smoaksignal

Jacob has two aquatic frogs. Originally, we thought they
were both boys. As it turns out, one is female. We figured it
out when we heard croaking from their tank and for this
particular species of frog, only the male will croak
during the courtship ritual. One weekend, the croaking was
obnoxious and before the weekend was over, Jacob's frog
tank was full of frog eggs! What an education our six year
old is getting!

But Jacob is not immune to Cupid's arrows. His school just
had a social dance for Valentines. One little girl in his class
is apparently smitten with him and she told her mom she
could not miss the dance because she had a date with Jacob!
They had to dance! I went for half of the time to see if
they would dance, but he informed me she had to leave
before they could talk or dance. I asked him if he was being
shy and if that was the reason they did not talk or dance. He
just looked at me not wanting to answer. I asked again and
he just hit me and ran off to play. I think he likes her.

Jacob memorized Psalm 23 for AWANAS and he was learning
it in the King James Version, which is full of words ending
with the "th" sound. Of course the King James version is
typically the one most people are familiar with for
this particular Psalm, but I didn't want Jacob to merely
memorize it. I wanted him to understand its meaning as
well. So, as I helped him learn it I would recite part of the
Psalm such as, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me
beside still waters..." Jacob would interrupt, "Dad, he
makETH me lie down in green pastures. He leadETH me
beside still waters." Jacob said he could remember
it better with all the th's on everything. Fine. I asked him if
he had thought about what it meant that God was his
shepherd. He said he had not. So, I asked, "If God is our
shepherd, what does that make us?" He said, "Sheep!" That's
right! I told him that sheep are not the smartest animals
and they need a lot of guidance. Jacob jokingly responded,
"Yeah, you can be such a BAAAAAAAD boy!" I don't know
where this sense of humor comes from!