Ok – you’ve got me there…

This morning, my children are pretending that they’re in Narnia. Middle Daughter is pretending that she’s Susan, and she’s created a bow and arrow made of sticks (her gift from Father Christmas). Youngest Daughter is Jadis, the White Witch, and she’s using a baton as her magic wand.

The problem with this is that they’re running around and chasing each other with sharp, pointy objects.

After several admonitions to stop pointing these things at each other, I said…

There won’t be any more warnings. If you point something at your sister, it will be taken away from you.

Youngest Daughter promptly started pointing her fingers as magic wands.

Sigh.

Ok. You win.

Everybody’s got a water buffalo

This evening, Youngest Daughter was singing “The Water Buffalo Song”. I interrupted her…

Youngest Daughter (singing): Everybody’s got a water buffalo…

ordinary (mostly) (interrupting): Where is yours?

Youngest Daughter (sadly): Mine is dead.

Men with long hair

Today, Ordinary Spouse overheard a conversation among our girls. They were debating whether men could have long hair…

Youngest Daughter: Doesn’t YouTube have long hair?

Her sisters (puzzled): What do you mean?

YD (with emphasis): I mean the guy who goes…

OH-OH OH-OH EXCAVATION!

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Ah, yes. That guy does have long hair…

Mamma Mia!

Ordinary Spouse has an Abba album that she likes. The girls are starting to pick up some of the songs. Tonight, Youngest Daughter was singing Mamma Mia:

Mamma Mia!
Here I go again!
My, my!
How can I have a sister?

Sweetness

Youngest Daughter likes Sugar Plum Spice tea, and she received a box of it for Christmas. At supper time, she was ready to make a cup. As it was steeping, I asked if she wanted milk and sugar with it. She responded…

Yes. I like sweetness. Sweetness is what I love.

Sugar Plum Spice

And now as I type…

I love Sugar Plum tea!

We buy foods while they’re fresh

Ordinary Spouse was shopping with the girls in Caputo’s yesterday. (She generally shops there when she wants fresh fruits and veggies; Aldi when she wants staples; and Meijer when she needs household supplies.)

They walked past the snacks, and Youngest Daughter peered down the aisle intently. Then she saw the cheese puffs…

Look! There are those crunchy, orange worm things! I think they’re in season now.

And of course, you should always buy food in season. It just tastes better.

 

(by Annulla)

After this, ponder the incarnation

Ordinary Spouse shared this conversation that she had with Youngest Daughter…

YD: Do you know what “consisted” means?

OS: Yes, it means what things are made out of. Like the cookie dough consisted of flour, butter and chocolate chips.

YD: God made people out of dirt, right?

OS: Yes.

YD: Dirt is made out of poo, right?

OS: Yes.

YD: So people are made of poo?

OS: Um, yes. Recycled poo with God’s breath blown in to make us alive.

 

Random blogging, part 5 – Cute quotes

Here are two quotes to amuse you, courtesy of my delightful family. First, we have this from a discussion of the parks in our town:

Ordinary Spouse: We can list all the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’…

Oldest Daughter: …and we can list all the ‘Genghis Khans’!

And Youngest Daughter was singing this little ditty the other morning:

Bacon makes my whole heart want to sing!

She later clarified that she meant “bakin’” and not “bacon”, but it certainly caused some raised eyebrows for Ordinary Spouse and me. (It is true that YD is the baker among the girls. Anytime OS starts up the mixer, YD is there.)

Stories of the day

Here are a few stories featuring Youngest Daughter…

At breakfast, we overheard her gearing up for today:

I need something to do. I need to find an action word!

Later, while I was still at the table with Pandora playing on my laptop, Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” came on. It was very cute when YD grabbed her harmonica and joined in.

The Rainbow House of Learning is getting ready for another year of school. Today, one of our friends hosted a party for a bunch of homeschoolers. It was a “Not-Back-To-School” party. And YD declared to Ordinary Spouse:

I want to learn how to read!

OS found the easiest book in our house. So tonight, instead of listening to her bedtime story, YD read to me.

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And finally, I wanted to share a picture of supper tonight. Because it was awesome. And Ordinary Spouse is awesome.

She served homemade spinach and cilantro falafel with pita bread and a mint yogurt. Additional tomatoes and cilantro are on the side. The recipe was based on one from Green Kitchen Stories. I’m guessing I had one of the best meals in town.

And we have leftovers.

Hey! I resemble that remark!

The ordinary family went to see the Kane County Cougars take on the Great Lakes Loons on Saturday. The Cougars lost 9-3*, but we had a lot of fun: we were there with church friends, we got to see the Jesse White Tumblers, and there was a great fireworks display at the end**.

* Middle daughter may actually have been pleased with the result. She’s a big fan of the loons – the birds, though not necessarily the baseball team.

** You wouldn’t necessarily expect post-game, single-A minor league fireworks to be anything special, but these were really well done.

As we were leaving (nearly 10 pm), Youngest Daughter said to Ordinary Mommy…

There’s a chance about as long as Daddy’s hair that I’ll be awake when we get home.