Dookie! Dookie!

Today I left zefrank.com open on my computer. While I was busy doing chores, my son got on the computer and started playing with the "game" where you request gifts from Santa. I guess I should have been a bit more aware of what was going on, because now I have a 4 yr old running around the house saying "Dookie! Dookie!" and "The ability to say penis without laughing. PENIS! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I told my son that if we leave the house, he can't go around saying "penis" to everyone, because some people don't like that. With no pause at all, he looked at me with innocent eyes, and said, "But, Mommy, I HAVE a penis, LOOK! There's nothing wrong with it!"

I am doomed if we leave the house any time in the next week.

I can pick up anything!

When I was your dad...

Zed, my 4 yr old son, has been on a strange kick for about the past month, and occasionally insists that he used to be my father. He's told me that my other two kids were at that point MY sisters, that they didn't fight as much as they do now, and that my husband was also part of the family, but he's never said how.

Just a few minutes ago, Zed was sitting and watching some science show on TV with me, while we both suffer from some flu going around, when suddenly he turned to me and said,

"When you were a kid, and I was your dad, if you stayed home sick, we sat in the back and made ice cream together."

I wasn't sure what to say about that, so I asked him if it was fun, and he said "Yep! I was a good dad and we had fun."

Then he left the room.

Guinevere gets a new look

Um... yeah... I had a reason for making this, but I'm not going into it right now. Let me know what you think!

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Tavia Gets Her Ears Pierced

Today Octavia decided to get her ears pierced while we were shopping, and we just happened to have the video camera with us.

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I'm Not Done Eating

Recently we bought a naked ken-type doll at a thrift store near our house... this wouldn't be too spectacular, except the doll appears to be modeled to look like Jesus. Almost as soon as we got him in the house, our 5 yr old put a fancy Barbie dress onto Jesus, so now he was no longer the awe-inspiring "Naked Jesus", complete with a themesong my husband created, but instead has earned the name "Crossdressing Jesus" (or Chucky Cheezus if you ask our 3 yr old).

The other night at dinner, our 5 yr old suddenly got up from the table, and one of us asked her what she was doing...

"I'm not done eating, but I'm trying to find Jesus!"

It takes a lot to weird out any of my kids...

... but it has finally happened, and I was there to witness it.

My 5 yr old daughter was on the school playground after school. She very emphatically hates boys, but the only other kids out there were three boys from her class. The small group played tag for about 20 minutes before one of the little boys walked away from the group to where my daughter was playing on her own...

boy: I have to tell you a secret

girl: what?

boy: I love you more than cheese sticks and I'll let you catch me when we play tag.

I don't think I've ever seen her look more smug and repulsed at the same time before. You could tell that she liked the compliment, but that the "ew, it's coming from a BOY" impulse was too strong to ignore. He offered to tell her another secret, but she looked at him like he'd just gone off the deep end, said, "no, I don't think so", and ran away.