretty technical with some of her how questions and I try to answer them as best as I can and if I do not know an answer I always promise to look it up later. Just so you understand, look it up later really means look it up later, because that child does not forget anything. This morning I answered the following questions:

Where are the deer? (Hiding in the woods)
Why are they in the woods? (Because they are hiding from us)
Don’t they like us? (They are scared of people)
Why are they scared of people? (Because people shoot at them)
Do they think we are going to shoot them? (Yes)
Can we tell them I don’t have a gun? (We could tell them if they come out here, but they probably won’t)
Can we mail them a letter? (No, deer can’t read)
How is a deer smart enough to hide if he can’t read? …..

I really didn’t know how to answer that one, so I went with some stuff about smelling the people, and knowing that the people don’t belong there, etc.

Then Alexis said that we could just use some of that stuff (scent spray) Daddy uses to make the deer like him. Scottie is a hunter and Alexis is obsessed with it, and so she knows about all of his hunting equipment. I agreed that when she was older we could try that. She was then satisfied. In fact she told me that I “have all of her questions inside of me.’ This means that I answer all of her questions, because she still gets the difference in question and answer confused. That kid is so funny. I am dreading the day when she realizes I don’t really have all of her questions inside of me.