Along the way....

enjoying our 80* temps tonight, Tony, Em and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. It was delightful... and Em, minus her daily Adderall, was quite entertaining. As we walked by the house where the family owns several bunnies that are allowed to freely amble around the lower level, Emily reminisced about being allowed the visit the "bunny house." After rambling on about them, she looked at me and very seriously asked, "Um... do those people actually LIVE in that house WITH the bunnies?" Not sure what she was thinking....

Not much further down the road she asked, "Do birds have nerves?" She seemed clearly alarmed when I said they do.... "Do trees have nerves?" LOL No... they don't have brains... I'm letting that one sink in a bit. And the rest of the rambling... I don't even know. We'll see what our next walk produces!

Makin' Plans... the teenager way

Katie, after coming home from school: L is coming over today to work on our project (that is due next week). We figured we'd just go to the park and work there because it's so nice out today.

Me: No. You can sit outside at the table on the patio and work on it there.

Katie: But why? Why can't we go to the park?

Me: Because I can't see you there.

Katie: What do you think we are going to do?

Me: .... do you really need to ask?

Lunch Date?

maybe not!

Me: Ah, Wednesday lunch is scrambled eggs and waffles.

Kt: Oh, YUM! Waffles!!

Me: That does sound good. Maybe I'll have to come have lunch with you!

Kt: Oh, um, it's not as good as it sounds. Trust me.;-)

Me: So, what time is your lunch?

Kt: Good night, mommy!

Library

Katie was just telling me that she and her friend are working on a history project together and they have planned on spending tomorrow (day off school) together working on it. I asked her if they needed to go to the library to work on it and she replied, "What's a library?" If she asks me that again, I'll sing her the song I sang to Em this morning at the bus stop... that one they used to sing weekly at the storytime we attended AT THE LIBRARY with Miss Rita...

Friends, friends, one, two, three.... all my friends are here with me!

I have more....

Sick-o

Yesterday:

Em: I could not fall asleep last night. I kept on waking up dad.

Me: I heard!

Em: Oh, when you went to bed last night, was your pillow wet?

Me: (giving suspicious bordering on evil eye)

Em: That was me.

Gross. And today... home sick. Guess I'm next!

Dinner Conversation - March 5

Over grilled ribs, baked potatoes and rolls on a very laid back Saturday evening, we talked about the epidemiology of diseases - specifically, malaria, smallpox and AIDS. We also touched on the Ebola virus, how the speed in which it kills it victims actually hinders its growth and how the inventor of the smallpox vaccine used it on one of his children first.

No, thankfully in more ways than one, not a typical dinner conversation.

Gettin' Stuff Done!

The girls were upstairs "doing homework"... and it was getting really noisy. Tony yelled up to them, "HEY, get your blankety blank homework done!" (that's a direct quote - I'm not substituting anything!) Katie yelled back, while giggling, "What did you just call my homework?"