Claire: Good night, Harper. Happy birthday.
Harper: Thank you, Mama. I love you.
Rich: What about Papa?
Harper: Happy birthday, Papa.
Sleeping Beauty
Harper asked for Sleeping Beauty. It took me a while to figure out why the balloon-maker gave Sleeping Beauty’s breasts breasts.
Chimeras
We’ve been working on Chimeras for quite a while now, so it’s good to finally have something to show for it…
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After filming the video, Conrad looked at us and asked, “So, are we getting any money for this?” I told him that it was a fair question — and a good question — but that he wasn’t getting paid. He paused for a second and asked a follow-up question, “Then why are we doing it?”
Fresh Air
If the car is parked in the sun for a bit and it gets a little warm inside, Harper urgently tells us to turn on the air conditioner by saying, “Turn on the fresh air.” I’ve always liked the cooler and wetter climate of the Pacific Northwest, and, apparently Harper is a fan as well. On a recent trip to Utah, we walked outside and Harper started moaning, “Turn on the fresh air.”
I’m assuming she meant getting into a car, then turning on the air conditioner.
Mona Lisa
I saw this in Julia’s room and asked her what the story was. She replied, “My teacher told me no one knew if Mona Lisa was happy or sad — I think she’s just hungry.”
Harper’s Princess Phase
Harper recently saw Sleeping Beauty and really liked it. There is one problem: she calls it “Pissin Booty.” It also turned her on to a whole world of other pissin things. She wanted pissin jammies, she wants to watch “pissin” movies, and she made the desktop on Claire’s phone a “pissin.”
Essay Contest
Weston’s class was asked to write an essay about a school rule they would like to change. This was Weston’s submission…
A Type of Rodent
Julia: On our hike we saw a skeleton!
Rich: What kind of skeleton?”
Julia: I think it was a stoat, but I’m not 100% sure.
Rich: A what?
Julia: A stoat…but I’m not sure.
Rich: What’s a stoat?
Julia: You know, a stoat, S-T-O-A-T. It’s a type of rodent.
Rich: What did I tell you about using words I don’t know? Just say “rodent.”
A finity
Conrad was doing a bunch of addition problems to impress everyone. He said, “A thousand plus a thousand is two thousand. Infinity plus infinity is two finity.
Dragonflies
Today Julia saw two dragonflies “marrying.”