Humorous Happenings

I love Sera's words: she calls the toaster a "roller coaster," granola bars are "monkey bars," and she doesn't believe in "big" and "small," only "hoonge" and "teeny." She also loves eating CHLOCATE, which she always talks about in big letters.

When the kids were informed of my new responsibilities in primary, Emerson asked, "so, when are you going to cancel church?" "What?" I asked. "You're the canceller [counselor], so when are you going to cancel church?"

More than once we've told Sera that she's a "smart cookie." But she insists that she's Sera, that she's "cuter than pie," and that we shouldn't eat her. And let me tell you, she's pretty hard to resist with those cheeks!

For the longest time we kept hearing Emerson and Sera carry on these convoluted discussions about "person walking," "hand, hand, hand," and "stop hand." It took quite a while for us to figure out that they were trying to figure out how the cross-walk signals work.

Theo's favorite activity lately is making iPods. And iPhones. And netbooks, Blackberries, PSPs, and DSIs. He studies them in minute detail whenever we get an ad for an electronics store, then cuts out little rectangles of cardboard from whatever cardboard boxes he can find around the house (sometimes he sneaks out of his bedroom in the middle of the night to get his favorite cardboard-cutting scissors, my kitchen shears). Then, in pen, he fills in every key and application that he can identify. As a result of all the repetition (he's made about a hundred of these, literally) he randomly recited off the computer keyboard for me the other day: QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM. He got them all right without looking. I've been typing for a lot of years, and I can't do that.