I had cute conversations with the boys tonite as I put them to bed. Finn and I talked about his friend Taylor who came to play today...he nodded his head emphatically when asked if he had fun with her.They played with play-doh and climbed in and out of the little rocket ship hamper thing that we have in the front room and fought a wee bit over some toys. As per their age! He also said yes he liked the movie Peter Pan which they watched a little of before their bath. We talked about Tinker Bell and I imitated the pirate who says "walk the plank matey!" (or whatever!) and Finn thought that was quite funny so we said it again a few more times. Finn was tired and went down w/ a few little squeals but then it got quiet pretty quick.

Aiden and I had a scintillating conversation tonite about "way back, like in 1946" (his words, not mine-I know that wasn't that long ago!) when I explained to him that not all houses had modern plumbing the way we do. And that means they couldn't just go flush the toilet any time they wanted to! They had to go out of their house into the backyard and use an outhouse. Then I explained what an outhouse was. His eyes were big and wide at this point...haha...I had his complete attention! When it was cold and raining or snowing and freezing cold they had to go out there to go potty! We also talked about well water and how ppl. didn't get their water from a faucet in the sink but from down deep in the ground and they had to pump it up from the ground and they used buckets to bring it into the house. And when it was bath nite...like maybe once a week! or every other week... they would fill a big basin full of water and then they would all take turns in the basin-the whole family!- without changing out the bathwater! 

This whole conversation at bedtime when he is usually trying to manage a few more cheetah flips in bed had him wholly engaged with me. He wanted to know more and I wished I had a pioneer book with me so I could read it to him. I used to love Little House on the Prairie and maybe he and I can read that together when he gets a little older. But the conversation was good.

I said "are we SO lucky that we can get water from the faucet and take a nice shower or bath anytime we want to?" 

He said " yeah, but really good that we can flush the poop down!"