"I clean 'da church"

'Easter Saturday', there's a tradition at our church the youth have a pancake breakfast & car wash to raise funds for summer camps. After breakfast, many families get together to join in Spring cleaning inside & out before the dusk to dawn prayer vigil culminating in the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord.

David had choir practice @ 10:00 so while he and I were enjoying a last minute cup of coffee, Guo said he was off to play. Good idea, except... ten minutes before rehearsal we went to find him as I was going to the store for plants for church. It was necessary to know whether he was coming with me, or staying at church with his Baba. But Guo was nowhere to be found! Everyone "thought he was that way". 'That way' can usually be the opposite way because our complex probably takes up 1/2 a block, and has many wonderful :-) old knooks & crannys (sp.?)

After about 25 minutes, one of the kids Guo had been with came in red-faced and breathless from playing. When asked he said: "I think he's out 'there' ". ("by the car wash??") "well, maybe..."

Upon further investigation, I see the very top of my son's head on the sidewalk, next to the street, on the other side of the hedge... my heart skipping three beats, I rapidly walked out... when he proudly looks up, from the hedge trimmings with a rake in hand, and says:

"I clean 'da church"

And the 85+ year old man doing hedge trimming says: "And he doing a good job, too!"

They both quietly went back to their work... a great example of cross generational teaching...