a conversation while swimming

friday, while floating in our new innertube, i sigh and say: "i could stay right here for a week!"

toby replies: "you can't do that!" me: "why not?" toby: "you have lots of important things to do."

me: "oh yeah? like what?" toby: "well, you have to eat breakfast, and eat lunch, and dinner,

and you have to do lots and lots of laundry. and you have to take care of miller."

5 things i glean from this exchange:

1- he knows i'm important to our family

2- he thinks meals are very important. we knew this, as he eats literally all the time

3- he understands that i do a lot of laundry. he often says how boring it is to sort his little basket of laundry, therefore, "gets" that i do boring things for our family well-being

4- he loves his baby brother enough to want me around to take good care of him

5- he recognizes that miller needs me (and hopefully, he does too!)