I have heard on good authority that there is a medical reason why kids up to a certain age do not feel that awful, sickly, nausea when doing this:
God sure works in mysterious ways.
Lily
Post 349: New Scam
A new scam?
The kids have always had a thing for playing in the front yard. It must be a combination of it being “out of bounds” because we prefer to be out front with them and that they love interacting with the world/people who pass by.
There have been many times that we have said no to them asking.
The other day there was a new approach to asking that I thought was quite ingenious.
Luke: “dad, can I go out front to be in the beautiful sunshine?”
Dad: “uh, um, of course”
Sixty seconds later
Lily: “Dad, can i go out front and be in the beautiful sunshine?”
Dad: “yes”
Beyond being charmed, the event solidified a belief that Luke and Lily contrive, practice there methods of getting what they want.
Post 347: What Lily wants
Two things Lily did today that epitomize her state of being.
We were at the smoothy store, there was a plate of chocolate chip cookies on the counter and Lily asked if she could have one. I said we could split one. She then asked all of us, including the young lady behind the counter which cookie had the most chocolate chips in it. We all looked and we ALL agreed on a specific cookie that indeed had the most chips in it. Lily looked at us all, looked at the plate and proceeded to point to a cookie on the opposite side of the plate and say, “I want that one!”
Later that same day we were at Whole Foods and Lily asked for a rubber band, she collects them and does some pretty cool things with them at home I will attest, the guy at Whole Foods said, I have something even better than a rubber band, do you want to be a part of our kids club and get free stuff? Yes was the overwhelming answer. The man produced a card (always a very attractive thing for Lily and Luke), and explained that you can have a FREE fuji apple, small milk or oatmeal raisin cookie just by presenting the card to the cashier. Kids were all excited and we were about to leave when Lily says:
“Can I please have a rubber band?”
Yes, of course, you can.
Post 346: New computer
For a person who has taken every opportunity to disassemble and reassemble my own person computer, it is with great admiration I introduce to you Lily’s first computer.
She made it herself, found the cut pieces of wood. I drove the nail in to make the pieces hold together after she admitted it was too hard for her.
It is a laptop in case you are wondering. She had a whole bunch of nails on the “keyboard”, which I thought was quite nice, but later removed them due to design issues.
Taking pre-orders immediately
