Tomatoes

 Aldwyn

"Tomatoes have a taste that attracts me"

Raedan Game

R has come up with a new game and it starts with one person and goes around with each letter of the alphabet. Eldric decided to do the word kataroo during the game. Carrie then told E that "kataroo" actually started with a c and wasn't a word. Then A pitched in saying that it was an actual word and the name of a species of rodent  found in New Zealand and that it did start with k. I then proceeded and looking it up and because I was entirely fooled by Asmund, he then warned me that there was a silent X in it and that I should know where it is becusdr I'm an English professor. I said, drats, I was tricked by Asmund.

Winners

 Eldric: I'm going to win!

Wystan: In my opinion I'm going to win.

E: In my opinion I'm winning!

Raedan: Do you even know what opinion means?

E: It means I'm winning!

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Asmund at lunch: Mom, I want to make an everything cape! It's going to be waterproof, and fireproof, and lightningproof.

Mom: That's a strange thing for a cake.

A: No, mom, cape!

Mom: That explains better than a cake.

Later that day in the car.

A: You know mom, I want to make an everything cake.

Mom: Let me hear you pronounce cape.

A: No, no, cake! With strawberry and chocolate and . . . 

Mom laughs.

Chicken

 Eldric about the cooked chicken: The chicken looks dead. Do you know why it looks dead? Because the chicken looks brown.

Economy

Asmund: If you leave us alone we'll start our own economy.

Asmund: Can I drink coffee upstairs in my bedroom while I make weapons? 

Eldric: It's so boring to have not candy!

When Asmund blows on dandelion seeds, he says he wishes for more dandelions. He says he wishes that wish because it will probably come true.

Eldric, "I am eating this aminal."

Aldwyn, "No, amiwol. Aniwol."

The "animal" in question was a beet.

 

Raedan advice: Stop being like a dog owner and be a dog.

 

Asmund spent the morning writing a "War Oath" play contract, in order to facilitate "mindful chaos."

 

Asmund: Every culture has soup. You can't live in a culture without eating soup.

 

Raedan: Dad, can we have an eating contest?

 

Aldwyn's suggestion for this Halloween: We paint our house black, we dress up in our costumes, and we scare people.

 

Eldric: Want to hear a joke? Knock-a-knock, who's there? Banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, slip on the floor!

 

What Eldric is talking about at bedtime tonight:

A flower mouse, my snoring, how he's a lightning boy, and he can't hear my snoring in the other room because of magic tears, his stuffed animal octopussy, tentacles, suckers, sticking to things, octopus mouths, bananas slipping down the stairs, meteor caves, gecko shrinking, motorcycles, and jokes in between.

 

Eldric: Did you know I'm a thunder boy? I actually love to be shocked!

 

Asmund: Why are we talking about how Jesus died for our sins when he didn't do a very good job?

 

Aldwyn to Ruth: We have too much children in our house.

 

Aldwyn: I saw a ghost dog, for real!

Eldric: When did you see it?

Aldwyn: Five years ago.

(Of course, they just turned five.)

 

"Sneaky bouncy ball!" What Aldwyn said when he threw the ball down, it hit the ceiling then came back down and hit his head.

 

Rae: never break a pinky promise or you'll have bad luck from my fist

 

Asmund and Wystan's take aways from our constitution unit:

Wystan is glad we have free speech.

Asmund thinks Congress has too much power, and favors an anarchist utopian society of hunters and small scale agriculture.  

 

Raedan: You said we could go to Dollar Tree so we could buy sparkling lemonade. When I asked you, you said something and it was a word related to yes. It was yes, but it was not the word yes. So let's go!

 

Hello from the Etzel house, where Aldwyn is standing in his chair, waving a gnawed chicken thigh, yelling "I love bones GIVE ME BONES," while Asmund is describing broth to him as the superior method of ingestion, and calling it "bone water. "

 

  

 

 

 

   

 

Cheers

Carrie starts frying an egg

Aldwyn who declined an egg 5 mins ago: I want an egg... I want that egg... the egg you were about to eat.

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Parenting is explaining to your five year old (Aldwyn), at 7 am, just why he shouldn't hide tomatoes under the bed. 

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Raedan: You said we could go to Dollar Tree so we could buy sparkling lemonade. When I asked you, you said something and it was a word related to yes. It was yes, but it was not the word yes. So let's go!

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Raedan, playing Super Mario Cart: Cheer for me. Cheer for all my body parts!

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Eldric came home in this sweet dress:

"Dad, you know why I am wearing dis dress? It is for dancing when you marry. I am marry Thandie, dat is why I wear dis dress!"

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Funnies

 Asmund: Aldwyn, do you want to know something? 

Aldwyn: What?

Asmund: You're funny.

Aldwyn: No I'm not! I don't have a funny bone in my skin.

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Me: Has anyone seen the eggs?

Asmund: Have you tried the egg carton?

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Eldric to Aldwyn: do you remember when I scared you last night? It was so 'atastic (fantastic) for me!

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