Saturday, February 14, 2009

Remembering teaching Robby to drive!

Since I have this site to remember things I'll most likely forget, I have to remind myself to add stories about the boys as well as the girls. Even though the boys are older, they still manage to do some silly things I'll want to remind them of when they are raising their own one day!

So Robby has his learner permit, and Raleigh decided to let him drive the entire family into Orange Park today in our very expensive Dodge truck that is like a small Army tank! Anyway, he does a fantastic job eyeing all of the speed limit signs and has a very steady foot.

However, he is such a literal person that we have to chose our words carefully when directing him. We needed to stop at Walmart to buy a gift for the birthday party we were going to and Raleigh told him to turn at the next red light to pull in to Walmart. You could CLEARLY see the HUGE blue Walmart sign, but he continued right on past it while Raleigh and I both were yelling, "Turn here, turn here!" He drove down calmly to the next light and turned in a neighborhood to turn around. We were asking him if he heard us say to turn at the red light and he says, "yes, but that light wasn't red, it was green...the next light ahead was red." Okay, so note to self, use the term, "traffic light."

2 comments:

Florida Girl said...

Oh man--I was scrolling down and wanted to see a photo too. Robby is getting to be such a man! They grow so fast don't they!?

CMatthews said...

Such a cute story!! Hope yall are well. Liberty still talks about the girls and all of their COOL toys. Miss yall!