My little Data

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The Sita was Ladybug Girl for Halloween.

But maybe she should've been Data from Star Trek instead.

Or another Dr. Noonien Soong android of the same generation. Because whenever she encounters a contraction while reading, she reads what it would say uncontracted. She is very cute and adorable when she reads it that way, but I wonder if she needs an upgrade in her programming so that it won't be obvious that we've got a little glitch in her positronic matrix.
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Autumn is here!

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If only I could've found the colored construction paper! I love living in a place that has beautiful leaves all over!
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Because I have adorable children and you haven't seen them in a while

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Boo is most happy when she has hair to pull. She is learning the word "Gently!"


The Sita likes to eat Trix. But we like to count them first.


The Dude is the Listening Star in his Kindergarten class for the day. From his perspective, this is The Most Important Thing to achieve at school.
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You may imagine what I felt and how I acted...

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...when I came back to the lunch table after feeding Boo.



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Overheard at the lunch table

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How did the bee cross the water?
By getting eaten by a shark!

Why did the bee hit the car?
Because it wanted to get stung!

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because it wanted to eat the watermelon!

Why did the car go into the cookie?
Because he wanted to see the eyeball!

Each of these was greeted with uproarious laughter. Because they're all that funny.
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the Dude's recipe for Vanilla Cream

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(as dictated, verbatim)

On a hot sunny afternoon or morning, if you want to make this recipe you need vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients
vanilla ice cream

Directions:
In a small bowl put one scoop of vanilla ice cream in the bowl and then wait a couple minutes. Probably one minute.

Mash well on the side of the glass bowl. Then stir well. Then if you don't want to drink it yet put it in a bag in the freezer.

And when you want to, you can drink it. But it has to be in a day of the week you made it. Otherwise, it will go bad.
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A Tale of Two Ties

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The week before Father's Day all the children in our Primary decorated ties for their Daddies to wear on Father's Day. The Dude very happily decorated this tie:



Personally, I think it is a very fun (and nicely designed!) tie but the Spozo did not. Luckily, the Dude was not there when his father first saw the tie in which he said, "Yuck. I'm not wearing that. Ever." And then went on a rant about how its not fair that Dads have to put up with nasty tacky junk for Father's Day. (The Spozo wishes to insert here that he never rants.)

But because the Dude has a memory, and he knew his Daddy was supposed to wear a tie decorated by him to church the next Sunday, it was imperative that we have a tie the Spozo was willing to wear. So the Spozo sacrificed one of his very own ties for us to decorate with a little more art direction. The Dude felt that sparkles were the most important feature to a cool Daddy tie, so we went sparkle shopping and the Dude had lots of fun besparkling the tie. Behold:



The Spozo groaningly put on the tie early Sunday morning before leaving for his meetings (I had let it be known that if he "forgot" the tie it would be brought to him). He complained about the sparkles getting all over his suit. He rolled his eyes. BUT by the end of the day, he declared that this was now his Father's Day Tie Forever (and it wasn't just for the benefit of the Dude's ears).
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