(while reading stories before bed)
Dad: … that the most likely reason of all, may have been that his heart was two sizes too small…
RJ: That’s why he was so mean.
Dad: Yep. That’s definitely why the Grinch was so mean.
RJ: His heart wasn’t big enough to push all the blood around. He wasn’t getting enough blood in his brain.
Dad: That’ll put anyone in a bad mood.
(in the car on the way to school)
Dad: (starting an imagination game) So you two head down to the park one day and there’s something strange there that you’ve never seen before.
RJ and LR discuss exploring it, identifying that it’s an alien rocket ship, and finding the door.
Dad: You can’t find a door handle on the outside.
LR: So we run home and get some saws and come back.
RJ: And we grab an axe too!
LR and RJ: And we SMASH and CHOP the door open and run inside and steal the spaceship and fly it home!!!
(After finishing the last scene of Romeo and Juliet during bedtime reading…)
LR: So she just stabbed herself?!
Mum: Yeah.
LR: Well, that was stupid!
Mum: Mmmm?
LR: He’s just a boy! Let him drink poison. Who cares?!
Mum: Well, she really loved him.
LR: There are lots of boys.
Mum: True. Pretty stupid.
Maybe we’ll skip the romantic tragedies for a little while…
Pictures taken during the last half of August: Lego adventures, frog hunting, Dad goes to Canberra, trampoline time and some stories.
Rescue 1 and Rescue 2 are on a mission to save the world!
LR shows us some of the features of Rescue 1.
RJ takes Mum through some of the critical features of Rescue 2.
Some emergency repairs are needed for Rescue 2.
RJ and LR went looking for one of our back-yard frogs.
We can hear it, but we can't see it anywhere!
Dad went to Canberra for two days. This is Parliament House.
Dad's cousin Jo took him to this place for dinner. They had the best hamburgers there!
LR explains the workings of the world to RJ.
Many days end with lots of bouncing on the trampoline. Get rid of some of that energy, kids!
Time for some stories before bed. Apparently, there's a hippopotamus on the roof.
