Cate loves fruit and eats it like candy. All day, every day. Today, she was struggling with a grapefruit. Cate: Mom, can you help me scoop this out?Me: I can try, but I’m not very good at cutting grapefruit.Cate: GRAPEfruit!? I thought it was called ‘GREATfruit!’
Bree (age 10): Mom, are you in your thirties?Me: No, I am in my forties.Bree: Oh, I am in my tendies.
Bree and Cate were talking about birds, comparing the sizes of their toy, stuffed birds to the actual sizes of their real counterparts: Bree: A real chickadee is only a quarter of the size of this toy. And a real hummingbird is probably only a quarter of the size of Cate’s hummingbird toy.Cate: No, it […]
Knowing the girls’ love of birds, we watched Netflix’s new documentary, Dancing With the Birds. It was all about birds’ courtship rituals, from dancing to elaborate nest building. The girls loved it! And then I saw this interesting picture on our whiteboard the following day: I asked Bree what the two birds were doing, and […]
What did we do before Google and the internet? Today’s question, from Breezy (age 9): “Mom, do birds fart?” And now I know that you are curious to know the answer, too! Apparently, no, they do not fart that we know of. Because they have short digestive systems and “evacuate waste” often, they effectively don’t […]
Tonight, I read The Magic School Bus Visits the Ocean Floor to Bree and Cate for bedtime. Which prompted a discussion about a video we had watched several months ago about a daddy seahorse giving birth to many hundreds of seahorses. Which prompted Bree to ask how the mommy seahorse laid the eggs in the […]
I asked Adrianna to clean up a mess she’d made and was told, “Mom, you broke my fun.”
Adrianna was playing with a toy dog today. Adrianna: My dog is a nauseous dog. Me (puzzled): A nauseous dog? Why is he nauseous? Adrianna: Oh, he barks a lot and is mean and doesn’t like kids. I think she meant “vicious”. 🙂
Some cute things Adrianna says: “Mommy, it’s berry scaring me!” She loves trains, but she often says this to us when she hears a train whistle in the distance. “It’s berry raining outside!” “I’ll come in a little minute.” “The cars bite me.” (This one is in regards to safety and our rule that she […]
Adrianna’s vocabulary continues to flourish more and more every day. One of the things she often does is ask to tell us she “likes” different things that we may be discussing at the time. We are often informed that Teddy Bear (lately pronounced Teddy Beer) “likes” these things too. These “likes” can range from her […]