Kid Cuteness April 29th, 2015
Me to Zo, who is sitting in the hallway with her back turned. "Zo, sweetie, what are you doing?"
Zo: "I put myself in time out."
"Why?"
"I pulled the tablecloth off the table."
Luke at breakfast: "Mommy, I need stuck juice."
Me: "What are you talking about? I don't understand."
Luke: "Like Papa has in the freezer." (Papa puts juice in cups and freezes it to eat like a popsicle.)
Me: "Oh, yeah, I get it."
(I read somewhere recently that every kid is a poet and this comment kind of epitomizes that for me. The kids see/explain their world in such a unique way.)
Luke: "Do I need a map to get to Heaven?"
Me: "No. You know, people think different things, but I think your Uncle Luke will come and show you the way when it's time to go to Heaven. When you're very old, though, Buddy. Not for a while, OK?"
Luke: "Do dogs go to dog Heaven? And pigs go to pig Heaven?"
Luke and Zo, about their new barn and farm animals (the cow is named Scotty, by the way): "Our animals are eating cereal and green beans!"
Zo, lauching and running as the Roomba is turned on: "It's the Roomba! Run for your lives!"
Me, making cookies with the kids: "Luke you have to give me a lick of your beater before you can have it."
Luke: "No!" (Plus a temper tantrum.)
Me: "OK, it's let Mommy have a lick or no beater."
Luke: "No beater!"
Uncle Ben came to visit last weekend and stayed in his camper with 2 friends. We went (with permission) to wake him up in the morning.
"You know there's a beast in the back," Ben said to them (about one of his sleeping friends."
"We want to see the BEAST!!! Both the kids said, no fear at all.
And they peeked carefully into the back and saw it was Ben's friend. "That's not a beast!," they said laughing.
Love how brave they are...
Zo has been picking and bringing me flowers at every opportunity.
Luke wants to snuggle at every opportunity, especially at night and in the morning in his bed.
Luke found a quarter out and about the other day. Papa let him put it in the slot machine and he won 5 quarters. He's been carrying them around with him ever since. "Grammy, what's a quarter for?" he asked. Interesting to see a time when money holds no sway...
Luke, frantic, after Papa waled out the door yesterday evening to play poker: "Wait, Papa can't go yet, I haven't blown on his hand for good luck!" So we went outside and caught him before we left...
XOXO
"What Does That Smell Like?"
"Mommy, what does that smell like?" Sis asks about things over and over these days. It's nice because it's really made me pay attention to some of the beauty that is spring at my parents, including:
- Lilacs (which I remember so clearly from when I was the kid's age in Evergreen)
- Freshly rototilled dirt
- Chocolate chip cookies that the kids and I baked up
- Rain
- Roast chicken
- Laundry fresh off the line
- Piney smell of the hiking trails
- Cut grass at Fireman Park
Rototilling
Love that Papa let's the kids "help" with stuff like this...it doesn't make the task at hand any easier, but oh, how they love it...
River Trail, Early Spring
Breakfast at Freshies (love!), followed by cold, snow, rocks thrown into the river, daffodils, worms and slugs on the sidewalk (which Sis would touch but Bubs wouldn't), etc... Great morning with Daddy...
Steamboat: Mud Season
Went up to visit Daddy this past weekend and Steamboat's a ghost town once ski season is over. Last weekend there were hundreds of people on this walkway at the base, late Friday just us. Fun and cool to stay in Daddy's hotel and be practically the only people there...
XO
Bunny Trail
Sunny and warm this afternoon, kids and I on a hike on the Monument, empty plastic apple juice container for Luke, empty oatmeal box for Zo, coins and rocks making noise with shaking. Whistles around their necks. What great little hikers they're getting to be, hiking itself interspersed with the drawing rainbows in the dirt and adding new rocks to their noisemakers and Luke put a rock in his pocket for Grammy and on the way back a brown baby bunny darting across the path and then standing stock-still in the bushes, letting us get a good look. We saw a second bunny on the trail and then two more driving back to Grammy and Papa's for dinner.
"That's the Bunny Trail," said Luke. (And I'm sure that's how it will be referred to forever after.)
"Today's a bunny day!" said Zo.
XOXO
PS. Luke had some jelly beans he shared with Sis after dinner (he'd saved them from Easter...have you ever met another boy who wants to save his desserts?) Afterwards in the bath he said, "Jelly beans are my favorite kind of bean!"
PPS. Zo tonight, giving me a kiss (she's been giving the sweetest kisses lately): "Take that kiss and keep it with you, Mommy."
