THIRTY-NINE

 

Buddy had a touch of a virus this week and missed two days of school. Salem kept him good company during his naps. 

2021 week thirty-nine

Salem also made a convenient excuse for Matt to not make the bed.

Salem and Theo fight over the bugs Theo catches in his little bug habitat. Wherever Theo tries to keep it out of his reach, Salem finds it, knocks it down and tries to scratch his way in to the grasshoppers and moths. Then Theo cries and gets angry. 

There is always one particularly spooky house on our street and the kids love to go past it and scare themselves. There is one rather awful prop this year and the kids are so obsessed. The first night we saw it they walked up to it and it moved and its eyes glowed red. They ran back to us screaming and V cried a bit. Every night after that they beg to go back and try to work up their courage enough to touch it. You can see V pushing Theo in front of her... They finally touched it again tonight and it didn't move. They were so disappointed that they cried. Haha. Poor things. Being brave takes so much energy. 

Arguing after a failed attempt:

Quotes:

Theodore

"Salem scratched the head off of my praying mantis! I want to get rid of him! ...totally."

Me- "He just likes bugs. Just like you."

Theo- "NO! He is a destroyer of bugs!"

Part of a poem he was making up for me "The dolphins jump on the ocean waves. Is the ocean a trampoline for dolphins?"

After a particularly raucous bathroom visit, "The toilet looks like a firework of poop!" 

V

on repeat all evening "I caught some grasshoppers the first one is named Ingerpaw, because it is invisible, green, and pops up everywhere. The second one is named Simberwhi because it is simple, brown, and white. Ingerpaw. Ingerpaw. Simberwhi. Simberwhi. I caught grasshoppers! My grasshoppers are named Ingerpaw and Simberwhi... etc."