(while getting ready for school in the morning)
Dad: RJ! Where are you? Time to get dressed.
RJ: (hiding under umbrella) There is no RJ here!
Dad: Okay. Whoever is under that umbrella must get dressed now!
RJ: There is no umbrella here!
Dad: What are you then?
RJ: I’m a talking mushroom! Boop boop! Hello!
(RJ walks in with a mesh bag over his head)
RJ: I’m a helping robot. I do everything you say!
Dad: I LOVE THIS ROBOT!!!
… (later)
Dad: So, Robot, what do you do for fun?
RJ: We play robot games. Robot hide and seek. Robot chasing. Switch on switch off.
Dad: And do you have to eat food?
RJ: Yes. I am hungry.
Dad: What do you eat?
RJ: (deviously) Only robot lollypops and robot chocolate.
Dad: Bad news, Robot. We don’t have those, anything else?
RJ: (sighing) Sometimes we can eat robot peanut butter sandwiches.
Our family has gotten larger by two. Bella and Rhino came home with us on the weekend, and while still a little sore from a recent (snip) operation, the two ladies were full of vim and vigour. Actually, they probably have a little too much vim, but so do the kids, so it’s probably an even match.
The kids named the ferrets before they had even arrived. LR named Bella and RJ named Rhino.
Someone else: You can’t call your ferret Rhino… That’s a boy’s name!
RJ: There are girl rhinos too, you know!
(Score yet another point for RJ… You tell ‘em, little man.)
Rhino and Bella are pleased to make your acquaintance.
(LR has weekly spelling tests, so we review the words a couple of times during the week at home.)
Dad: Okay. Time for spelling practice… First word, ‘Sight’.
LR: That’s not right dad. That’s the second last word.
Dad: I know. I’m doing them out of order so it’s more difficult.
LR: (sighing) Okay. How about we start at the end and go backwards?
Dad: I guess that’ll work… ‘Right’.
LR: Done.
Dad: ‘Sight.’
LR: (writing furiously) Yes, yes. Then ‘might’.
Dad: ‘Few’
LR: (angrily) Dad stop giving me the answers! It’s cheating if you tell me the words!
LR: (returns to writing) … ‘Four’.. ‘Where’… ‘Year’… ‘Know’… That’s it!
Dad: Yep, perfect.
(She had spelled everything correctly, in exact reverse order from the original list, completely from memory.)
On the weekend, Jo brought her new puppy China over for a visit. She’s a 5 week old Shar-Pei who was abandoned by her original mother. It looks like Jo’s doing a great job in her place.
LR loved it, but had a bit of a hard time slowing down enough to let China keep up.
LR gave China LOTS of cuddles.
China gives Jo a big slobbery kiss.
(while at a friends fairy themed birthday party)
Fairy Leader: (enthusiastically) What’s your fairy name?
E: (excited) Fairy E!
Fairy Leader: And what’s your fairy name?
M: (excited) Fairy M!
Fairy Leader: And you! What’s your fairy name?
RJ: (excited) King Ladybug!
Fairy Leader: But what’s your fairy name?
RJ: (grumpy) King Ladybug. Just King Ladybug. I’m not a fairy!
All bow before King Ladybug!
The King surveys his fairy infested domain.
(while putting away the remainder of the Halloween stuff in our garage)
RJ: (playing with two giant tarantulas used during Halloween) This is Bromley, and this is Snyder. They’ll be showing us around today.
Dad: I’m putting some music on.
RJ: The scary Halloween music? That’s a good idea.
Dad: No, something else today… What do you think?
RJ: (starts grooving) Hey… This is… funky… The good kind of funky.
Dad: Yeah, it’s pretty good.
RJ: (suddenly stops dancing around) It’s got funky guitars!!!!!
(launches into a massive air guitar solo ending with “rock-n-roll hands”)Dad: (amazed) RJ… What was that!?
RJ: Guitars!
Dad: And where did you learn that from?
RJ: Mum showed me. You have to do it for the guitar songs.
(while packing school lunches in the kitchen)
RJ: (blocking doorway with his arms) Watch out! Laser beams here! You can’t get through!
Dad: Hey RJ, where do you get all your laser beams from?
RJ: Not me! I didn’t put them there. The bad guys did.
Dad: Riiiight. So where do they get their laser beams from?
RJ: The Bad Guy Shop. We can’t go there.
Dad: Why not?
RJ: You need a disguise. Then you sneak in and then growl. Grrrrr.
Dad: Then they’ll let us buy stuff?
RJ: Yes. Then we can get our own laser beams… and a cannon. If we put it out in our big tree, it can shoot the bad guys and stop them from putting in more laser beams.
Bad guys not welcome here
Mum went off to camp to visit LR for the evening. RJ and I had a big afternoon playing secret agents, jumping on the trampoline, mucking about at the beach and having getting dinner at a restaurant.
Towards the end of the meal, RJ grabbed the drinks menu, opened it and started reading.
RJ: Hmmm… Look at that…
… That’s interesting.
… Wow. I didn’t know that!
Dad: RJ. What are you reading???
RJ: This magazine. They left it here for us.
Dad: What is it about?
RJ: All sorts of things. There is a story about a party that they had.
Dad: What kind of party?
RJ: Just a birthday party. It’s not very interesting.
Dad: Is there an interesting story in there?
RJ: Yes. It’s about dragons.
Dad: Cool. What does it say?
RJ: Dragons have enormous teeth and a big tail. Some of them live in the ocean. They have very sharp teeth and they eat meat… but not people meat.
Dad: What kind of meat do they eat?
RJ: Oh you know, sheep, cows and horses and stuff.
Dad: Anything else about dragons in there?
RJ: They have a picture of a knight who had to kill a dragon. It was very dangerous, but he had a sword and shield with him.
Dad: Why did he have to kill the dragon?
RJ: The king told him to. It was eating all the sheep and making the people mad. (goes back to reading the menu)
Dad: … Anything else in there?
RJ: No. That’s the end.
RJ can tell you a thing or two about dragons.
LR head off to her first school camp yesterday. A lot of other kids have their parents coming along, but LR insisted that we were absolutely not welcome and should stay at home. Sunday afternoon was spent packing and getting everything ready. As usual, we’re way more worried about this than she is, but we’re trying to be brave.
(while dropping her off at school)
Mum: Okay LR, it’s time for me to go.
LR: Okay mum! I’m going to have a great adventure now. See you! (waves goodbye and runs off)
Mum and LR get all her things sorted for camp.
More after the link.
