The things they say

While working on a puzzle with grandpa, Eli said to him,"Hey! You have hair on your arms!" Grandpa asks him if he does too, and he looks at his arms carefully before replying, "Nope, just hands and a t-shirt!"

Driving home from school we saw a neat convertible and Brian said "Look! A classic car!" Not to be outdone, Eli said "Look! I saw a classic squirrel!"

Brian announced that his favorite animal was a skunk. Eli added, " My favorite animals are a monster and a ghost."

Driving by Gro-Moore farms (a local nursery that has a big Halloween display) Eli announced, "There's Halloween!" this was today, half a year after we saw their Halloween display; it made quite an impression!

Really everything they say is so funny, even now they are playing and I asked Brian what they were doing to play, and he said "Drop on pop." worried, I asked what this involved and he told me "Well, it's where I drop things on Eli and he laughs." Oh, OK. Aside from being messy at a time when I discourage messiness, it was pretty harmless.


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Easter Picnik

The kids and I are down in Delaware for Easter, and having somewhat less than usual to do I was a little bored and downloaded the new version of Picasa, which now includes the photo editing functions that were on Picnik.  That might not mean much to anyone reading this, but for me it was super exciting and meant that I immediately went to town applying fun effects to my pictures.  So here is our Easter, in plain old pictures and in fun, effect-laden pictures, side by side for your enjoyment.  We started yesterday by dyeing some eggs.  It was Eli’s first time doing this and I only gave him one egg to do, which was about his speed. 

Brian did a bunch, and mixed colors, and ate several along the way. 

The Easter bunny came today and the boys had a blast doing an Easter egg hunt. 

Then Brian and I got to work making hot cross buns.  He’s a great kitchen helper!

While we did that, Eli played “roll the lemon” with grandma and grandpa. 

And then after a (short) nap and a walk, we ate out hot cross buns!

Fun times!  Videos are going up on vimeo, check it out!