cute kids

i work in an office in someone's home. while this has it's pros and cons, one of the best pros is that i get to see 3 children every day. children i love, children i have watched grow up. today the two girls were/did especially cute things. taycla is the oldest. she is a serious child. she thinks through what she says. this is not to say that she isn't fun. she definitely knows how to play, but she is also serious. she loves to ask me questions about all different aspects of my life. she always wants to know what i am eating for lunch. we talk often about my favorite color, or the color of my eyes, or the clothes i am wearing. i am often delighted by the things she thinks to ask. today i heated my lunch in the microwave and the bowl was hot. i was wearing a sweatshirt and i pulled the sleeve over my hand while i held the bottom of the bowl. taycla asked my why i had done this. i explained that the bowl was hot and i didn't want to burn my hand. then she asked if i liked my food "piping hot". what 4 year old knows that phrase? it was so cute. ethne, the middle child, brought me a snack in my office that she made herself. it consisted of plain puffed wheat, a few cornflakes, teddy grahams, some other chocolate animal cookie type thing, and some broken crackers. it was a horrible snack, but i really liked that she wanted to make it and bring it to me. she also thought to make one for wes, which was also pretty cute. i think she was disappointed that he wasn't there. later loretta, the kids mom and my friend, told me that after ethne had assembled the snack, she wanted to pour water and bubbles in the bowl. i was thankful that loretta had stopped that.