Creatures

Superman:"Do you know giant ants?"
Me:"Yes"
SM:"They are much older then small ants"
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Me, (while picking up the sewing kit that Mimi has thrown around the room and singing the clean up song from Barney): "...everybody do your share..."
Mimi:"I don't share"

Super Hero

Superman:"Who is this?"
Me:"Boba Fett"-(From Star Wars)
SM:"He's a superhero"
M:"No, he's a bounty hunter"
SM:"But he has his hands are on his hips!"

In that same mind-frame:
The other day I set out the hot oatmeal to cool (think 3 little bears). To make it cool faster started blowing. Suddenly my hands were on my hips. Yeah, I looked like Superman, I'll spare you from a picture of the the event--I was in my pj's.

Tag

Tag from my S-I-L's blog
1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages)
2. Turn to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog
5. Tag 5 people

From The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev
"Prepares for P--K4, the key move of the Colle, which opens the position and liberates Whites' Queen-side pieces."

If you are a person consider yourself tagged.
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Greg-as I started typing this:"why do I feel like I'm about to be made fun of for being a nerd?"

Happy Mother's Day

Superman is smiling, Greg is cooking, and Mimi's asleep, I'm happy.

Quiet

When my dad showed up at my sister's house his first words were, "do you have anything that needs to be done?" I don't know about her, but I planned ahead, I had a list of things for him to do once he came here. One was tying up a new rope on the tire swing. Here Mimi and Superman are trying to stop him from striking it from the list. I had a list for mom too, they both did real well--thanks guys!
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We don't have cable and sometimes the picture comes in fuzzy.
The other day, I was in the other room and not only was the picture fuzzy, but the sound was too. Superman didn't know how to describe it to me, but here he is trying. See the confusion on their faces?
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During the sacrament in church today, this was the whispered conversation:
Greg:"Why do we take the sacrament?"
Superman:"To think about Jesus"
Greg:"What did he do for us?"
Superman:"He died for us"
Greg:"Why?"
Superman:"To save us"
Greg:"From what?"
Superman:"Tunnels"
What???
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I'm sure you've noticed that Mimi's hair is short but getting longer. Tonight was rare, I took off her dinner-stained shirt and let her run to get her pj's. She was so distracted by her hair hitting her shoulders when she ran.

A great picture of Greg and his brother from our trip to Ohio that I forgot to post.

Bonk

Mostly lately Superman has been saying "Bonk" for everything.
"How was school?"
"Bonkish."
"Are you ready to dinner?"
"I'm ready for Bonker."
"AUGH!"
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As I drove home from taking my mom and dad to the airport today, Mimi cried from the back seat: "I want to go GeeGawh and DaddyDad." (Grandma and Granddad)
Superman:"If you went with them you not be with our family, and we would miss you!"
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As I update this blog, Superman gets frustrated, he doesn't want to see my type, he wants to see pictures:"Let's go to picture-land."

Busy Week

On the train to Boston.

Superman has done this before. This week was for a birthday party.

Slipping around Echo Bridge, Mimi kept yelling "woo, whipery".

Springfield Armory was really fun.
Mimi with her new lunch box. It has images of women from WWII. She played with it for a full hour and a half on the drive home.

Boston

On our trip to Boston we found the buildings where my dad used to work, and this YUM!
We also saw a huge line of people waiting to get into Faneuil Hall. My mind immediately thought they were waiting to audition for a reality show. I asked one of the camera crew, he said it was for a swearing in ceremony. How cool.

The Cape

I've heard about Cape Cod my whole life, it's always been a place I thought I would go. For some reason when I ask people where we should go to vacation or to spend the day, they change the subject. Why don't people want to tell me where a good place to stay is? They don't want to let the secret out? Well too bad, there are libraries with tour books, and now I'm telling anybody that will listen: we went to Sandwich, we left at about 1 pm on a beautiful Saturday in April . It was perfect. Zero traffic. The beach was free, the restaurant wasn't crowed, we had a front row seat at the glass blowing demonstration, and Superman even "helped" to make a pressed-glass sun-catcher.
Now the secret is out.
Only problem, the water was really cold.

hikes

Superman-at the beginning of the hike:"A hiker hikes in everything he needs."
(What did he carry? Water, lucky cap, binoculars, walking stick, bag for interesting leaves.
How long did he carry it all? Not long.
Who carried it all out? Me.)
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Superman-at the end of the hike:"We are back where we started."
Me:"Yes, we are at trail head"
Superman:"What?"
Me:"This is the beginning of the trail, so people call it the head of the trail or the trail head."
Superman:"we went in the mouth."
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My sister :"my biggest fear is having a boring blog."

Taxes

Update with pictures.

Greg ran the half marathon with his sister! Here he is at mile one.
My big news: I got my hair cut without having to get a babysitter.
Superman: "mom, did you get your hair cut-ted?"

A fun blog that my sister-in-law showed me:
http://bakerella.blogspot.com/

We did a bunch of stuff on our way to, and in Columbus, Oh: the zoo, the race, Greg played lots of guitar with this brother, we played lots of Wii and trains, we visited with old friends who have left Boston (we miss you SOOO much!), we even went to a major league soccer game--with 7 goals.

reward

Mimi and Dad had a little work to do this weekend.
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After fixing a loose screw on a chair Superman said:"I want a snack reward , because I'm so hungry from working"