Driving to the beach this week I noticed the air in the distance:
Me: Look how the mountains keep the smog out.
Boo: What’s smog.
Me: Dirty air.
Boo: I don’t like dirty air.
Me: Me either.
1 minute later:
Boo: I just don’t think there should be dirty air.
2 minutes later:
Boo: Dirty air is REALLY bad, right?
3 minutes later:
Boo: How does all the dirt get in that air? I hope the air isn’t dirty at the beach.
4 minutes later:
Me: Okay, what do you want from McDonald’s?
Boo: I don’t want to go to McDonald’s! The air’s too dirty here!
5 minutes later (at McDonald’s):
Boo: Don’t roll down the windows! Dirty air!
I’m glossing over how many times “dirty air” was actually said during the time span of about 20 minutes. Mr. LBB and I kept looking at each other like: WTF! When we got to McDonald’s, Boo held her breath when the window was opened. I opened my car door to help her adjust her seat and in a moment of terror she took a huge gasp of air before I could open her door.
I wish I’d never pointed out the “dirty air.”
Then it got really depressing:
I notice a lot of stuff while we are on trips….and the windmills in Palm Springs never get old:
There’s something that makes me uneasy about huge windmills. They look so lonely…..and they remind me of the AT-ATs* from Star Wars.
*All Terrain Armored Transports
Ashley,
Funny story. Boo keeps your entertained. : )
Vanessa
I love your stories! Can’t wait till Gavin starts talking so I will have funny stories to tell.
That was pretty funny. I grew up in LA but now live in the Bay Area where you can’t see the air. We do go and visit my parents and I am just waiting for my four year old to ask my about the air.
They remind me of that movie Contact with Jodie Foster back in the late 90’s. Creepy
my 4 year old son would have said THE EXACT SAME THING! and he would have kept on going!! i love the minds of young ones. sometimes when parenting seems impossibly challenging, its so nice to have these funny moments 🙂
I pointed out “pollution” to my kiddos on a trip once and now every time they see a factory and the rolling “smoke” they yell POLLUTION, GO FASTER! I get lots of looks from the hubby for helping to enlighten the children! 🙂 Oh, and it’s always followed by the same game of 20 questions.
THOSE WINDMILLS FREAK ME OUT!! Every time I go out there I have nightmares! (Big earthquake hits they start to topple over while still spinning. Then they start to domino toward the road – still spinning.)
Those wind mills are the place i feel closest to my father. when I found out he died, I rushed into the car and drove out to LAX for a flight to Israel. Patrick drove me and as we went through those windmills I sobbed, thinking about my father. And now, whenever I see them (in person or otherwise) he is all I think about, and now I feel comforted by them….like he’s moving them and showing me he’s well. 🙂
Thank you for sharing that, Shari. That is so sweet. You’re dad will be with you always until you’re together again. 🙂
Oops, your not you’re. Doh!
Just today I was telling my son that we should recycle everything we can because if we don’t anything we throw away just gets buried in dirt to hurt the Earth. He threw up his arms and stated we need to get rid of the garbage can and never throw anything away again. We should learn from our children 🙂 Dirty air IS bad for us! Way to go Boo!
I did’t really noticed how bad the air was in San Bernardino (here thinking we had moved far away from it) until I moved away from CA completely. Every time I fly back I can see the horrid fog just sitting there above it all. I miss a lot about So Ca, but smog is definitely not one of them.
On a side note every time we would drive to El Centro to visit family we would pass by those large windmills. When I was you get I would think of them as huge giants getting ready to take over Palm Springs. 🙂
You know what “AT-AT” stands for! *mind blown* haaaa!!!!
She is so smart that little one of yours.
I love that you know not only what an AT-AT is but what AT-AT means!!
If we want cleaner air then we need to demand it from our lawmakers. We can also help get clean air by planting more tree’s. If we plant citrus and nut tree’s then we are getting clean air and fresh food for us and our friends and neighbors.
We had a “I’m not sad, are you sad, I’m not sad” convo with my niece like that and now that shes in her 20’s we laugh our a$$’s off about it! It involved divorce and her and her sister one year older trying to figure it all out!
Can I just say how glad I am to hear ANYONE else say those windmills make you feel uneasy? We have them all over the midwest & every time I see them I have to look the other way… they are terribly creepy, especially at night when they pop up out of nowhere. I always feel like they belong on another planet & that they are just very menacing… my hubs and I had to pull over next to a bunch of them once on a roadtrip so we could switch drivers when he wasn’t feeling good. That. Was. Awkward. I’ve never moved so fast in my life!
Oh, and the dirty air thing… so my kiddo! 5 year old girls are so weird and wonderful, no? 🙂
Ps… your hair is looking adorable! Growing in so fast & nice! Xoxo
I would like to add that I’m thrilled to see the dinosaurs from Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure show up in my feed today. I had no idea where those things lived! Glad to see that they’re out there somewhere making sweet children long for the jurassic. 🙂
Boo’s been on a sad streak lately huh? It’s prolly good not to breathe the smog ;). Wind mills do seem lonely!
Aww! Boo is so adorable!