Soundbites

Bea: You comb the back. You make it flat. If you comb it like that, you don't look like a mom.
Mom: How?
Bea: combs mom's hair over face
Mom: What do I look like?
Bea: A monster.


Nathan: wearing the tiger ears he went to sleep with I was a tiger all night.


Nathan: perhaps contemplating war, tragedy and life choices What if a man who didn't have a son and didn't marry someone was a star war and someone tried to kill him and his leg got broken off. THen he wouldn't go back, he would just go find a house to live in and someone to marry... or just live in a house by himself.


Bea: I love roasted seeds! I love roasted goo!
Mom: You do?
Bea: Ye-ah! You put celery and pepper and all the things and its so good. You never had that?
Mom: No.
Bea: Nana had that at her house.
Mom: Roasted goo?
Bea: Yeah.


Nathan: What if this whole place stayed dark and all the gloomin' eyes were on this place?


Nathan: looking at a Christmas wreath Look a coral reef!


Bea: Do you know string cheese or pombees?
Mom: I know string cheese but not pombees.
Bea: Oh. You take celery. You put it in water, soak it, put it in the cups. There!


Nathan: while discussing gifts I know since Papa Mike loves airplanes we could give him airplanes. We could give him a whole bunch of paper to make airplanes. Its like how we made slime (jello) from our box. We could give him the ones not already made.


Nathan: while Grammie, Papa and Mom are cleaning up dinner and Nathan and dad are "working" on putting together a new toy crane Why are you all in the kitchen when dad and I are in the living room WORKING!?


Nathan: scattered throughout the day, Nathan often tells everyone what his sister loves Bea loves purple. Bea loves toys. Bea loves dolls. Bea loves cranes. Bea loves orange because I loved orange and then she loved orange. Bea loves puppies. Bea loves cake.

Rainy Days

Writing!

Nathan has seemed to know some letters before but wasn't very interested in writing. I thought he probably knew how to write an N, but not any others. Then one night, he suddenly wanted to write his name, mom, dad, mimi and Katherine. It was amazing to see him know all these letters!

Halloween Costumes... no pictures please.

Nathan and Bea both made cars out of boxes. Bea was a ballerina in a car. Nathan was going to be a person in a car but abandoned the car (next to him) and just decided to be "puppy guy." We had the pleasure of trick or treating with our neighbors Red Ridding Hood and Tinkerbell.

Biking on Ridge

Soundbites

Nathan: every night after stories and before bed "I'm flip flop tired. You have to fork lift me into bed."

Nathan: his positive response to any question such as Do you have your shoes on? "Yep-I-do!" or sometimes "Yes-aroo!"

Bea: looking at a nectarine "I want a nectar dreeeeeam"

Bea: singing while her dad plays guitar "Louder! Louder! LOUDER!"
Nils: "What should I play next?"
Bea: "I love my head"
Nils: "How does that song go?"
Bea: "I love my head, I love my head, I love my head"

Another Beatrice original... "My nose is washed. My nose is washed. My nose is washed. My dog's nose is washed (or maybe lost)"

Ponytails

Bea has been fascinated with ponytails for a long time. At last, her hair is long enough for several ponytails. Bea was not satisfied with one or two... we had three on this inaugural ponytail day!