Learning Thai

Claire and I have been having fun reading Laura Ingall's "Little House in the Big Woods" lately and Claire has enjoyed learning about butchering, guns, maple sugar, and churning butter, etc. Bring back memories, anyone? Claire has come up with some quotable quotes lately about Laura's life....

Tonight Tom told her that when he was Claire's age he didn't have a computer. Claire responded, "Just like the Little House in the Big Woods"! You lived in a woods and I don't think they had a computer either!"

In the book Laura writes about how she had never even seen two houses standing together before her first trip to town. Her first visit to town she was quite overwhelmed by the experience (trembling all over while walking up the steps to the general store). We were in the city the other night and when Claire came out of the mall she was oohing aaaahing over the city and traffic lights and saying how pretty it was. She said, "I bet Laura and Mary never saw any thing like this" (as we were walking on an overpass over 10 lanes of cars).

- Candice