Monday, September 10, 2012

Back at home

We're back to doing regular old stuff: swimming lessons, getting a jump start for the SUV from Grandma Rainey since I left the key turned on for a week, fixing bikes. Ikey's singing medley during naptime is: Firework (Katy Perry), Celebrate the World (Lorax soundtrack), That's Amore...

This one is gross: Ikey: Why do my poops sometimes look like a deer's?
Mom: Because maybe you eat the same thing as a deer?
Ikey: No, reindeer eat carrots. I try not to eat too many carrots.

Ikey: Can I have some of that cake with white frosting?
Mom: No, it's gone.
Ikey: Where did all of that go?
Mom: I ate it.
Ikey: It's not healthy to eat that much cake.
(I didn't really eat it. I threw half of it away because it's not healthy to eat that much cake.)

When I told the kids that we were staying in a teepee, Ikey predicted that it would be decorated with trains and Jovie thought it would have ballerinas. They had a little argument about it. A few days later while I was folding laundry, Jovie said: Are you packing my clothes for camping? Let's go camping in a tent or teepee. I know! A teepee with trains with ballerina engineers. The engineers could have regular shirts and ballerina skirts!

Jovie squirted Todd with a water bottle. She said, "I'm just making a water feature."

Ikey said, "Let's watch this Thomas (the train) movie."
I said, "How about if you do something else with your brain?"
Ikey said, "No. I am not going to change my brain. I am going to think about watching this movie the whole time."

For two days, Ikey has been tearing around the house with Jovie's plastic toy stroller. He told me that he's "pushing my baby dragons in a motor stroller."

Todd left a message on my phone: I tried to fix the blower, so we need a new blower.