I take The Elder to school Monday through Thursday Morning and being the Aspergian Dynamic Duo, we have our standard ritual in place. As we get off the Interstate onto Pellissippi parkway, the “Ramp” sign is pointed out because the arrow for the ramp resembles a “p” and is very unique. Then, after 1 minute of not talking, we come to another “Exit” sign and comment on that arrow. It look like the letter “n”. Then it stays pretty quiet until we get to the train tracks and then we go over our train track routine.
This morning we are driving along and The Elder gets excited and says, “There’s My Bus!” One of the small yellow Knox County school buses drifts behind us as we pass in the fast lane on Pellissippi. The Elder takes the a school bus of the same size and color from school back to the house. I look in the rear-view mirror and see the numbers 297 on the front plate. Hmmm, that seems familiar.
I call My Lovely and Talented Wife. “Honey, we passed by a school bus and The Elder said ‘There’s my Bus’, what’s his bus number?”
“297″
“Really, that’s the one we passed…”
Smart boy! I am astounded.
Sometimes I think we underestimate them. I know I don’t give my 2 enough credit!
if there’s one thing kids know, it’s wich bus is theirs! give them till about week 2 of school, and then don’t question it. LOL…
I just caught up with all of your running posts about the marathon. WAY TO GO TERRY! Wow…
You are awsome! I had to laugh at the part about you sqeezing the gel prematurely and getting that goo all over the place, I’ll be back looking for that photo. It made me giggle for obvious reasons, but also, this summer was the first time I’d ever had the gel during a very long hike with DH, he insisted I needed some, but I was dubious…it surely didn’t LOOK like anything I purposely wanted in my mouth. I was right and when I told DH WHY I wasn’t going to be ultra receptive to it, I did a show and tell at the same time…he almost threw up. I’ll say this though…it gave me the perk I needed to finish the hike and make it back to the car!
Stacie
Kids are more smarter then we think.