Crosta and Coquita

I asked Kenzie to explain the picture she was drawing. I typed as she rambled off this story.

[referring to the creature on the left side of the page] "It's a Crosta. A crosta is a large animal like a dinosaur except that it swims and it lifts people by the neck. It's long and it has a shell. It swims in the water very good. He has hair too. He is like a horse. He is a horse. A crosta is a horse. He has hair on the top of his head. And says, "meeeeeeee." He has a little nose and a long tongue and he has a uvula in the back. Okay, Mom. And he has two noses. And he has two long tongues too.

Spelled "O-E-B-D-P-S"

It's Pepper's birthday today.

It has a long neck and it stretches down to its tail. He has a long tail too. It touches into its hair.

The picture is for Pepper's birthday.

It has two long tongues. It has long feet. Like five of them. Five legs. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven, I mean. Mom, he has one leg and one tail. Seven. He has a long tail too.

He is dressed up like a jaguar. He has fur and he is a jaguar. Jaguars have three tongues. And then it has three legs. It has seven legs, Mom. And then it has a scribbley tail with rabbits on his tail. He has rabbits on his head. Mom, he has rabbits on top of his hair. Jaguars don't have hair. It's like a jaguar, but it's not a jaguar.

There are two animals Coquita [on the right side of the page, spelled ONZI] and Crosta. A Crosta is like a jaguar but it's not a jaguar. Do you know what a coquita is? It's an animal that swims in the river. It's like a turtle but it's not a turtle. Can you say "TUR" and then "TUL?" A turtle has a small head. And he has small eyes.

What happened to my baby boy?

I finally broke down and gave Mason his first haircut. I've been staring at him all weekend. Without those cute little curls he looks like a kid!

Happy birthday Nathan

We went to Moses Lake to wish Nathan a happy third birthday. The ride over was a nightmare. Kenzie lost her DVD privilege early on. As far as punishments go, that was about as dumb as they come. For the rest of the trip she was on a rollercoaster of emotions…excited to see Nathan…bored…excited to see snow…irritable …bored…sleepy…excited that she could irritate her little brother…filled with “why’s” of a typical 3 year old and…bored.

Nathan had a pirate-themed birthday. All the party pictures are here. Kenzie and Mason also got in costume.








I'm happy to report that the kids were on their best behavior on the ride home.

Pirate princess rockstar

Nathan got a new guitar/karaoke machine for his birthday. Kenzie demonstrated by singing her "I Love My Shoes" song. Okay, it's really Eric Ode's song, but she loves that song. She'll chant "I love my shoes. I love my shoes. I love my high top, jump shot, stop-on-a-dime, flying full-throttle, nothing-to-lose, I love my shoes. Someone stop the presses, this is frontpage news. The headline says, "I LOVE MY SHOES!" (Notice Mason taking lessons in the foreground...)

PEPS Play date

Look hard to see pouty-face (Kenzie).

Rewind

I found the link to Kenzie's ultrasound. In this picture she's looking right at the camera. Creepy!

Monster at the door

Kenzie: Mom, you have to listen to me very carefully. There's a monster outside. I'm going to open the front door and tell him to go away.

Me: Okay, but do it through the window. Don't open the front door.

Kenzie: Why?

Me: Because I don't want you to open the front door.

[She leaves.]

Kenzie to the window: Monster, go away. [pause] Mom. He's still there.

Poor monkey

Monkey had to undergo a double enucleation. Mason kept biting the eyes so hard that they eventually came loose, posing a choking hazard.

So, monkey has no eyes. Poor Monkey. And, to add insult to injury, Mason plucks the filling out of the monkey's head as if he's pulling candy out of a gumball machine. It looked like it had snowed in his crib this morning. Grammy, Monkey needs some cosmetic surgery to seal the sockets.

The ultimate insult

From Grammy...

We enjoyed a wonderful overnight visit with Kenzie last week-end. Sunday morning we went to church where she spent the entire hour and 15 minutes watching Eric [Ode]. She is madly in love with him and was even able to sit next to him except when he was playing the piano or the guitar. And she is very excited about attending his "40th" birthday party next week. After church she remained in the pew and said "I don't want to leave". The "insult" followed a few hours later as we were driving her back to her home. I was singing with my best effort when she seriously asked "Grammy, have you lost your voice?" Oh well---Grampy assures me that God has a very special choir for people with voices like mine!

There's a new dawg in town

The long-loved Husky dawg was the victim of too much Mason nose-sucking and eventually became immune to the washing machine. (Permanently gross brown.)

He's been replaced by the monkey. (Sorry Donald & Michelle.) The good news is that the monkey started out brown. Mason's already sucking the eyes.

Trouble with the playground lady

After school Kenzie confessed to Cindy that she "fought an adult." Concerned, Cindy went to talk to her teacher Ms. Janet and got the full scoop. Turns out there was an incident with the playground lady, Ms. Dolores.

Later when we were talking to Grampy I asked her to retell the story.

She said, "Ms. Dolores said 'let's get out of the park because it's raining.' And I said, 'NO! No. No.' Ms. Dolores tried to grab my hand but I put my hand--BOTH of my hands--behind my back. So Ms. Janet came over and picked me up."

[Grampy's snickering into the phone.]

"Grampy thinks it's funny."

Diva

Take a bath in 3 easy steps

1. Approach

2. Jump

3. Enjoy!