Willie
and Teddy's Excellent Adventure
Another busy week. Teddy had "crazy hat or hair day" at school and a Harvest Party and also Boo Ridge. Willie and Papa dropped off and picked up Teddy and Mommy from Boo Ridge because we got a late start that night and parking would have taken another 20 minutes off the already short evening of Boo Ridge. Teddy proved his proficiency at the shell game -- quick eyes!
I (Willie) have been bombarded by quizzes -- Latin roots, adding and subtracting fraction, characterization in "A Wrinkle In Time," the capitols of southeast Asian countries...it just goes on and on. Can someone tell me why these things are important? (Well, except you, Mom...you can stop telling me already about why Latin roots are important.)
We're back in doughnut-land today, after Hebrew school, hooray! And best of all, mommy paid for the doughnuts because was my (Willie) half birthday! And Teddy's got his bionicles and legos back so he's been happy all afternoon about that. And best best best of all was that mommy made me (willie again) spaezten, and I ate nearly the ENTIRE batch!
Mommy and Papa have raked the leaves, and WE HAVEN'T, woo hoo! We asked why we had to rake leaves and Papa said to earn our keep. We don't understand this because we still got food and clothing and beds and heat and eceltricity and everything.
We had such a good day yesterday that we all went out to Canton Wonton for dinner....but.... it was closed for vacation!!! We decided to try a different noodle house and that was a challenging experience, good and bad. Good because they had the kinds of things we usually like. Bad because the noodles were kind of dry and didn't have enough sauce, so we asked for more sauce but they brought the wrong sauce which made the noodles taste GROSS. Good because Teddy was interested to try curried chicken at a new place. Bad because as soon as he saw it on the table he said BLEAH and didn't want any. But good again because Papa said it was really good and Willie tried it and liked it but it was a bit too spicy for him, but then Teddy trie the sauce and liked it. So Willie quietly ate plain rice and some of mommy's soup noodles and Teddy ate curried rice and plain rice and Papa ate the curry and our leftover bad sauce noodles that no one else would eat. (Mommy just sat quietly and ate her soup.)
Hooray for 'Crazy Hair and Hat Day' at school. We food colored my head with green, purplish olive and blue food colorings, even though I'm not food, though I still catch papa nibbling me now and then because he says I'm so sweet and tasty. It went really well with my wicked wedgie woman costume I wore to Boo-Ridge on Friday.
We've washed me and my hair a few times since and it's still purplish olive on one side and I have a Vulcan green blooded tint on my skin that makes me look like Mr. Spock without the pointy ears.
No green or purple hair for me, or other costume for that matter. I keep saying I'll work on my costume and I haven't gotten around to it yet, but halloween is early dismissal so I still have time.
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What do you get when you mix one seven-year-old with a marshmallow?
Mhyew oomoossoot goohsahhooot...
A HAPPY SEVEN-YEAR-OLD!
Ta da, it's FOXY GRANDPA! Why's that funny?
Okay, okay, here's another one.
I have a tail! A tale? NO! A TAIL...SEE?
Oh ya? I've got two bottoms. Uh oh, that makes me a B$@# Head. Whoops! Editor--strike that last comment from the record. I object.
That's it--I'm staying sad for the rest of this episode. UDU POTS!
BWA HA HA! Who could stay sad for long when being tickled by my favorite 3rd-cousin-in-law! Good luck on your midterm cousin O!
And when we are not making each other crazy, we even sometimes still play together, but this game didn't get finished before bedtime unfortunately. Papa almost vacuumed the money, but he noticed it on the carpet at the last possible second.
Mmmm, liquid ice cream. SLURRRRRRPPPPP!
And now time for the demolition derby. In this corner, we have the Teddy's Torture Truck. In the other corner, we have Willie's Wild Whammer! Let the meanest truck win!
CRASH! CRUNCH! KERBLOOIE!!
These are my (Teddy's) bionicles made out of K'nex. Willie thinks the real ones are cooler, but what does he know.
The shower floor is finally cemented down. Cutting the little marble tiles to fit the drain was the trickiest part. Normally, one would start tiling in the corner and work their way across the shower floor, but papa did not want to take chances with where the tile would hit the drain, so he did it the hard way.
He's on a roll folks. He started on the bathroom floor right after the shower. A normal person would start from the back wall and work their way backward out of the room, but he wanted the tile to line up with the doorway a certain way, so he started at the doorway, and worked his way in. The problem is that he couldn't walk on the tile when the thinset was wet, so he has had to tile the floor in 4 stages, letting each stage dry for 48 hours before moving in further to the room. He only has the toilet area in the back corner to do at this point, and that will happen tuesday.
Again, papa had to cut tiles to precisely fit the doorjam. Some knucklehead (cough--papa--cough) put too much self levelling compound down on the floor so the tiles could not be slipped under the door frames. Then the very same knucklehead thought that all he would have to do to fix it was remove some of the compound with a chisel. That's when he remembered that there is the electric floor heating element running under the door frame embedded in the levelling compound. Luckily, he only knicked the outer casing of the wiring and didn't actually compromise the whole thing. Phew!
More cut up hex tiles. So there you have it. The master bath is getting done. No more disparaging stuff can be said about papa, except maybe about his spelling.
Sukkot came and went. We got to eat in the sukkah a few times, but mostly it was raining. Now the race is on to see if Papa can take down the sukkah before spring.
It's the highway to oblivion! Let all who travel upon it be very afraid.
Be afraid space shuttle occupants, for you are about to meet your maker. Actually, that is not altogether true as the occupants are a battery and a motor, and their make is in China somewhere.
Not happy birthday, papa, even though these 'worms in dirt' cupcakes made us very happy! 
Yessir, that's a big fat juicy worm--looks like he needs his head bitten off!
And a cake to boot! When we get as old as Papa [23 by some accounts] we're going to have multiple birthday treats. Willie is already thinking that his tricolor mousse will be improves by dirt and worms.
It's been getting kind of cold outside, so Papa lit the fireplace. We were complaining because even on its lowest setting, it was kind of too hot to play legos in front of, but reading in front of it seems to be okay.
Now scram! We're trying to read here.
Okay, one smile, then beat it. Thank you.
It's the tower of mini probes! Me and Willie built this space ship that has a huge section for mini probes, and whenever a guy falls into the mini probe area, the mini probes go kind of crazy and run the guy over repeatedly. It's a design feature.
Hey you, it's not polite to take pictures of guys eating, if you did make the cookies, so put that camera down and get me some more cookies, quick like. C'mon, stir your stumps.