I encourage you to add your kids’ weird stories and quotes too.
Peanut Butter Princesses
As part of our bedtime routine I ask the kids to think some of their favorite thoughts (in hopes to prevent nightmares) as they’re dosing off. Mary’s favorite thought one of those nights:
“Peanut Butter Princesses, jumping over fences, landing in puddles of chocolate!”
The Thinkers
Today the kids call me in saying, “Momma! We have a surprise for you!” Remembering yesterday’s surprise of a bar of soap magically pasted to the wall, or last week’s “rocket” built of shish kabob skewers, Styrofoam cups, and shortening “glue”, I was a bit worried.
To my relief, they’d only taken all of the cushions off the couch and stacked them to a TV-height bench with a “footstool” and were sitting there posed, each with their head on one hand and the other hand at their waist, staring out the window. It took me a minute to realize what the meant by saying they were “just like the chucky cheeses commercial”, but once I figured it out, they were right: Chucky Cheese has what I call a “mini-mercial” on the PBS Kids shows they sponsor. It says, “Chucky Cheeses – helping kids discover the joy of developing their bodies, AND their minds.” They show a picture of a kid in “Thinker” position on that last part.
Ethan’s Random Quote:
Mommmaaa! I just gotted up off the couch and pretended I was a 40 year old boy!
Anyway, they’ll be wanting some more abacus entertainment (I’d ordered one for Ethan’s birthday and it just arrived yesterday) so I’m off to take care of that.
Legend of Velda 