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Poetry
January 25, 2010 19:59
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Adam had to write some poems as part of his schoolwork today. They were too funny not to share.

Prompt: Write a two-line free verse poem about a feeling. Compare it to some kind of food. For example, anger could be a tangle of spaghetti. Give your poem a title.

Happiness & Pastry

Happiness is like a cake,
Short, sweet and over too soon.

Prompt: Think of how someone you know is like a color, happy like yellow, for example. Write a two-line free verse poem on this topic without naming the person. Don’t forget a title.

Kayla

She is like pink,
Irritating to me but not many others.

Prompt: Write a four-line free verse poem, like “My Old Cat,” that creates a word picture of a day at school.

Homeschool

I am homeschooled,
It has its ups and downs,
I get ...
Papa's Passing and Trip to Texas
November 30, 2009 07:06
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If you keep up with Mike’s journal then you already know my grandfather died. It happened last Wednesday, November 30th. He was 82. It was either a heart attack or a stroke; they don’t know for sure, and because of his age no autopsy was ordered. Adam and I went back to Texas for the funeral. We left Thursday at 9:30AM. We flew from Spokane to Pasco to Salt Lake City to Dallas. The getting there was pretty uneventful. Adam cried some along the way, but for the most part he was content to play or sleep or nurse. I only changed planes once, in Salt Lake City where I also had a 2-hour layover. On the first plane, we were seated next to a nice woman named Judy who helped me with Adam. She held him and played with him and talked to me. We exchanged phone numbers, as she has an antique quilt her grandmother started that she’d like to have finished and I told her I’d talk to some people I know who do quilting and piecing by hand (it was all started by hand).
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Click on Yes
December 01, 2006 02:14
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Thomas was busy playing with his computer at bedtime, when the following conversation ensued:

Dad: It’s time to go to bed, Thomas.
Thomas: OK, I click on Yes to go to bed.
Spines
December 01, 2006 02:14
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Kayla (after getting a big hug from her Mom): You squeeze my spines!
Sloppy Joes
December 01, 2006 02:13
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Adam: “Not even an entire world made out of sloppy joes would be loved by me more than you are loved by me.”
Nana Fluffy
November 01, 2006 02:16
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Thomas: I want nudder ’nana fluffy! (banana muffin)
Cooking With What?
November 01, 2006 02:15
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Adam: Mama, when I grow up, I’m gonna have a cooking show called “Cooking at Cafe Adam.” All you need is a few ingredients, and a TV!
Mom: That sounds great! And I have a few ingredients, and a TV.
Adam: Yes. But it’s sad that people who live in boxes won’t be able to watch it.
Mom: Yes, that is sad.
Adam: Are there any people who live in boxes that have radios?
Mom: Yes, I think so.
Adam: Well, there will be a radio version of “Cooking at Cafe Adam”, called “Cooking With Trash Food.” (We’ve been doing some talking lately about gratitude and consequences and how much worse life could be than having to do schoolwork and have a bedtime.)
When Moms and Kids Get Silly
October 10, 2006 04:26
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Mom: Run, run, run, as fast as a deer. You can’t catch me…
Adam:… cuz I’m drinking root beer!

Mom: Run, run, run, as swift as a cheetah. You can’t catch me…
Adam:… cuz I’m not good to eat-a!

Mom: Run, run, run, as fast as light. You can’t catch me…
Adam:… cuz I’ve got much might!

Mom: Run, run, run, like a pair of pantyhose. You can’t catch me…
Adam:… cuz I’m standing on my toes!
Quote of the Day
September 17, 2006 04:33
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“Mama, if you were the first Dragon Master, you would be able to communicate with the Griffins, thereby understanding their needs!” – Adam, age 6

What, did you know how to use the word “thereby” appropriately when you were six? I damn sure didn’t!

(This concludes another Mommy Brag Session, brought to you today by the coefficient of N, and the letter Mu.)
Anatomy
September 08, 2006 04:56
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Adam: Kayla, how can you tell if a dolphin is a Daddy dolphin or a Mommy dolphin?
Kayla: Well, Daddies are a little bit short.
Who Me? Literal?
September 05, 2006 05:11
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Thomas: I want some more TV, Mommy.
Mommy: You would watch TV until the cows came home, if I let you.
Thomas: No, I don’t like cows, Mommy.
Overheard
September 05, 2006 04:12
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Kayla: OK, Thomas, I’m going to get da tewwaphone!
Thomas: OK, but be cayehful! You want to get no hurt!
Quote of the Day
August 24, 2006 05:15
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“When I grow up, I’m gonna be a real artist. Or maybe a Mama who shops for Pop-Tarts.” – Kayla
Conversation With Thomas
August 04, 2006 05:25
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Thomas: wahhhhhhh I gotta bonk!
Mama: Awww, did you get a bonk?
Thomas: Yes!
Mama: Poor baby. Where did you get the bonk?
Thomas: pointing over his shoulder On my backwards!
Quote of the Day
April 06, 2006 18:06
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“I think my name is Kayla because I’m cute.” – Kayla

No, love, your name is Kayla because you’re vain. ;)
Quote of the Day
April 04, 2006 18:06
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“Mommy, there’s some drips of water coming out of your eye.” – Kayla
Language Explosion
February 26, 2006 20:31
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Thomas has gone through a real verbal growth spurt in the last month or so. He started talking (and walking, and eating, and crawling, and climbing) early as it is, but now he’s doing a better and better job of making himself understood. His phrases include:

* “Mutt’s doe-in?” = “Whatcha doin?”
* “Dat’s Thomas’ fote-anna-poon!” = “That’s Thomas’ fork and spoon!”
* “Teem teese!” = “Cream cheese!”
* “Skeem peace” = “Ice cream, please.”
* “Givin’ baby Mama milk!” = “Give that baby some Mama milk, you imbecile!”
Big Families
January 25, 2006 00:23
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Mike is teaching Adam about frogs this week in his science class. Yesterday, they were reading a story about the life cycle of a frog, and Mike mentioned that frogs typically lay 40,000 eggs.

