Kids say the strangest things

In all of our various meetings over the last number of weeks we have had the joy of hearing some very ‘interesting’ things come out of the mouths of our kids. Thankfully none of them has been horribly embarrassing . . . . .yet. One of the weirdest so far happened in Portland at the home of our friends, the Himes. It went as follows:

Clark walks up to the front door. Usually as soon as the door opens he barges in and begins flipping switches, turning knobs and opening and closing anything in sight with reckless abandon. He is a curious little one. This time, however, Clark decided for some strange reason to begin the visit with some question and answer time. He marched right up to Mr. Himes and promptly asked “Do you have a children’s lawnmower?” To that a slightly startled Mr. Himes answered “Why, yes, yes I think I do, Clark.” This was followed by a look over at me as if to say “Why in the world did he ask for that?” They walked outside where Mr. Himes produced said children’s lawnmower, a plastic model likely from when his kids were young, about 20 years ago. Clark then proceeded to ‘mow’ the concrete sports court in the Himes' back yard.

I have no idea why he asked that particular question. I was a little amazed at the whole situation, and was further amazed that there was in fact what he had so strangely asked for. Maybe he knew something we did not.

I tried convincing him to ask for a large amount of cash at our next stop, but he was having none of that. Oh well!