Typical Conversation with a 6 year old?

Sary's nursery and Ghadi's summer camp happen to be at the same location, so I drove them both every morning for one whole month f July and I can say I really had great company while driving.

We opened all kinds of conversations,
we talk often about road signs and Ghadi was helping me control speed limit spotting all the different signs on our way.

He asked me the other day:

- can we drive on the speed of 4?

- You mean 40?

- No 4

I said yes we can but that would be driving like a turtle

He gazed then asked:

- If we remove the turtle shell then it would walk much quicker?

- That makes sense

- And it could climb trees

- Ehm..we can’t be pretty sure they could

- but how do turtles speak with each others?

- They definitely have their own language, every animal has its own communication method

- But we can’t understand it

 - Aaah, but you know, long time ago, there was a king, he was a very good person obeying Allah and so he was granted the ability to understand animal languages!

He could talk with birds and listen to ants

- Did he die?

- Well sure he did, that was really long time ago

- Like 200 ago?

- No, it was before 200, maybe 1000 years ago

- In what country?

- In Palestine

- Was there many people back then?

- Yes but not as much as now

- How many people were there in Lebanon?

- Maybe 10,000

- And now?

- around 4 million!

- Waw that’s too much! But china has the highest number of people

- Yes true

- And china is the biggest country

- No, we agreed before when we looked at the map that Canada and Russia are bigger

- Yeah

- but why there are more people in China than in Russia or Canada?
- It’s because of the weather..It’s very cold and lands are mostly covered in ice all year long

- Why?

- Ah because that part of earth is far from the sun and stays cold.. just like the Antarctic

- Mom but why the Antarctic is that far? And why is it always icy?

- Ah my beloved, here we are...(dropping him at destination)...have a nice day!!!!!! 
surreal...that conversation was just surreal ...

Our Home-made Racing Track: update

I have posted many times before about our hand-made racing tracks... Ghadi adore them

and he never gets enough cars to play the different scenarios.

and my heart goes big whenever I see him creating events and new ways to enjoy it.

Theme Park, a second visit during the same week!

During our mini-vacation we decided we shall make it a real one, i.e. we were not allowed to stay at home, then we ran out of ideas, what to do?

easy...we took kids to another theme park...

not a bad idea at all... (said the kids ;)

are these real smiles>>?

Theme park!

yes, events that shall have been posted long ago are still popping.. and here is a visit we did to a nearby theme park during the month of July... 

I was surprised by Sary  who was super excited and insisted on trying everything.. 

and never showed any sign of hesitation or scare...

He proved to be as daring as his bro (even a bit more maybe) which makes my heart fly :)

Photos on the go!

Here are few Photos taken by mobile camera (hence the bad quality) but which summarize kids development and interests and relationship in a spontaneous way!

 yes,  he is playing dead... he may stay there, still for minutes...

 enjoying home-made crepes!

Ghadi is showing so much interest in everything related to cooking 

he loves to help, to stir, and surely, to taste ;)

 Sary's latest obsession (which is going to last forever i think) are motorcycles, or ATVs or anything related...

 AND wearing mom's and dad's shoes of course!

 he is playing with his brother more often now, the laugh loud and  they spend beautiful time together!

 and Sary doesn't hesitate to show his affection for his brother... this makes my heart melt and it kills me every time I see them hugging!

Summer Camp 2013!

July started in an awesome way with our mini-vacation...

as I posted before, we all had the time of our life, away from the city hectic life...

and back to reality, by the end of that week, Sary had another stomach discomfort and we dealt with it..the hard way... we had to bear all the nagging and the painful cramps...but it didn't last long...

we had one day left in our leave so Ghadi went to attend the first day in summer camp... I am so satisfied with Les Jeunes Amis Du Sport, it's well organized and Ghadi is moving to a higher category this year (ages 6-7), therefore he is having more interesting activities and much more fun!

our traditional Photo!

on the way to the movies to watch "Monsters University"!

he came back home extremely happy 

looking forward to next events there and I will be posting later about the unexpected positive personality development during this summer camp!

The first in a series of recap posts!

so it's August...

but woooosh...let's go back in time just to recap the summer 2013 and all the major events until now!

this is the first of couple posts just to revive the previous months and to ensure all is documented in this little diary of ours!

and starting by June, the end of month marked the end of school and by school we mean Kindergarten... next year Ghadi will be in Grade 1 which is a huge milestone!

Last day at school we had a little fiesta at their class, 

their art works were displayed, 

 kids offered us some class-made lemonade and treats.

 

no, nothing is wrong with his mouth, he just had a large piece of cake that he won't let go for a photo! 

  

we are very excited for the next year, hope it will be the first step in a life full of success my big boy!