What's His Name Again?

At church last week, we were sitting listening to a very colorful speaker. The man giving a talk repeated over and over again, "My idiot brother," which raised serious eyebrows from our three kids, since "idiot" is a word banned from use in our house. After the third or fourth time the speaker said it, our seven year old, T, turned to me and said, "Maybe his brother's name is Idiot."

Card Shark

T and I (J) love to play the game Dominion, as most of you saw back in August. A few nights ago, we were playing and, since A is working on sitting up with minimal support and is grabbing things with a vengeance, we thought she should try her hand at cards.

Hey, you gotta start 'em out young.

Needless to say, she won.

Living the Fairy Tale

From our sister-in-law:

After watching the opening "Tangled" song B (4) says to me: "I wish I had lots of chores."

Ummm... can I get that in writing?

myPod

From my sister:

Conversation from tonight after getting home from the store:

G (4): "When E turns 12, her's going to get an ePod, right?"  

Dad: "An ePod?  What does that do?"

G:  It's like a phone and it plays music and stuff.

This conversation begs a question though:  If E gets an ePod, G most definitely will need a gPod and then B will be wanting a bPod......and that could get a little pricey, right?  :-)

Mixing It Up

From our sister-in-law:

Comedy of errors today. I was leading Singing Time at the toddler music co-op. W (2) exploded all over his pants in the car on the way over so he comes w/ just a diaper. He wanted nothing to do with sitting nicely while I led the songs so I tried to do everything one handed while pinning him to my side with the other. At one point he broke free and started running laps around the inside of the circle...and then his diaper fell off. B (4) is chasing after him yelling that he's naked and I'm still supposed to be singing (I'm not...I'm laughing so hard I can't do much else).

Here's hoping next week is more singing...less streaking.