Me: Hunter, do you want milk or juice with your lunch?
Hunter: Juice
Me: What kind? (because I had to make it anyway, so it really didn't matter what he picked)
Hunter: Wine
Me: *pause* Excuse me?
Hunter: I want wine momma
Me: Hunter, where did you learn about wine?
Hunter: at preschool
Me: What did they tell you about it?
Hunter: That that was the first miracle Jesus performed. He turned 6 jugs of water into wine.
Me: Very interesting Hunter. Unfortunately you have to be Aunt Sissy's age before you can drink wine.
Hunter: They gave it to me at school today though!
Me: Uh...maybe it was grape juice?!
Hunter: oh yeah, they did say that.
Wow! Let me preface this by saying that we never have alcohol in our home, so I was VERY taken aback when he said he wanted wine! I also briefly had the inkling to call the lady who runs his preschool and complain about them exposing my 5 year old to the concept of wine. But...I gathered my thoughts real quickly and decided that was not the route to take. I have been nothing but thrilled with this school so far and know that they did not really "teach" him about wine as we know it today.
Lincoln later gave Hunter (and me) a history lesson about why Jesus did that. Lincoln explained to Hunter that back in those days and in that area the water wasn't very safe to drink (like Ethiopia), so Jesus turned the water into something safer to drink.
I just never expected to hear "I want wine" out of MY 5 year old's mouth!!! Wow.
5 comments:
We live in St. James. He's not be exposed to the concept of wine???? ;o)
HA- that's classic. And what an awesome explanation- way to go Dad! :-)
It's amazing the things they say sometimes...
I almost forgot he asked me for wine the other night too!!! Ha
Priceless, as a Christian preschool teacher I always referred to the wine in that story as new wine and explained that new wine was like grape juice and then told them the same thing Lincoln told you guys.
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