I just love the mind of a five year old. Colson is such a deep thinker and the questions he comes up with are amazing. When we drive to school in the morning he is full of chatter. For instance, "Mom what day is it supposed to snow?" I said, "today" and he said, "no, mom, what day, like you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday." Then I realized he is learning the days of the week and making a connection with the day we are on. Its such fun conversing with him. We moved on from that to Christmas. He asked if Brad and Amanda were coming home, and I said, "no" and he said, "oh yeah thats right Brad is fighting in the Army for us." Then he said, "actually he is saving lives, and mom, did you know that in his bag he has a special tool that will bring people back to life if they die?" I am thinking that he is big on BEN10 and all his super powers so he must think Brad is a super-hero! We move on to another conversation, mind you we live only 5 minutes from his school, when he asks, "is North Dakota, where Daniel lives, in the United States?" I answer, "yes" and then he says, "is Oklahoma where Brad and Amanda live in the United States too?" I answer yes again and go on to explain that there are 50 states in the United States and Michigan is one of too! He says, "ok" just wondered. We pull into the drive at school and I am getting ready to put the car in park to drop him off (today is a drop-off day not a walk-in day, he chooses if he wants us to drop him off at the door and drive away or park and walk in with him) I stop the car and he says, "I love you mom" (which just melts my heart) and a big kiss; I say, "I love you too, son, and have a great morning." He walks away, then stops, I am waiting until he goes through the school doors before I pull away, and he turns around and gives me a huge wave and smile! I miss that kid! I can't even begin to tell you how much he blesses my heart every single day! From the way he gives you a great hug, to the way he so carefully plays with his little sister. Conferences are tomorrow and I am worried, a little, of what his teacher will say. She is young, very organized and regimented and its obvious from the way everything runs in her classroom there isn't much room for imagination and 5 year old chatter. I hope I can listen with an objective hear and not a mom's heart to what she has to say. His report card was great, and we are finding out he has some fine-motor skill trouble so we are working on that issue with him, but overall he did pretty well for his first 9 weeks.

There are lots of little "Colsonisms" that I have rolling around in my brain, and if I get some time, which is a real issue, I am going to type them up and save them in a file!

God sure blessed us by giving us that special boy. . . . . . .