Beach!
Hmm, maybe it was just that one thing. Well, we went to the beach today, and everyone got a little burned besides Zane. I took the kids to the store tonight to buy milk and so on, and impulse bought a hat for each of them. Houston was walking with me, wearing the hat enthusiastically, and a pretty lady was walking by and Houston looked at her and totally lifted his hat right off in an astonishingly elegant way!!! It was incredible. The lady looked at me grinning widely and i asked "Did he really just lift his hat to you?" and she was like "Sure did!" and i exclaimed "So polite!" Houston said "It's Singing in the Rain!" Awesome. You don't need to read that "awesome" so loud.
Katrina liked her hat too, but both kids were so giddy with the new possession that every stupid little thing they saw they asked me to get. I lectured them about the fact that we don't have a lot of money, and getting new hats is such a special treat, and we're not going to get anything else that is a treat. So please stop thinking that you can simply have whatever you want! Houston: "Can we get that baby juice???" I gazed at him incredulously, and he did his hide-his-face-in-his-arms thing that you can probably visualize if you know him. Imagine a slug's eye when you touch it.
Finally, Katrina sprawled face down in the checkout aisle floor and declared "My dead!" Oh, finally for real, Houston was clambering around in the little toy car thing they have on the front of shopping carts at Family Fare (on Leonard and Fuller -- totally my favorite store ever) and suddenly i heard a panicked voice: "Daddy! DADDY!!! HELP ME!!!" and he had somehow gotten himself upside down in the cart with his arms pinned awkwardly above his head and he couldn't move. Poor kid. Full size picture of Zane crying on the beach if you're interested.
Um…i didn’t get burned.
Hurrah! Singing in the Rain is an awesome movie. It’s taught our kids so many things. How to dance, that tap dancing is cool, to tip your hat, singing….
-- karen - 30 May '07 - 22:08