It’s been a while since I talked about my little Sunday School class of 5-year-olds but today was particularly amusing for some reason. I really do love those kids, even if they pushed me to my limit the first few months of the year. I’ve really grown attached to them and love the little interactions we get to have.
Today, I received a couple gifts from women at church who were unable to come to my baby shower, which was really sweet of them. As I was sitting with the kids, a couple of the girls were talking after looking through my gift bags about how there’s a baby in my belly that’s going to be born soon. Several of the boys overheard this conversation and stared curiously at my huge baby belly. Finally, after a long pause, one of them says pensively, “So that’s why your stomach has gotten so big,” as if he’d been trying to figure it out all along and was relieved to finally have an explanation. At least he’s been taught not to ask why a woman’s stomach is getting bigger, a lesson many adults could learn from!
Later on, some of the other leaders were talking to the kids about smiling faces and how smiling at people makes them happy. One kid in my class who was sitting next to me looks over at me with a facial expression that seemed totally unimpressed. He drew an imaginary circle around his face with his finger, and said, “You see this? This is my ‘whatever’ face.” This must be a thing of his lately because he did something similar earlier in the week when I was out with his mom at lunch. It just cracked me up, although I pretended to take him very seriously which he seemed to appreciate.
Another favorite moment was when we were discussing not using bad language and a boy in my class announced, “‘Sex’ is a bad word!” Oh boy, where do you go from there? Another boy, when we were discussing avoiding bad movies or images decided to inform our class that he saw a movie where a girl’s boobs were hanging out of her dress, although he didn’t actually use the word ‘boobs’ but instead made circular motions with his hands against his chest as if there were boobs there. It was pretty amusing but made for some abrupt subject changes.
There were a lot of other little things they said today that were so funny, but those were my favorites. Some weeks are definitely more entertaining than others, and today was one of them. It’s just so hard not to laugh in the moment.
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Reminds me of a joke my grandmother told me: A mother was trying to get her little girl to stop sucking her thumb, so she told her if she continued to do it she would grow enormously fat. Later that day, they were standing at a bus stop and a very pregnant lady came to the stop and stood next to them. The little girl looked up at the mother-to-be, wagged her finger in shame and said “I know what YOU’VE been doing.”
Would one of those boys go by the name of Isaac? Hahaha… I couldn’t stop laughing at this post.
@Dixie: The first two stories might be about a boy who goes by the name of Isaac. But you’d be so proud of this one. In class, Jessica asked something like, “What do you think this prophet was like that made him so amazing?” and Isaac raises his hand and says, “He probably believed in God a lot more than other people.” It was very cute. Then Jessica goes, “That’s a great answer! Did everyone hear what Isaac just said?” and Isaac was like, all casually with a little shrug, “I can repeat it if you want.” Haha! He’s so funny.