I may or may not have just enjoyed a brownie.

Transformers

I love my boys.

Here's why.

Tonight our power surged.  As you can imagine this causes a great deal of excitement by a 6 year old.  I open twitter on my phone a minute or two later and read that "Arcing Transformers have caused a power outage" in our subdivision.  

I decided to be a knower.

"Elijah remember when the lights went out?"  Silly question since he was still talking about it.

"Well that was caused by something caused an arcing transformer."

EYES HUGE, MOUTH DROPS OPEN.

Yes! I did it, I did it.  I impressed my son that I knew something.  (To fully appreciate this blog you should understand that he frequently tells me how I am 'not a knower' about various things.)

"MAMA, Who is Arching Transformer?"  

Being the 'not knower' I am... I didn't catch how odd this question was worded.

"That's a great question.  I'm not sure what an arching transformer is.  Let's look it up."

 

"Mama do you think the pictures of him stepping on it are already on You TUBE?"  said my little wired brained child that already understands social networks.  

Him stepping on it???  What in the world?

Then I tune into to what he is repeating over and over... ROBOTS IN DISGUISE.  

Yes, that's right.  My son is convinced that I just told him  Alien robots have just attacked our neighborhood.  

And he is elated.

Thankfully the youtube video cleared things up.

And the videos of the fiery transformers and exploding power-lines were almost as exciting as the notion of alien robots.

Almost. 

Ah, the joy of living with creative little guys.  

Searching for the Mockingbird.

When he's upset
'Mama's Gonna Buy You A Mockingbird'
ALWAYS
without fail,
calms him down.

I sing it
out of tune
soft
quite
whispered promises
of answers.

So,
this'll be like that too.
It's just about searching.
Not giving up.
'Til you find the Mockingbird.

So
Hush
Little Joe
Don't Say A Word.
Together
We're gonna find that Mockingbird.

'And if that mockingbird don't sing...'
You know the rest.
We won't give up that easily.