The crawler

On the road, listening to NPR

Mama: "Yay, it's A Prairie Home Companion!"

Isaiah: "I prefer Car Talk."

Daddy: "Garrison Keillor makes jokes, too."

Isaiah: "Actually, what he does is he complains about his life."

Mara crawls

She crawled today, so I figured we'd try driving, too.

Neverland

Isaiah: "My Neverland has all the crime fighters in it."

Mama: "My Neverland has a unicorn.  What about yours, Bernadette?"

Bernadette: "Princesses!  What does your Neverland have in it, Kateri?"

Kateri: "Umm...Kansas City!"

"I've got a game!"

says Bernadette.  "It's called Zig-Zag-Zig-Zag-Fight-Really Fast."

Something to chew on

That's what books are for, right?

Princesses

They liked the movie.

Laundry time

Treasure in heaven

Bernadette: "Maybe, when God sees all the love I give to my baby sister, he'll give me a crown."

Mama: "When you get to heaven?"

B: "Yes, that's what I meant."

Scenes from City Park

We ran into Becky Heuer, a high school friend of Aunt Marty's.  She was experimenting with her new camera and took these beautiful photos.  Thank you, Becky!

Barnboard

Helpers

Taking it off the barn

In transit

Siding the house

Somebody likes chicks

Fantasy baseball

Isaiah draws team names for draft order

There you have it, folks.

Grandpa: "I think it must be hard to be two.  Is it hard to be two, Kateri?"

Kateri: "Not too bad."

Curtains

Morning snack

Mess with Mara, and you'll have Kateri to deal with.

Sitting at the breakfast table with Mara in my lap, I told Kateri I had to leave for a minute to put clothes in the dryer.

K: "Can you leave Mara here?"

M: "No, because she can't sit in the chair by herself.  If I put her in the chair by herself, she would fall on the floor and bump her head."

K: "Mama, if you do that and Mara bumps her head, I will hit you.  OK?"

Date night

Ploughshares Brewery in Lincoln.  The beer, wine, and food were good.  Mara was well-behaved, so the establishment tolerated her.  All told, it was a nice evening out.

Lessons

At the beginning of preschool, Bernadette was furious when I tried to tell her which hand to use to make the sign of the cross.  "I don't care!  I can use whichever one I want!" she informed me.  At the end of the lesson, she climbed into my lap, mumbling gibberish.  I kissed her and said, "Bernadette, I think sometimes you want to be grown up and sometimes you want to be a baby."  After a thoughtful pause came the response: "I always want chocolate."

After reading a picture book about the Stations of the Cross, I heard two different reactions.
From Bernadette the Defender: "If I had been there, I would have said, 'Don't bother my Jesus!  Just leave Him alone!'"
From Isaiah the Pragmatist: "That just would have gotten you into trouble!"

Interpretation

Bernadette's animated retelling of "Godzilla," which was showing at the sushi restaurant in Lincoln where we ate last week:  "He was very irritated with buildings." Also: "I think he pulled someone's hair."