Jacob Black = Daddy

While Isabel was at her Activity Day class, Luke, Sylvia, Hazel and I headed off to Target to let Sylvia choose what to buy with her birthday money.  Right when we hit the Barbie aisle, Hazel made a beeline for the Jacob Black dolly shouting, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!"  Hazel, your daddy is WAY hotter than Jacob.

Here is the pink monstrosity Sylvia picked out.  Thanks Great Aunt Beverly!!!

Quotes from a Future Entomologist

I usually have quotes from Sylvia to share.  Today I have a few from Luke....

• After he caught a small bee/fly? in his bug jar he said, "It just feels so good to have something in my jar, no matter how common the species."
• While in the pet store, all of the huge parrots and cockatoos started squawking.  Luke, "It's like a store full of Sylvias!"
• Staring off into space.  Luke, "I have about a million things going on in my head right now."
• While exploring under the ocean on Google Earth (by the way, did you know you can go under the ocean on Google Earth?)  Luke said, "I wonder if I am the first person to ever be at this exact spot in the ocean on Google Earth!"  Oh my little virtual explorer.

We've started reading the book, The Witches by Roald Dahl.  A very good book for Halloween!

Pet Store Field Trips

Today school included piano lessons for Luke and Isabel while the little girls and I visited the library, then our pet store field trip, now some read out loud time, and then some math.  We used to do pet store field trips more often, but we hadn't been in quite a while. On the drive home from the pet store I told them a joke about a boy who bought a turtle and kept having to bring the turtle back to the store to exchange him since his legs kept "falling off."  Punchline is that come to find out, the boy was playing with his turtle like a car.  "VROOM VROOOOM!"  While I was laughing at my own joke like an idiot, in the rear view mirror I saw that my kids were horrified.  There were then questions and comments like, "Why didn't he just buy a fish?"  "That joke was weird."  and Sylvia's "Mom, did that really happen?!"

Sylvia saying she wants three kitties.

Sylvia telling me that a bird peed on her.