drunken midgets – Page 12 – Rich and Beautiful

June 25, 2009 drunken midgets, King Con Post a Comment

Happy Birthday

No, it’s not my birthday.

Claire came out of Conrad’s room one night, rolled her eyes, and said, “Happy birthday. Now good night!” I asked Claire why she wished him a happy birthday. It turns out she was simply returning the good wishes. Conrad had wished her a happy birthday….and since that unbirthday, each night, Conrad wishes us a happy birthday before bed. I suspect he knows it’s not anyone’s birthday because he says it with a wry smile. To demonstrate Conrad’s influence in the family, before bed, we all now say, “Good night. Happy birthday.” Good night, Weston. Happy birthday. Good night, Julia. Happy birthday. Good night, Claire. Happy birthday.

June 17, 2009 drunken midgets, King Con Post a Comment

How Polite is little Conman?!?

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Conrad and I are playing swords….

Con: Pretend that I cut off both your legs.

Rich: I love how you’re so polite when asking if you can cut off my legs.

Con: Pleeeeeaaase, can I cut off both your legs?

May 25, 2009 drunken midgets, Good Ju-Ju 4 Comments

Julia’s Joke

Claire told Julia her manners were impeccable. Julia told us she wanted to make a joke. She said there is a woodpecker who saw a tree that looked impeccable. She’s six. That’s a pretty good joke. Is Julia growing up? Are all of her future jokes going to make sense? This is so sad.

May 25, 2009 drunken midgets, King Con Post a Comment

Conrad Hygiene

Lately, Conrad and Weston have been very interested in superheroes. As a result, Conrad now gives everything a superhero name. And…because of recent events, Conrad is very concerned about his “bat boogies” and washing his hands so he doesn’t catch the “Slime Flu”.

May 25, 2009 King Con, richie Post a Comment

Rich gets in trouble

Background: Rich and Conrad were roughhousing. Conrad banged his foot on something…

Conrad: Papa hurt me.

Claire: Should we put him in time-out?

Conrad: No. He’d escape.

April 5, 2009 Art, drunken midgets, Good Ju-Ju 5 Comments

Orange Camouflage

Today, Julia drew a cheeto.

cheeto I promise to start posting about the other kids.

April 2, 2009 Art, drunken midgets, Good Ju-Ju 5 Comments

Julia’s Anatomy Study

julia's anatomy drawing

April 2, 2009 drunken midgets, Wild West'n 2 Comments

Weston loves you

weston1 Claire and the kids were hanging out with our neighbors the other day. When it was time to leave, Weston waved and said, “I love you.” When Weston sees kids from the neighborhood across the street, same thing — “I love you.” He gets a great reaction and I wonder what would happen if an adult tried it. Next time I see someone I know, I’m going to wave and yell, “I love you.” …No I’m not.

March 24, 2009 Art, drunken midgets, Good Ju-Ju 11 Comments

Llama Dog

I asked Julia to draw a dog (a French bulldog — not a poodle!), and she draws a llama skeleton….and, as always, it looks hungry.

llama-dog

February 10, 2009 Art, rich and beautiful, richie 2 Comments

Trust. It’s the basis…

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I’d like to think Claire trusts me with MOST things. When she sent me to Oregon to find a place to live, she sent my brother along to be sure I didn’t do anything…well, not bad necessarily…just weird. Her criteria was a good school district. Mine was a big tree or a funky space that I could make into my man cave. One of the places we looked at had about a zillion trees that were each about a zillion feet tall. If one of them fell, it would easily break the poor little house into a zillion pieces.

ps – The title of this post comes from the movie Some Kind of Wonderful.