Slug Bug?

"I saw a race car slug bug!" ~Henri

All You Need Is...

I was just walking around singing "All you need is love, love... love is all you need."


Henri stopped me by saying "Uh-uh.... all you need is food and water."

He thought that was funny ;)

(Admittedly, he does have a point.)

Heck No

While eating our over-sized super yummy chocolate chips.... Henri said, "Mom, you know there is music called 'heck no'."

"Heck no??  No I didn't know about that....  ummm... what kind of music is it??"

Claire being her normal self, chimed in:  "It's not heck no... it's techno."

To be honest... I think Henri's right... if someone asked me if I liked listening to techno, I'd say "heck no"!! :)

Starts With "J"

My last post here was May 2010... yikes!!!... it's been awhile!!  As my friend Jess would say... I'm a slacker ;)

On our way home from the store today, "Stop This Train" by John Mayer came on...




Chase immediately complained saying, "Aww... turn it."

I said, "What now you don't like John Mayer??...  Too bad, I'm not turning it."

Claire then chimes in and sarcastically says, "Chase you don't like anyone whose name starts with a 'J'... you don't like Jack Johnson... you don't like Jason Mraz.... see you don't like any music by people whose name starts with a 'J'."

To which Chase replies, "....I do too... I like Jay-Z."

:D  (that's my boy!!!)

Our Buddy: May 20, 1995- May 17, 2010

Little Carrots

On the way home from karate tonight... oh wait... rewind....

A couple of weeks ago, Chase decided that he no longer wants to take horse riding lessons. He just wants to ride a horse on a trail and was bored with all the "learning" involved with his horse lessons. Of course, this didn't come out of nowhere.  For the past few weeks, he has taken an interest in karate (this could have something to do with "The Force" he has been trying ever so hard to use on me... and not to mention all of the junk food in the grocery store.)  Finally, on Tuesday, Aaron took Chase to his first karate class. He had such a great time that he couldn't wait to go back tonight. On the way to his class, he asked, "Mom, you're going to sign me up tonight, right?!!" He's already made friends... "fought" with these "battle sticks" (they totally look like light sabers or the 'noodles' used for swimming).  He had such a blast... and, of course, was all smiles throughout the class.

So.... as I was saying... on the way home from karate Claire says, "Mom, how come we never have Little Carrots?"

"What??"

"Little Carrots. How come we never go there?"

"Claire, what the heck are little carrots????"

"You know that place with the orange sign.... Little Carrots, when can we go there for dinner??"

Obviously, I was completely baffled... THEN, it hit me.

"Claire you mean Little Caesars???"

Chase's Pink Ride

The other day, Chase kept stealing Claire's bike.  Claire was so distraught over it... crying wailing, "Chase won't give me back my biiiiiiiiiiiiiiike."  Of course, during his joy rides on Claire's bike, Chase thought that it was hilarious UNTIL Aaron pulled out his phone to take a picture.  Chase tried to get away, but was no match for his quick fingered Dad!

And all Chase could say while laughing was, "Don't put it on Facebook."

HAHA!!  This'll teach him to steal a pink bike ;)

Turtle Art by Chase

For the past several months, Chase has been studying sea turtles at school.  What's great about where he goes to school is that what they're learning in the classroom carries over into other parts of their education such as using their technology classes and art classes to explore different ways to learn about turtles.  Today, Chase brought home his turtle artwork that he's been telling me about for weeks....

It's crayon that's been painted over with black and then etched.  I think it's beautiful :)

(Click on the picture to see it enlarged)

A Note to the Tooth Fairy

On April 14, while pushing her friend on the swings at school, Claire lost her very first baby tooth.  She was so excited, except that she didn't want the tooth fairy to take her tooth.... SO... she wrote her a note :)

"Tooth fairy please can I keep my baby tooth!"

Words of Henri: The Table

Getting some cleaning done this morning... yes, I know...fun fun!

Henri and I were folding laundry--OK... really he was laying on my bed talking to me-- and I told him,

"When we finish with this, I need to go pick up the table."

His response: "How you gonna do that?"

Nice... my 3 year old is making jokes from my words.