Greetings All,
Isaac had pneumonia this week. He started on antibiotics on Wednesday, and though he’s definitely not fully himself again yet, he’s improving.
Laurelin has turned out to be quite a little puzzle enthusiast. I received a couple of puzzles for Christmas, (yeah I know it took me while to get to them..) and she’s helped me put together both of them. These were normal “adult” puzzles of several hundred pieces, but she probably did at least one third of each puzzle all by herself. It’s really fun that the kids are getting old enough to do things like that together, and actually truly do them together instead of letting them just play with my puzzle pieces so they could feel like they were doing the puzzle.
She also lost her first tooth! The tooth fairy apparently had a little trouble finding our new house as she was a no show the first TWO nights, but that morning Rus helped Laurelin light a candle to tell the tooth fairy were we lived now and when she went into her room there were four quarters (I guess the tooth fairy pays late fees…) and a note apologizing for being late. Laurelin was quite satisfied.
We bought a new character for our little marine fish tank. He’s a bicolor blenny (I’m sure Rus will fill you in on him a bit more). We’ve decided to call him Roger the Shrubber, and he has quite a personality. Gwen of course is quite taken with him, and everytime he pokes out from his favorite rock she squeals with delight, “Roger the Shrubber is playing peek-a-boo with me!” For those of you who have ever seen Dave the Barbarian, Gwen did a funny impersonation of The Dark Lord, Chuckles the Silly Piggy the other day. Chuckles often disguises himself and Dave and crew eventually figure out that it’s him. So Gwen, doing as Chuckles did one time when he had been discovered, grabbed a pair of fairy wings (in lieu of Chuckle’s hat) that were laying on the floor, put them on and then off her head and said, “See? Hat, no hat-it’s not that tricky!”
At bedtime a couple of nights ago, Xander peered down at me from atop his bunkbed. In his characteristic crescendo, he asked, “Babbo…if we were playing hockey, and the puck suddenly turned into a bowling ball, and the hockey sticks transformed into live snakes, what would happen? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?!?!” Where does he get this stuff? It’s like he has a little vortex of hypothetical occurrences somewhere in his head, inexorably pulling every little bit of reality in, subsequently extruding them in unpredictable combinations every few seconds.
Within an hour or two of polishing the outside of Hiro’s tank, I noticed the very conspicuous imprints of kid lips marring my recent efforts. I questioned the kids. Xander confessed, and when asked my he had done so, he replied that he was “trying to get Hiro the eat my teeth.” Oh, ok. If that's all it was...
Isaac had pneumonia this week. He started on antibiotics on Wednesday, and though he’s definitely not fully himself again yet, he’s improving.
Laurelin has turned out to be quite a little puzzle enthusiast. I received a couple of puzzles for Christmas, (yeah I know it took me while to get to them..) and she’s helped me put together both of them. These were normal “adult” puzzles of several hundred pieces, but she probably did at least one third of each puzzle all by herself. It’s really fun that the kids are getting old enough to do things like that together, and actually truly do them together instead of letting them just play with my puzzle pieces so they could feel like they were doing the puzzle.
She also lost her first tooth! The tooth fairy apparently had a little trouble finding our new house as she was a no show the first TWO nights, but that morning Rus helped Laurelin light a candle to tell the tooth fairy were we lived now and when she went into her room there were four quarters (I guess the tooth fairy pays late fees…) and a note apologizing for being late. Laurelin was quite satisfied.
We bought a new character for our little marine fish tank. He’s a bicolor blenny (I’m sure Rus will fill you in on him a bit more). We’ve decided to call him Roger the Shrubber, and he has quite a personality. Gwen of course is quite taken with him, and everytime he pokes out from his favorite rock she squeals with delight, “Roger the Shrubber is playing peek-a-boo with me!” For those of you who have ever seen Dave the Barbarian, Gwen did a funny impersonation of The Dark Lord, Chuckles the Silly Piggy the other day. Chuckles often disguises himself and Dave and crew eventually figure out that it’s him. So Gwen, doing as Chuckles did one time when he had been discovered, grabbed a pair of fairy wings (in lieu of Chuckle’s hat) that were laying on the floor, put them on and then off her head and said, “See? Hat, no hat-it’s not that tricky!”
At bedtime a couple of nights ago, Xander peered down at me from atop his bunkbed. In his characteristic crescendo, he asked, “Babbo…if we were playing hockey, and the puck suddenly turned into a bowling ball, and the hockey sticks transformed into live snakes, what would happen? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?!?!” Where does he get this stuff? It’s like he has a little vortex of hypothetical occurrences somewhere in his head, inexorably pulling every little bit of reality in, subsequently extruding them in unpredictable combinations every few seconds.
Within an hour or two of polishing the outside of Hiro’s tank, I noticed the very conspicuous imprints of kid lips marring my recent efforts. I questioned the kids. Xander confessed, and when asked my he had done so, he replied that he was “trying to get Hiro the eat my teeth.” Oh, ok. If that's all it was...
Incidentally, Roger the Shrubber is named for a character from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." He was a shrubber, by the name of Roger.
Roger the Shrubber and some Green Star Polyp coral.Roger in action
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The tooth fairy had trouble finding our house too! We must be confusing her with all these moves.
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