chucky larms

Overheard

2012-02-14T13:57:00.002-05:00

ANDREW: For third period I'm supposed to name my favorite hip hop artist and hip hop song...I've never even heard a hip hop song!

Note: Andrew is 12. So far, so good.

Sophie wrote a book

2012-02-09T09:59:00.000-05:00

"How Do I Feel?" by Sophie

We love this crazy kid

2012-02-08T19:58:00.002-05:00

Overheard

2011-12-24T15:24:00.000-05:00

SOPHIE: It's sad that Santa and the elves don't get presents for Christmas.
ME: How do you know they don't get presents?
SOPHIE: Cause they don't.
ME: Well Santa gets to eat all the cookies people leave for him.
SOPHIE: Yeah but that's not presents. I'm talking about toys. And knives and stuff.
ETHAN: Knives? Why would Santa want a knife?
SOPHIE: To cut stuff.
ETHAN: Santa wouldn't want to cut stuff Sophie. He's not a violent man.

Ethan is getting a serious volume of hair removed. It requires two trained technicians.

2011-12-23T18:05:00.000-05:00

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Overheard

2011-12-18T23:24:00.000-05:00

SOPHIE: I want to wear high-heeled shoes.
GINGER: Not until you're older.
SOPHIE: But my friend Brianna was allowed to wear high-heeled shoes when she was four.
GINGER: Hmmm...Well, I don't know about that but in our family we don't wear high-heeled shoes until we're 12.
SOPHIE: So does Andrew get to wear high heels?

We're loving the Arizona winter today.

2011-12-17T12:11:00.000-05:00

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"A football? What's a football?"

2011-12-17T12:09:00.000-05:00

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They gave up their Christmas

2011-12-16T13:54:00.001-05:00

Happy Birthday Emma

2011-12-03T15:44:00.001-05:00

She turned 8 this week.

Sunday night crepes with Nutella

2011-10-30T21:12:00.000-04:00

Henry can't get enough. He is calling them "num nums."

It was suspiciously quiet.

2011-10-27T17:12:00.001-04:00

Then we heard water running. This is what we found when we went upstairs.

Henry's added a new trick to his repertoire

2011-10-17T23:51:00.001-04:00

In the toilet

2011-10-09T22:53:00.000-04:00

Overheard

2011-10-01T22:37:00.001-04:00

ANDREW: I have many goals in life, but one of them is to grow a handlebar mustache before I go to college... And if I can't be an entomologist I want to be the guy who swallows swords in the shark tank at Shedd Aquarium.

Overheard

2011-09-06T23:59:00.000-04:00

Tonight in the car...

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ANDREW: Gaylord Street?!? Why Gaylord Street?

ME: Gay used to mean "happy."

GINGER: Gaylord is a name.

...

ETHAN: Wait. Did you say gay used to mean happy?

ME: Yep.

ETHAN: So that's why on the Flintstones song they say they'll have a "gay old time"?

ME: Yep.

...

ETHAN: I thought it was different.

Overheard

2011-08-29T20:16:00.002-04:00

ME: Andrew, what kind of sushi do you want for your birthday?
ANDREW: Any invertebrate.

(Been away from the blog for a while...more posts to come...sometime.)

2,018 miles

2011-07-29T09:50:00.002-04:00

Moving day

2011-07-29T09:41:00.000-04:00

Overheard

2011-07-10T14:29:00.001-04:00

ETHAN: Sophie took the cookie that I licked.
GINGER: Why did you lick one of the cookies?
ETHAN: To reserve it.
SOPHIE: Well, I don't taste any licks.

Overheard

2011-07-08T09:54:00.001-04:00

SOPHIE: When I grow up my name is going to be Bertha.

This year is going to be good

2011-06-27T20:51:00.000-04:00

We got the kit that comes with safety glasses (among other things). That's right, we're celebrating our patriotism and Chinese marketing genius at the same time.

Feeling giddy around here

2011-06-24T20:28:00.001-04:00

Yes, it's another crawling video

2011-06-09T14:27:00.000-04:00

But we've never seen anything like this in our family before, and we can't get enough of it around here. He moves around through a combination of ninja rolls and army crawls. Here is how he sneaks under the barbed wire:

We find it both hilarious and endearing. He is having fun exploring, finding things to get into, doors to open, beds to jump off of, etc. He loves his freedom, but still prefers to be carried around.

Hooray for summer

2011-06-04T20:22:00.000-04:00