TWENTY-FOUR

 

V has been quite interested in helping me cook lately. She plated this lovely salad for us this week. 

2022 week twenty-four

T- "When I took a picture of your dinner it looked like a pot of sewage water." Charming, Theo...

We got an ENORMOUS tomato from our garden. It easily weighs a pound. 

Matt's dad is using a well-worn car he's dubbed "The Grand Prairie" for a while until his car is fixed. Matt and some unnamed accomplices helped decorate the GP by putting bullet hole stickers all over it one night. Poor Gary was late to work picking off their prank sticker by sticker. 

Matt went out of town for a long boys weekend. While he was away we had a very fun day in the Asian strip mall. First stop was the Japanese book store, then the Japanese dollar store and "life supplies" (I believe?) store, then 85 C for sweet treats and finally 7 Leaves for the best Boba yet, and finally no trip there is complete without a stroll through 99 Ranch. In the meat aisle I made them try to guess all the animals and animal parts. V said it was her favorite game. She was so proud when she figured out frog legs. No one got tripe. No one should ever get tripe.  Then it was off to Ikea. V kept trying to sit on the furniture because her legs were "worn out from all the fun."

Matt and the boys ate tasty treats, played games, won ridiculous prizes and generally missed their wives and families terribly, I'm told. 

Here they were at the "Oldest Road in America." I didn't know that Oklahoma held that honor until now. 

Aaaaand your weekly dose of Theo stealing my phone for "hilarious" bathroom selfies. 

He insisted I take this photo of some of his geodes and then insisted I share it with everybody. So here you are, everybody. I'm sure your lives are made all the better for seeing this. Ah, my little boy and his shiny rocks. 

Often when V whines "Mama!" I will respond enigmatically with "ooOOOooOOOO." She was annoyed that I hadn't just made it up to be annoying when Travis likewise responded "ooOOOooOOOOO" to her whined "Mama!" and wanted to know how both of us knew about this annoying response. One morning I put on Bohemian Rhapsody so she could understand the reference. I was singing and dancing to the song in the kitchen while they were eating breakfast -spatula as a microphone, and all that. At the end I said, "I bet you wish you were that cool." To which, my darling well-mannered delight replied, "I'm glad I'm not."  It gets so much more fun when they get older and funnier. 

I told the kids for a special treat while Papa was away that I would let them watch a special "Mama Movie" with me. So I put on Pride and Prejudice. 10 minutes in Theo asks, "Why is this such a girl movie? There are just girls everywhere." By the end he was captivated and begrudgingly admitted, "The music and everything is just so beautiful." V on the other hand astutely declared that it was "The BEST movie EVER!" That is so.