Caleb's quote of the day...

Hubby says (taking about his busy sister): She has too much on her plate.
Caleb: that's cause she like's to eat!

Caleb quote...

While eating lunch at Costco, looking through coupons, Caleb sees a Cheez-it coupon and asks to buy them. To which Daddy answered "your gonna turn into a cheez-it!"
Caleb's quote: "I want to! Then I can eat myself!
7.5 years old

Some kid quotes from 2011

I'm scanning through my old facebook posts and have come across some quotes from the kids over the past year. Since this is my scrapbook, I must record some of these!
(Emma 3 and Caleb 6 for most of this year)

From Emma on St. Patrick's Day: I tell Emma "you're gonna wear all green today because it's St. Patrick's Day, to which she replied "St. Pa-twicks? Oh, Like Sponge Bob?" (Sponge Bob's friend's name is Patrick)

From Caleb around Easter time: when I got out a pair of bright yellow dress shoes that Auntie Kelly got for Emma. Caleb being so impressed with the brightness of the color says "WOW! That's like God's glory!"
(from then on they were known as "the glory shoes")

From Emma in Aug: I'm in the kitchen cleaning up from dinner and Emma asks all in one breath "Mommy, are you making dessert? Cause I'm not making dessert today, I'm making it tomorrow." (reminder: she's 3!)

Emma in the summer: Emma was told about our annual church picnic days ahead of time and everyday would wake up and ask "When are we going to 'The Picnic Church'?"

Early 2011, Emma (who LOVES salad) says to me "I want salad with racoons." took me a while to figure out she meant "I want salad with croutons."!

Early 2011, Emma says to me before bed "I don't want me hair like this" (in a ponytail) "I want it flat and scwurly" (meaning down and curly)

March 2011, Caleb heard a car pass by with music playing that was .... well... not exactly the type he's used to hearing and says "Mommy, he must not know about God."

Oct 2011, Caleb says "If God was dead, who would we sing to? Who would we worship? Who would we pray to? Who would answer our prayers?"

Walking to the park in April, Caleb says "Perfect weather, perfect smell"\

February 2011, Kids playing with the "little people" manger and I overhear Emma saying "Ok Mary, it's your turn... Ok Joe-fish, it's your turn!"

Dec 2010: Overhear Emma singing a song she made up "we love the story of God.."

Thanksgiving 2010: Starts to snow, and Caleb says "That's weird... it's not Christmas"

Oct 2010:
‎5 year old Caleb asks Auntie Kelly (who is eating a cookie): "can I have one of those?"
Auntie Kelly: "You have to ask Mommy."
Caleb to Mommy: "I'm still HUNGRY. Can I have what Auntie Kelly is having?"
Mommy: "What is she having?"
Caleb: (knowing Mommy would say "no" to a cookie before dinner): "One of those circle things."
Nice try Buddy!

Told Emma while Daddy and Caleb are at the baseball game we're gonna do girl things like go and get our nails painted, to which she replied very enthusiastically "Wow Mommy! That's a "gate" idea!"

From Sept 2011: My sweet Caleb keeps asking me "what can I do to make you feel better Mommy?" and then said "You take care of me when I'm sick, so I take care of you when you're sick. That's what you do!"

Scribe Hat...

Caleb's quote of the day:

"If God was dead then who would we sing to? Who would we worship? Who would we pray to? Who would answer our prayers?"

(age: 6 almost 7)

Eye doctor hat?

One afternoon, a couple years a ago, I noticed Caleb would occasionally mistake the color purple for blue or blue for purple. Growing up with a dad who is color blind I knew pretty quickly what this means.... MY BABY IS BLIND!
:o) Not really, but I did find out that day that Caleb is in fact colorblind. Looked up colorblind tests on the web and found some that both he and my dad ?failed? miserably.
Here's an example of one...

In this image if you see normally you will see a yellow square and a faint brown circle.
If you are colorblind you will only see a yellow square.

In this one, normal vision sees a 5
Colorblind individuals will see a 2 or extreme cases will see no number

In this one, normal vision won't find anything
Colorblind folks see... Well the website didn't say, I'll have to ask Caleb in the morn :)

The way normal folk see color

The way colorblinds see color :(
I'm not totally convinced this is how Caleb sees red, because he will identify red in some cases, though at times it does look brown. It's very interesting that some shades of color are no problem but a slight change in shade and it totally changes things.





We have come across some little hiccups in our homeschooling adventure where color is a bit of an issue. Like for example, at times his phonics book asks for him to color certain sounds in various colors to color in a picture...

On such pages I do not require neatness :)

Another subject affected by this is math. We do a curriculum called "Math U See" which uses manipulatives that are of course color coded :o/

So in this bunch there is the 7 manipulative that is a cream color, Caleb cannot see the difference between 7 and 9 -which is the mint green color. Also 5 -light blue and 6 -lilac. But this has not be as big of an issue as expected, he's just learned to look at the length not the color (which I see as kinda good anyway, since that's what maniplulatives are all about - seeing the numbers)















So these are just some examples of how life is affected by being colorblind... Nothing to inconvenient, yet...not looking forward to when he learns to drive! Just hoping he can tell the difference between stop and go lights!

Caleb quote: (reminding me after he got a color wrong) "Mom, I have colorblind." :)