Hanging Out

The group

This is such a Nate face

This is how we roll (and yes, the people looked terrified when we walked into Rocky's)

My super cute family--Nate was uber-irritated and didn't want his picture taken (obviously) and Abbie was, well, distracted (or something)

We've just been doing a lot of hanging out with friends lately. We've been playing at parks and friend's houses. Nate started an art class today at the Monroe Street Fine Arts Center. He is learning about Monet's Waterlilies and will be learning how to paint them for the next week. He cried when I dropped him off today, but was very happy and excited to go back tomorrow when I picked him up. He is great. Some funny things the kids have said... "Can I get a corn-on-the-dog?" --Abbie when asking for a corn dog "Wouldn't it be cool if church were in Disney World?" -Nate "Yeah, I'd be a princess." -Me "I'd be the King." -Nate "I'd be a dragon so I could eat you!" -Abbie While Alan was telling them a story, Pirate Cinderella, tonight, I was made aware of some interesting variations from the original fairytale. Alan said that Cinderella's fairy god mermaid turned her dog into the captain for her speedboat, to get to the ball (on a pirate ship). He asked them what the pirate's name was. Nate and Abbie both shouted, "CAPTAIN DOGNUTS!!" No, not donuts, that's dognuts. Then they both burst out laughing hysterically. Apparently this was the name that Alan gave the captain when he first told the story and the kids loved it. Later, Alan was saying how Cinderella looked at her watch and saw that it was almost midnight. Nate said, "Her watch had a picture of a dog with nuts on his head." No, he doesn't know why that's absolutely hilarious to Mommy who's laughing her head off in the chair. Abbie has hit this phase where she doesn't want to wear dresses. Okay, it's been going on for a while, but it's gotten very extreme. Anyways, I asked her the other day after trying to get her to wear one, why she didn't want to wear the dress: "Because it has a penis," was her reply. Nice, Abbie. Nice. That's all that I can think of now. I had my own good quote this afternoon at Melissa's house--Sorry Michelle, I'm sharing. We were eating ice cream after lunch and Michelle said that she wanted to try the Cookie Dough M&M ice cream that Nate had picked out, after her bowl of Vanilla. I told her to go for it. She made some comment about how I wasn't helping her lose weight and I said, "That's right. The fatter Michelle gets, the smaller I look." I'm such a good friend. I love you, Michelle! Goodnight!