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This is Linus wearing his favorite outfit: plaid, button-up shirt (with the top button buttoned) and quilted pants with striped, elastic cuffs around the ankles (Don't ask me where we got those. I don't know.)
From my experience (having once attended a black hole symposium on a date), he looks like a physicist. Which is pretty darn close to the aspirations we have for him.
He obviously has a very sophisticated sense of color.
Moses: What's for dinner?
Me: Lasagna.
Linus: Oh, lasagna is my favorite color of food!
(Pretend Birthday this week for Herbie)
Herbie had to come up with an invention and write a report on it for school. He decided to draw a concept car. It had a swimming pool, a bubble blower, pedals for kids. It could swim and fly. Then he had a brilliant idea.
I know! It's going to have a microscope coming out of the top!Which later morphed into a telescope, which makes a bit more sense.
On my way to the kids' rooms to get them up, someone scurried past me in the dark. It was Moses coming from Herbie's room. Herbie had been holding a "Story Morning" (patterned after my Story Nights*). When I told Moses he needed to stay in his own bed, he protested, "But, Mom! He was being nice!" True. I know Herbie was doing it to be nice, and I wish I'd heard what stories he'd been telling.
Archie, your intense stare and wildly flailing arms tell me that you really, really want to snatch this truck ...
and stuff it into your mouth.
You'll get there, Bub. You'll get there.
I asked the kids to start sorting the clean laundry until I could get to it, and Ruby surprised me by neatly folding every single piece of clothing.
She then taught Linus how to fold socks and underwear.
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Me: Ruby! You did a fantastic job! Thank you!
Ruby: I did an even better job than you do! See, I folded every single thing!Yep. She's right.
Here's Penelope -- all dressed up to go outside.
Woo finished up his first semester.
Woo: Well, I just sent grades out.
Me: Yeah?
Woo: And I immediately got 9 emails complaining.I still can't decide if he's kidding or not.
And lastly, why are we just now discovering that Moses has freckles?
*I spend an evening a week with each kid after bedtime telling them stories about them, me and family.