Two interesting comments form Max

1. After preschool yesterday Max said he wanted to be General Grievous for halloween (Star Wars character shown here).

I told him he'd need a coupe more arms to pull that costume off. He thought for a moment and then replied, "I think they can do that at the hospital."

2. After preschool today, Max ran to the car super excited.
Max: "Mommy! Tomorrow we get to make necklaces out of needles!!!"
Robin: "Do you mean noodles?"
Max: "Yes, noodles!!!"

Cooper's rules of capitalizatoin

Two texts from Robin last night while she helped the kids w/ homework:

"Cooper's rules of capitalization neglect capitalizing the first word in a sentence, but always capitalizing the letter I. Bizarre child."

"One of the sentences he wrote for word study is 'easy Is an opInIon (apinyion)."

Cooper installed at Camp Cherokee!

Ready for his first week away at camp. 

"Hunting zombies" with cousin

Mohawk, shark pants, and cowboy boots. 

...Good to go. 

Cooper talking to himself as he cleared the table after supper

"...I wonder if Superman sleep-flies..."

Someday when you're smaller...

Max to Robin:  You don't really know how to do Legos.  Maybe when you are smaller you will.  Wait, a long, long time ago you've already been smaller, right? 

Robin to Max: Yes Max.  My time came and went.  It is a tragedy.

Kids are just weird...

This morning my wife and I woke to the sound of our 4yo screaming. This isn't all that unusual, so we just continued to sleep. After a while everything calmed down.

Once the rest of the morning drama was over and I was driving the other two to school I asked, "So Lillian and Cooper, what was Max screaming about this morning?"

Cooper: Oh, he was just upset because we were trying to put a blonde wig on him and wrap him up in a white furry coat.

(Note: this would have been around 6:00 in the morning)

Me: What? Why were you guys doing that to him?

Lillian: So he'd look like a Mom.

Me: Why was he supposed to look like a Mom?

Lillian: Because Cooper knew the secret password and I thought if I could convince him Max was his mother he'd trust her enough to give him the password/

Cooper: The secret password was 205347.

(Note: Max is barely 4 years old and he was supposed to guess a seemingly random six digit number)

Me: So why was Max crying?

Cooper: because he didn't want to dress up like a Mom. By the way, if we were to build a fire, it should be in the toy box in my room.

Me: What?!

Lillian: That's what the password was for. If we could get the secret password from Cooper then we could steal fire from the sun.

(So - in short, before sunrise, my two oldest dragged my youngest son out of bed ... well actually he was sleeping in a tent in the middle of his room... to dress him like a woman, have him pose as his brother's mother, and use him to extract a numerical password from my oldest boy, so that my 10 and 4 year old could steal fire from the sun and ignite their toy box)

This isn't honestly all that unusual in our house.

Lillian's "Orange" comercial

5th grade is doing a unit on advertising. Lillian decided she wanted to try her hand as it as well...

While eating popcorn on the couch last night...

Cooper:

"When I grow up I want to design houses with soft curved walls because it's the hard and angled parts I always bang my head on around here."

From Max to Robin while waiting on Santa to arrive...

Max: Mom, what do you want for Christmas?
Robin: I think a pretty pillow would be nice.
Max: Ok. I will get you a new purse, a pillow pet, and a saw. The saw is so you can cut down trees.

On our way to Gabriels 6th birthday party...

Cooper: Dad, what does it mean in the movies when someone says, "I guess my orthodontist was right. I shouldn't keep a dragon in a leather cage?"

This comment from Cooper during church Sunday...

"I always have the hardest time remembering the difference between a Cockatrice and a Manticore..."

I think Cooper was hearing a different sermon than I was.

This is what happens...

...when you take little boys shopping for bicycle helmets. 

Cooper examines sandwitch molecules

Lillian's Really Odd Cheetah Report

Lillian had to write an endangered species report for her GT class and had to supplement that report with a visual of some sort. She decided she wanted to make her visual aid a filmed "Cheetah Safari." She also insisted the characters in this movie be stark white, undecorated folded paper faces... go figure.

She had to make this during the same evening Cooper was tied up at baseball, so I had the honor of being her surreal paper-faced costar.

Text from Robin #7

"Cooper is sweet.  While I was talking with you he got Max some bandaids and put them on his hands where he fell.  He even got him some character ones. Now they are putting a dead lizard in a jar :)"

Text from Robin #6

"I have got to look up how to build a worm farm. Max is ELATED that I found a bunch while digging up weeds near the dog lot and in the depths of despair that they are crawling away"

Text from Robin #5

"Our son."

Text from Robin #4

"So, I'm in the bathroom figuring out how I'm going to get toilet paper since the kids used it all and hear a crash.  Georgia broke my water glass all over the floor.  Max is attacking Cooper upstairs.  I really am very glad you could get away.  It can be a nut house!"

Text from Robin #3

"Cooper's take on relationships, 'you have to feel the 'zing' more than once.'--why?--"because your wife might ditch you so you've got to feel it again."  -- he's planning ahead."