Lunch or Dinner?

My children seem to have acquired a new confusion of late.   For some reason they’re not sure if it’s dinner or lunch when we sit down to eat.    Historically, we spent time together as a family both at lunch and dinner.   Since the summer camps and the start of the school year they both take a lunch to school and have lunch with their teachers and friends on weekdays.  

So recently we’ve served dinner and have started eating and one of the children will ask. “is it lunch or dinner?”  We let them know its dinner and ask if they remember having lunch at school—a question the consistently ignore.    They don’t seem to be overly bothered by their meal confusion in the slightest.

Are the days going too fast or too slowly for them to cause their confusion?   I can’t remember how time flowed when I was a child.

The Big Boy Update:  My son played with Legos almost the entire day today.   He showed them to Mimi when she spent time with him this afternoon and then showed them to Tristan, our sitter, when he arrived just before dinner.   You can tell he’s imagining so many things as he plays with the little characters and pieces.   Today he asked if he could go into the craft room to get something.   It turns out he wanted to get Darth Vader from the Imperial Cruiser and then add a second light saber to him so he could integrate him with the other characters he already had in play downstairs.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  I don’t usually post pictures of my children but tonight I’m going to make an exception.   This is one of my daughter’s favorite things to do: photocopying her hands on the printer.   Usually we get her hands in the picture but today she featured the sleeves of a dress Mimi got her over a year ago.   This dress has been through so many paint, marker, dirt and play cycles it’s nearly in tatters, but she loves it still and keeps selecting it to wear when it’s clean.    Artistic, no?