Mike: How would you like to have 40,000 brothers and sisters? That would be a very big family, wouldn’t it? You’d probably always have someone to play with.
Adam: Yes, but I think I would get pestered a lot.

Heh.

Incidentally, I’m 37 weeks pregnant today, and so officially “term.” There’s nothing at all to report (OB appointment tomorrow morning), and I don’t think we’ll have the baby any time soon. So. Yeah. No news is good news.
Preschool Grammar
January 13, 2006 01:14
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Adam: (after reviewing a picture drawn for him by Mary) So, let me get this straight… he’s going to take over the world with his skeletorial powers, right?
Good Morning!
January 09, 2006 01:15
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Terry: How did you sleep last night?
Kayla: (puzzled look on her face) I just closed my eyes and laid down to do that!
Independent Girl
January 01, 2006 01:20
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We have a rule here that you aren’t allowed to go into anyone else’s bedroom without their permission. Adam is forever trying to get into Kayla’s room to play with her stuff. This conversation just took place:

Adam: Kayla, can I go play in your room?
Kayla: Yes, you can.
Mike: No, Adam, you can’t just go into your sister’s room and play while she’s doing her reading.
Kayla: But I said he can! You shouldn’t change my mind for me, Daddy.

Oh. My. Gawd. I thought I was going to inhale my tongue, trying not to laugh out loud. She’s growing up. Just what the world needs: another generation of independent-thinking Gunderloys.
Quote of the Day
December 01, 2005 17:00
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“Behold, the fortress of doom! I disguised it, so no one would be able to recognize its doomness.” – Adam
Quote of the Day
October 23, 2005 22:22
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While I was doing more painting in Kayla’s room, Adam wandered in and pronounced: “See? The thing on each bear’s tummy gives it its name. For example, the cloud and hearts on Grumpy Bear’s belly stand for the power of love and grumpiness.”
Streetwalker
August 18, 2005 16:12
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Kayla was playing dress-up this evening. She got as far as two mis-matched glittery shoes, a purse with a too-long string slung around her neck, and a glittery skirt around her waist.

Me: Daddy, look! Kayla’s playing dress up! She looks a little like a streetwalker.
Kayla: Yeah! I look like a streetwalker!
Adam: I want to dress up like a streetwalker, too!
Kayla: You can’t, cuz there aren’t any more streetwalker clothes.
Mike: Thanks, Mom.
Homeschool Confusion
August 12, 2005 16:15
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In Adam’s history lessons, we’re talking about Plymouth colony. Today he got a new unit about “building a village.” Part of the accompanying story went thusly:

Everybody went to the meetinghouse on Sundays for two church services. The preacher read from the Bible and gave a sermon.


As we are heathen, church-shunning folk, I knew this would go completely over his head (the concepts, not the words), so I decided to pause to have a little impromptu lesson about religion.

Me: Do you know what church is?
Adam: He’s the one who tells the news in Plymouth.
Me: No, that’s the town crier. Church is the place that people go to pray. Do you know what pray means?
Adam: It means an animal eats a different animal.
Me: (falls out of chair laughing…)

So then we got to have another little impromptu lesson about homon...
Bundle Up!
June 20, 2005 06:20
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Kayla is a very maternal sort of girl, and one of her great fears is that someone might get cold. Today I saw her in my bedroom with Thomas (he of the one-year-old-birthday fame), gleefully pulling out my underwear from the drawer. They emerged a few moments later, with a pair of my underwear hanging from Thomas’ neck. I took them off and tossed them back into the bedroom, admonishing him gently that, “We don’t wear underwear on our neck, silly boy!”

Kayla squealed in protest. “Hey! I was using dat for a coat for my baby brudder, so he could pay in da snow!”
Quote of the Day
June 03, 2005 07:54
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My daughter, inviting our cat to a game of soccer:

“Snuddles? Anna pay baw?”
Princess Waterfall
May 23, 2005 14:53
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Today is our sixth anniversary. Our anniversary tradition is to take the day off from work, and just relax with our family. We’ve spent the day reading, eating, playing games, having baths, taking naps, watching movies, and otherwise lazing around. Mike was trying to explain “anniversary” to Adam, and he showed him my bridal picture, taken in front of a little tiny waterfall in a park near our photographer’s house. Being (almost) five, Adam’s comment was, “Well, it looks kind of like Mama, but she was dressed up like Princess Waterfall.”
Future Debaters
March 31, 2005 15:38
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Conversation overheard between my four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter:

Adam: Stop chattering.
Kayla: You’re not the daddy or the mama, so don’t worry about me, worry about yourself.
Adam: Sometimes I can’t.
Kayla: Sometimes you can.
Potty Etiquette
February 03, 2005 18:35
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Adam and I were at Subway on Monday, having lunch. He noticed the Men’s restroom and read the “Men” sign. The Women’s restroom was around a corner, so he hadn’t seen it. The following conversation ensued:

Adam: Mommy, that says “Men.”
Me: Yep, it sure does.
Adam: Are there men in there?
Me: I don’t think there’s anyone in there right now. That’s where men and boys go to potty.
Adam: (careful thought) Boys can go potty in there?
Me: Yes.
Adam: (more careful thought) Girls can stand outside the door.
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