Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Diesel (Shouted at a passing train. Someone's been watching Thomas the Tank Engine.)

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Deep Questions with Beatrice

Beatrice pretty much talks non-stop. The only time she stops talking is when she's reeling in pain because she has just walked, run, jumped, slipped, slid or otherwise collided with something bigger and heavier than herself. All day long she's talking to herself or bruising herself.

Last night while I was making brownies she shouted from the other room, "Brownies!!? Why would the Browns talk to the Knees??!" Then of course she laughed uproariously for about five minutes.

Some things are just funnier when you're a four-and-a-half year-old hopped up on adrenaline.

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Another classic Beatrice face...

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Spice, 'Weet, Sauce. (He knows hot sauce and identifies it by "spice", but was a little thrown off by the red strawberry syrup we put on his pancakes. It took a while to convince him it's a sweet. He also calls catsup 'sauce'. )

When Beatrice was little she'd sometimes leave her juice cup sitting around for too long and then take a swig of bubbly juice. She called this "picey" and I think it's funny that she left of the 's' at the beginning while Obie leaves off the 'y' at the end.

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Crayon (Obie likes to dwaw with a trayon or makah.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Coin. (Said while pinching his thumb and first two fingers together on both hands, as if holding coins. The big black pirate at the renaissance faire gave him two plastic gold doubloons and now he has to have one in his pocket at all times!)

Friday Foto

I haven't managed to get a Friday Foto up here in three weeks, so here are three fotos from our trip to the zoo today:

Como Zoo

St. Paul, MN

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Dere 'e is!! Deeeeee!! (exclaimed as the cat, Dee Dee, came bolting down the stairs.)

Obie's Word of the Day

I'm way behind. Obie repeats everything he hears lately, so it's hard to come up with just one word of the day, but while playing with Beatrice and his train set he came up with this one and it's great!

Obie's word of the day: Oh, man! (complete with smack to the head!!)

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