Thursday, December 24, 2009

Two Asia winter stories

Last night Asia was helping me to wrap Christmas presents. She was
excited to write on the gift tags. So I would tell her, "Okay, write
To Papa, From Asia and Evan on this one." Or, "Write to Evan, from
Asia on this one."

When the gifts came back to me, I noticed she wrote the names twice,
Tom Tom and Evan Evan. See the pic attached. I just thought it was
amusing.

Then I started getting tired, so I said quickly, "On this one, write
Evan, From Asia."

And she said, "You mean, TWO Evans, From Asia."

Oh!!! That's why!

The other story is that Tom and Asia had to go to church early on
Sunday for meetings and primary singing rehearsal. So they took the
train. While they hurried to catch it. Tom slipped on the ice, holding
Asia. I heard about the unfortunate experience but didn't hear details
until after the kids were in bed. When I was helping Asia with her
prayers that night, I would say a sentence and she would repeat it. I
said, "Thank you that we didn't get hurt when we slipped on the ice."
And she paused, and looked at me, and said, "Thank you that we didn't
DIE when we slipped on the ice." When I asked Tom about it later, he
told me that when they slipped it was a pretty hard fall. Tom tore his
pants and scraped up his knee and jammed his finger. He was holding
Asia and dropped her so that her glasses flew off and she banged her
head on the ground, so she was crying but luckily okay. I had no idea
it was that bad and only understood Asia's prayer at that point!

2 comments:

Benny#10 said...

Well I think we all agree with Asia on the not dieing part. I went outside with Beck today and as I showed him the neighbors car engine they were fixing, he became bored and moved away which made me very glad when I heard a familiar string of oaths emanating from beneath the vehicle I guess its like mules and goats you just have to speak in a language they understand.
I have been trying to never swear around Beck and I felt I had reaced a milestone the other day when he became frustrated and said oh fiddlesticks!

Maren said...

Ha ha another great part of the present story is that she wrote "Tom" instead of Dad. Those were both awesome thanks for sharing them.