Overheard

It's a laugh-a-minute around here.

Poor Garrett's been having allergies for the last month or so and has had a constant runny nose. So today...

Garrett (trying to sniff): Hey! I smell something. It smells like....boogers.

Overheard and another sickness

Last night Ella and Garrett were playing with their Little People sets and being kind of wild about it, and McKay walked past them on the way upstairs and intoned the following.

McKay: Caution, rogue robots. Caution, rogue robots. Caution, rogue robots.

And poor Hannah got sick over the weekend and then Ella got sick on Sunday and Monday. I really hope this darn winter is done and we can all go back to being healthy. I think Ella has been sick enough. She catches everything the kids bring home, and with 4 siblings bringing stuff home, she's had a lot to catch. (Plus she makes every cold more dramatic by turning it into an ear infection.)

Just in case you forgot how many brothers Ella has...

Her newest word is Ei-ya! (Um, yeah, you know...that karate chop word?)

She does it really well with a pirate sword in one hand. Yes, I shall try to get it on video soon.

Just my new camera HAS a video camera, but the files are frighteningly large and I have not charged the battery on my point and shoot in awhile.

But yes, Ei-ya!

Overheard

McKay, upon walking down the stairs and seeing the snow alllllll over the ground outside.

McKay: This is not spring! Spring is green and has leaves all over it!

The Daddy-Daughter sock hop

So I planned to get more pictures. These were just as we were getting Hannah ready and waiting for Darwin to come home. But, sadly, things just went crazy around this time. Garrett's been a little sick and was very whiny and sad around this time. Ella was fussy and crying and McKay kept wanting to run away to "the cave" (we've yet to find out what that is) and so soon extra time for pictures dissolved into just rushing Darwin and Hannah out the door to the dance at the school a couple minutes late.

Hannah really has been looking forward to the dance. She's been asking for weeks.

She loved dressing up.

She always loves posing for pictures.

Quite the cutie, no?

Waiting for dad...

Where could he be?

Never fear, he came along shortly after this. They had a great time and Hannah enjoyed herself quite a lot.

Mea Culpa

Ok, so it was totally not McKay's teachers who taught him.

I didn't think they would teach him to say a weird name, per se. They are totally humorous, but they really would not teach him something WRONG just to be funny. But since it was April Fools' Day I thought perhaps they were supplying him with a cute April Fools' joke.

Still...the mystery remains. Where, oh where did McKay learn who Englebert Humperdink is?

Where does he GET this stuff??

So McKay was lying up in bed after school (he said he was taking a beauty nap) and he said to me, clear as a bell:

"Hi, I'm Englebert Humperdink."

Ummmm. Huh?

Where does he GET this stuff? Where did he hear about Englebert Humperdink?

My only conclusion is his teachers maybe taught him this as an April Fools' joke?? (They ARE funny like that.)