29 November 2021

Benefits of being the youngest in the family.

25 November 2021

Happy Thanksgiving!  It was just us this year, which was lovely, and Rose Pink made six kinds of pie for us to eat at 'Pie Overdrive' which is what Mr. Brown called the dessert section of dinner.  Yum.

23 November 2021

At the park, swinging on a squeaky swing, Bobo says to me, "I think there's an elephant hiding in this swing."  I reply, "I hear it!"  He added, "It has seventy different vocalizations."

Cleaned out Rosebud's toy shelves this weekend and discovered that she was keeping her travel snacks from our last trip up to Dallas in her bedroom on a shelf.  And she hadn't eaten them all yet!

16 November 2021

Bobo wiped out on his bike on Saturday morning coming back from the donut shop and broke his leg.  We didn't realize that it was broken for two days because it didn't look any different from his other leg so we thought it was just a strain of some sort.  When it didn't get better, we took him to the doctor and sure enough, it was broken!  He has a big green cast and crutches now and is learning to get around.  He's been enjoying the perks of getting to watch a lot of tv and play a lot of video games and read a lot of books while laying on the couch resting.  But today he was a little mopey about not being able to go outside in our beautiful November weather to jump on the trampoline.

Rose Pink took this picture of Rosebud in our backyard.  Rosebud came home from school the other day and told us that her class had an impromptu hair-cutting party that day!  Her teacher was out that day and during an activity where they were using scissors for a craft, someone had a bright idea that spread like wildfire and the sub completely lost control of the class.  More than half the kids went home with less hair than they had that morning.  Rosebud didn't get her hair cut (some of the haircuts were involuntary) and she didn't cut anybody else's, but she told me that she started to collect her friends' hair since they didn't need it any more after they cut it off.  The sub had to call the principal to get order restored.  The image of a bunch of kindergarteners cutting each others' hair and ignoring the teacher's pleas for order crack me up.  I spent a lot of time laughing about it, which completely mystified Rosebud.  She kept telling me that it was VERY SERIOUS - which of course it is and I'm sure that was the message she got from the adults at the school.  And then she added in a sad, thoughtful voice, "And they took all our scissors!" and I'm just exploding with laughter again.