flotsam and jetsam

Hey sangerin, we went to a vegetarian restaurant too last night! Yummeee...

Before that we went to our last private dance class, and I think we actually know something about dancing now. And let me tell you, a little (teeny tiny bit of) knowledge is a dangerous thing. I think we learned how to do the following:

• Tango (three steps, then right side): basic, promenade, turn, corte
  
• Foxtrot (two steps, then left side): basic, and I'm sure we learned other steps, but I can't remember them
  
• Rhumba (side, step step)(small): basic, 5-step turn, corner step, and... something else
  
• Waltz (back, step step)(bigger): basic, progressive, 7-step turn, and some weird swinging back-to-back hand-to-hand thing
  
• Swing: basic, basic turn, cuddle, man underarm turn, chicken walk, weird handshake type thing

Don't know what we'll look like the first time we actually try to do any of this in public, but it should be amusing for bystanders at least :)

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Speaking of amusing to bystanders, I think the funniest thing my kids do is something that I really wish I could videotape, but it never lasts more than a few moments.

Daniel is short, and little-kid-skinny. Roughly 5th percentile for height and weight for his age. Justin, OTOH, is huge. Roughly 95th percentile for height and weight. Because of the three year difference in their ages, he's slightly shorter than Daniel but outweighs him by a couple of pounds. And he's built like a tank - round belly, stout, strong arms and legs, round face. Think elf v. dwarf, and you're not far off the mark.

Anyway. They're both highly verbal and precocious, but because Daniel is older, he usually wins arguments. When deciding what they're going to play, Daniel can always muster more and better points than Justin can.

Justin, however, doesn't let this faze him. He will simply, once he realizes he's losing, grab Daniel by the hand and head off to do what he wants to do. Dragging Daniel behind him like a pull-toy, utterly ignoring his protests. Daniel loudly wailing the whole way (HEEeeeEEYY!! Juustiiin!! Quiit it! MAMaaaaaaa....) but helpless to resist.

I really wish I could film that. Maybe I'll set up a security camera in the living room.

Danielisms

Reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears tonight, Daniel stops me and says, "Wait a minute. How can the Mama Bear's bowl be colder than Baby Bear's? It's bigger."

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"Did you know there's an uppercase 2?"

"What?"

"There is. It's an 'a' with a circle around it."

(Take a look at your keyboard. He's right.)

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We're making our jack-o-lanterns, and Daniel and Justin are removing the pumpkin guts, both quite grossed out by the whole experience.

"This is the most disgusting job I've ever had," Daniel declares.

"Not me," I reply.

"How can there be anything more disgusting than this?"

"Daniel, do you know how many diapers I've changed?"

"Oooohh... yeah, that's a lot worse. Justin, that's waaay worse than these pumpkin guts. We shouldn't complain."

Narnia!!

This is me:



The fifth book written, you're the third book chronologically and take place during The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. You tell the story of the humans Shasta and Aravis and the talking horses Bree and Hwin, all trying to escape from unhappy lives in Calormen to go to Narnia.


Find out which Chronicles of Narnia book you are.

And this is Chris:


The sixth book written, you're nevertheless the first chronologically. You not only describe the creation of Narnia and tell where the White Witch, the lampost and the wardrobe came from, you get to bounce between worlds with the help of Uncle Andrew's weird magic rings.


Find out which Chronicles of Narnia book you are.

And this meme was gakked from sangerin!