God and Indiana Jones

As I was making my tea this morning, Ethan was chattering away. He was explaining to me that the movies 'Indiana Jones' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' were analogous in how they handled violence and humor. Not in exactly those words, but I was struck, as I often am with Ethan, at how good he is with analogies.

Ethan also thinks a lot about things. Lately he has been declaring that he doesn't believe in God. We don't argue it either way with him -- we feel it's important for him to come to his own conclusions. We point out that most people believe that God created life.

Today Ethan explained that God couldn't have created people because obviously cave men came before God. His evidence: God wears robes, and cave men lived before robes were invented, so God had to come after cave men. You have to admire the logic! And also his astute observation that God usually is depicted wearing robes that were invented after cave men.

Ethan also pointed out that Joseph was Jesus's step dad.

Summer Rain

It's been a busy summer. Ethan went to the town's summer camp most of the time, and we went up to NH last weekend with a bunch of other families. As usual, Ethan is much happier during the summer. We've gone swimming at the pond, had lots of ice cream, and enjoyed the sunny weather. The last couple of days it's finally been raining, and I've taken Ethan to go swimming at the indoor pool where he could blow off some steam and show off all he's learned in the swim lessons at camp.

Next week Ethan will get round one of his braces installed by the orthodontist. The week after that he starts third (!) grade. The time is just whizzing by.