Dream a little dream

Tweety

Comic Conversations

Bernadette to Isaiah: "Batman, wanna have a tea party with us? ... and we're having dessert, too."

Matt: Little miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a (pause to let Kateri finish the line) ...
Kateri: Spiderman

Isaiah's super hero fascination is rubbing off.



Accomplishment of the day: getting all 10 of a 2-year-old's fingers into the correct part of her gloves.

Excessive cuteness

What is Kateri doing up there?

Ahhh!

Rock on

Dancing around the living room last night, Kateri announced, "Dis my favowite song, Mama!  Dis my favowite song!" The title: "We Built This City on Rock n' Roll."

Sledding

Jokes

Isaiah and Bernadette are fascinated by jokes right now. If you know a good one, tell them next time. They may not get it, but they'll laugh, or fake laugh. Among the setups with which they're familiar: knock-knock and cross the road.

One day Bernadette was feeding Isaiah lines when Isaiah unknowingly hit a good punchline: B: Why did the water cross the road? I: To get drunk.

Notes

Adult, name redacted, to child, name redacted preparing for bed: "I said pick up the pirate puppet and you ran away screaming."

Bernadette clocks Isaiah with her small cloth bag and he starts crying. Overblown, right? Then I found the chunk of sculpted marble in the offending purse. Ouch.

You wonder why they sell so many sizes of hammers and then you're on a ladder hitting a nail and you think, "I could really use a smaller hammer here."

Isaiah:"Let's pretend we're boxes of Legos on a train."

Digging potatoes is a treasure hunt.

Quotes

Bernadette: "Aunt Marty says there are people on the living room ceiling, and you can see them better when you're sick."  (We're pretty sure this means Aunt Marty remembers lying sick in the living room and finding faces in the knots on the wood ceiling.  But we'll have to ask her.)


I handed Isaiah his math worksheet.  "I think I have to go to the bathroom," he said.

"You think you have to go to the bathroom?"

"Well, I can't be quite sure."

I handed him his pencil.  "Yes, I definitely have to go to the bathroom."  And he was off.


At library story time, the librarian held up a picture book called Pete the Cat.  "This is a story about Pete the Cat," she said.  "And he loves his shoes."

"Well, Pete Not the Cat," called out Bernadette, "loves to eat children soup!"

Modeling

...a personalized onesie from Grandma Anne; shadows cast by morning light and fire glow; a smile that could only have been crafted in heaven.

Another use for stickers

First snowy day

Fairy godmother

Cinderella

At Fairbury High School

Geothermal system

Not every day you get to peek into an eight-foot deep trench in you back yard. Some people suggested we should have kept it as a moat.

Sister act

Carr cousins

Mara's baptism

Pondering

Bernadette: "Why does that spider keep climbing up the water spout?"

Mama: "I don't know.  Why do you think?"

B: "Because it's a spider.  Spiders climb up spouts."

Kateri

The other day Kateri invented an apparently hilarious new game: take her mother by the hand and lead her all around the yard.  Toward the end of the adventure, she began announcing changes in direction by saying, "Dis way, bawd eagle!"  Yes, young sparrow.

She loves Beatrix Potter's collections of nursery rhymes and has most of them memorized.  Many a time I have read this one:

"I think if she lived in a little shoe house, that little old woman was surely a..."

I pause there, and Kateri chimes in with "mouse!" to complete the rhyme.  Well, the other night, for reasons of which no one is quite sure, when I came to the familiar line and paused in the usual spot, she piped up with, "spider monkey!"

Hmm...

Kateri stuck her hand between two couch cushions and then appeared to put something into her mouth.

Mama: "What are you eating?"

K: "Owange juice.  You want some?"

And they're off

Somebody told them they might get candy

Spooky

Handwriting lesson

Isaiah: "Oops, sorry.  That O looks like a racing car in wild career with no spoiler."

Isaiah sure does like ham.

"This is so good I could eat it until another asteroid hits the earth."

(Well, when the rare acceptable supper comes along, you'd better fill up.)

Going places

Smiley

Helping

Overheard

Bernadette: "Wicked monarch!"

Isaiah: "Stop shouting 'wicked monarch' at me!"

Dancing

Boring

We were walking around looking at things. Then dad set me down for a picture. I'm annoyed.

Wizard of Oz

Bernadette said she was scared of the witch, but she still wanted a picture with her, and Glinda and Dorothy. Beatrice HS with a great production.

Sunny

Crossing

Isaiah didn't make it all the way the first time (asked for help down), but later he made it once when I wasn't there and once when I was. I made it across on my first try!

Monkey bridge

Sisters

Sharing stories

Itsy bitsy sisters

Fussy baby? Bernadette is on it.

"Mama, I called the midwife.  She says the baby needs to nurse and go to sleep.  And if she can't sleep, then she has to stay awake."

Supper time, story time

Mama: Isaiah, you need to eat something besides applesauce. Do you want to try some meatloaf or macaroni and cheese?

Isaiah: Um...suppose we change the subject. Let's tell scary stories.

M: OK, go ahead.

I: You first.

M: It was your idea.

I: Yes, but I wanted to give you the honor.

(Epilogue: I told "The Golden Arm." Isaiah pronounced it "too scary." He tried the meatloaf and found it was bearable enough to eat a few bites.)

Dramatic lighting

Sliders

Pumpkins!

Mad scientist look

... Or genius

Soccer team

Brushing

Hair and teeth at the same time.

Loud

NASCAR Nationwide race in KC

Just like her siblings

Sleeping with those arms in the air.

Birthday girl!

How did Kateri get to be 2?