"Griffin, do you want another cup of milk?" I ask during dinner with the boys.
"Yes!" Griffin responds.
Before I can get out of my chair, Aidan jumps up and smiles at me. "I can get it for him Mom," Aidan says as he opens the fridge.
"Wow, Aidan, thank you." I reply. "Isn't that so nice of your big brother G?"
Griffin nods with his mouth full of dinner. After he swallows, he turns to Aidan and says, "You sure do fill up my bucket again and again Aidan."
The filling of people's buckets is a concept, based upon a book, that all of my boys learn in preschool. Each of us has a bucket that is filled up with love, acts of kindness or nice deeds from other people. It is one of my favorite lessons learned in preschool and I love that it always makes an imprint on the boys.
It also makes me cry. Alot.
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The boys are obsessed with Harry Potter. Aidan started reading the books over the summer and the boys have been begging to see the movies. Finally, we watched the first Harry Potter movie a few weeks ago.
During the opening scenes, one of the characters yells at Harry that there is NO such thing as magic. All three of my boys gasped and whispered (at the same time) as they shook their heads in denial, "Yes, there is!"
I love that they believe in magic. I hope they never stop.
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Before they left on their camping trip a few weeks ago, Chris told the boys to pick a few things to bring for the six hour car ride to the Canadian wilderness.
Aidan came downstairs with a book and a dictionary.
Chris laughed and told him, "Aidan, you are NOT bringing a dictionary on a camping trip!"
Aidan looked offended and responded, "But I like the dictionary. I like to look up words and read what they mean."
Chris took the dictionary away and sent him back to his room to get his DS.
I have a feeling that all these stories of our parental encouragement of video games over books, homework and dictionaries are really going to come back to haunt us someday.
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