Lunchtime Conversation

This blog is the place where I am recording some of the little things the kids say that I want to share with them when they are older.  At lunch today, AJ announced to the table that there are only two shopping days left until Christmas.  As I was trying to figure out where he had heard that one (at school?  in an ad before a Youtube clip of Transformers?), AJ leaned over and whispered to me that we still need to get daddy a Christmas gift and he thought daddy would like a Bears hat and a Bears jersey because that is daddy's favorite team.  I whispered back "Good idea!  Let's talk more about that later.  Remember, gifts are a secret!" Not two seconds later, the boy who must drink truth serum with his morning OJ announced loudly "Daddy, I want to get you a Bears hat and a Bears jersey for Christmas because the Bears are your favorite team!  I like the Dallas Cowboys."   David promptly chimed in with "I like Batman!" and Julia, without missing a beat said "I like Elmo!" and grinned as she looked around the table, proud of her contribution to the conversation.  I groaned and said "AJ, remember how you are supposed to keep gifts a secret?!"  It was a step forward for our family, though--rather than parallel talking where one kid blurts out their thoughts and the next blurts out something unrelated, everyone's comments here were at least relatively on point.