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Post 330: Lily talk

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I love how everything Lily talks about blends together. Much of it driven by her desire to replicate “all things Luke!”. Breakfast the other day:

What would you like?

What did Lukey have?

Tortilla with refried beans cheese and an egg on top.

(Confused)

Kinda like a egg in the whole.

I’ll have an egg in the whole.

(I start to prepare)

Can I have it sandwich style?

Well, an egg in the whole is kinda like by itself , I mean the egg is already inside the bread?

(Silence)

Ok, soft boiled then.

Daddy (confused, but I just moved forward)

And don’t cut off the bones.

Post 329: Monopoly

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Just had been sick for about a week. Actually it started with lice, which led to the Hair Whisperer (true) and on the tail end of that a stomach bug. jeez.

He loves Monopoly and what I noticed in the games we have played in the last few days is how quickly his math skills are progressing. Three days ago he didn’t understand that if I buy a property for $280, I can just put $300 in the bank and take $20 back. Now he is doing exactly that without even thinking about it.

I was never much of a monopoly player and he has beaten me three times in a row, but I wanted to say thanks to Hasbro for being there when we are home sick and needed some well deserved math lessons.

Post 328: Yellow Submarine

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Hard to downplay the incredible journey of the Yellow Submarine. It held complete fascination for me as a child, so much so that I made one of cast silver when I was about ten. Not really sure how that came about. I remember carving the “negative” out of plaster and then rounding up all the “silver” I was allowed to have, but really a bit hard to remember who smelted it how did it get poured it?? Anyway, I still have the results.

The Beatles never tried to make a “kids” album, they just made great music and some of it is very accessible to children, like the voyage of the Yellow Submarine in particular. We started singing it in the car recently so, it seemed only fitting to get Luke the Lego version (what I would have dont for THAT as a child!) for his 7th Birthday.

Its hard for me not to hold off on the movie version, because it is a marvelous, not violent, beautiful film with a smashing good soundtrack. But, all in good time, all in good time.

Because we really do do live in a yellow submarine!