Catching up on several items from the last couple of months.
Sitting around the fire (Mr. Brown has made an effort to have cookouts in Mondays this summer) and we were answering Trivial Pursuit questions that Rose Pink was asking. She asked who invented the first flying airship, and Rosebud bursts out, "Led Zeppelin!"
Here's my note to remember the afternoon that Rosebud and I spent an hour or two at the creek across the street catching fish. The fish are about an inch long and she had a very small box with a magnifying glass in the lid that she would out them in when she caught them. It was quiet and nice.
When we play word games at the table, Rose Pink brings her enormous ancient dictionary. I think it was published in 1842 and it's about four inches thick.
One night for Family Home Minute when we were tallying the score from the board game, it looked more and more like D might win. Usually Nut Brown wins, and D got more and more excited. When it was official that he'd won, he was so ecstatic that he ran up and down the hallway screaming "I'm the top banana! I'm the top banana!"
One morning, Rose Pink asked Mr. Brown what genre he would classify a particular song by Savage Garden in. He ruminated and answered her. It turned out that she and her significant other Riley had a bet on about how he would answer, and Riley won!
The other night at dinner during a pause in the conversation, D passed gas kind of loudly. Nut Brown said calmly, "Well, that was a real cheek-clapper." It cracked me up so much that I laughed for five minutes. He didn't think that his comment was that funny, and followed up with, "Sometimes a good cheek-clapper is a good knee-slapper!" He is so funny!
Another thing that I found hilarious that completely mystified Nut Brown was a video he and I were watching that was a live stream of a Minecraft player. A huge storm appeared on the horizon and the sky turned black, and people began to run away and hide. A few players continued fishing in a lake, and the streamer shouted, "Guys! Guys! The fish can wait!" For some reason that tickled me, so now I say it to the kids periodically for no good reason.
