My Sunshine(s)

What a day! I have spent half my day trying to figure out how to turn on and off "cookies" on my computer and the other half being chased by 2 little monsters on their bikes. My older son Danny decided to use the gasoline funnel for our lawn mower to cover his brother in soaking wet leaves and dirt. By the time I figured out what he was doing, Zachy was covered in wet leaves and his head smelled like a gas station. I had to laugh though, he did look like the tin man with it on his head. After that game, the boys decided to play monsters with some severed heads... it's halloween time and my husband is a decorating fanatic. No wonder they have been having nightmares?! Anyways, the best part of the day actually came at 10:30 pm... I had just come home from playing bunco with a neighborhood group, and found Zachy sound asleep and Dan just laying there awake waiting for me. I laid down next to him and he started singing a song to me- "you are my sunshine". I used to sing that song to the boys when they were infants to help them fall asleep. Now, five years later, out of the blue, Danny starts singing to me: "You are my sunshine, I love my sunshine, when I go walking down the sidewalk, with you by me, you are my sunshine...". Isn't is funny, we are working so hard on homework that he is just not understanding, but a song from five years ago- that I have not sang in five years- he somehow remembers, and remembers well! I will never understand how their little brains work? As I have been told, when you lack at one thing, you are terrific at another. My son Zachy is amazing, it is so hard to understand his speech most of the time, and lately he will repeat the same word four or five times, but he can put together a 500 piece puzzle and the other day he asked me if I knew what 7+8 equals... before I could answer he blurted out 15! He then continued to show me ho well he could add. He just turned four. When you lack at one thing...