Banana Language

Daphne continues to babble on in her banana language. She often responds to questions simply with "Banana!" or some mutation of the word banana. Michael asked her if she could teach him the banana language and she told him, "There's too much to cover." Recently after a stream of banana-bananoo gibberish Daphne told me "I speak all the languages... except the real ones."

Smart, Athletic, & Funny

I was looking through the recent batch of school work that Tyler brought home. On an English assignment he had to create a sentence using commas in a series with 3 or more items and he wrote: "I am smart, athletic, and funny." That gave me a good laugh. I asked him why he wrote about himself and he said he couldn't think of anything else!

Treeskirt is Back!

Our scout elf, Treeskirt, is back to keep an eye on the kids and report back to Santa about whether they have been naughty or nice. It seems to be working. Ever since Treeskirt has arrived Daphne has been keeping her room clean and making her bed every morning to gain brownie points.

December 4- Treeskirt arrived in the kitchen in a
Hello Fresh box with a note.

December 5- Poking out of the poinsettia

December 6- Relaxing on the couch wearing Daphne's husky
hoodie and draped in one of Tyler's cozy blankets

December 7- Hiding out in the liquor cabinet

December 8- Switched from liquor to wine

December 9- Marshmallow bubble bath

Penny, Hazel, and Daphne were quite thrilled to taste test the
marshmallow bubbles before breakfast

December 10- Calling attention that
we still have some ornaments to hang

December 11- Hanging out in the kitchen

Nutcracker School Performance

The 4th grade put on a really cute performance of the Nutcracker last week. Tyler was relieved that his class ended up as soldiers (boys) and mice (girls) and all he had to do was march and pretend sword fight with the mice.

Tyler is in the back on the left side.

Ryan and Tyler after the performance with the wood block
nutcrackers that they made in art class

M-I-L-K Hey!

Lately Daphne has been chanting the following at the dinner table:
        M-I-L-K
        I want milk hey!

I've been trying to get her to work 'please' into the chant somewhere.

Pet Fish?

Last month we visited a local animal shelter with the cub scouts. Our pack donated dog and cat toys the kids had made and the folks at the shelter gave us a tour. Tyler and Daphne would both love a dog and asked for one while at the shelter. Daphne particularly loves animals. I told Daphne that maybe we could get a fish. She has since mentioned it again but life has been more complicated since I broke my arm two weeks ago.

Fast forward to Sunday when we had our first girl scout meeting of the school year. Since we have some new girls, each girl introduced herself and had to say something about themselves. When they got to Daphne she squeaked, "My name is Daphne. And my mom said we could get a fish!" Then she wrinkled up her face, looked at me, and shook her fist in my direction. Everyone had a good laugh over that!

Dr. Seuss

Our little bookworm has been hooked on Dr. Seuss lately. She can't seem to get her hands on enough Dr. Seuss books.