Goodbye, Old Green Thing

OLeif was getting Puck dressed in overalls for the morning and teaching him how to count his little vacuums.
“One vacuum,” said OLeif.
“One,” Puck repeated.
“Two.”
“Two.”
“What comes next?”
“Pants!”
It was finally time to give up the “old green thing”, as OLeif called it. The Honda. OLeif and Collette dropped it off at seminary for the little family from Argentina who had the baby with the “huge blue eyes”, according to OLeif.
Then there were a few hours at the house while OLeif ran some errands, Collette caught up on paperwork, and Puck napped.
Sometime in the late afternoon, Hansel and Gretyl came to play. This rose the volume of the house by several watts of mega-ness. Doors slammed with force enough to register 9.0 on the richter scale. Hansel got a supposed “fake” smash in the head with a baseball bat by his sister. And fifty Webkinz were strewn across the living room floor.
Later, Carrie-Bri and Rose returned from a work day with Memorial, despite the fact that they were the only ones from Memorial, with Lucia, and a group of Asian kids.
“We picked up trash the whole time,” said Rose, wrinkling her nose. “And tore down trees so that women wouldn’t get mugged on the streets.”
“Yeah, and Rose kept hitting me in the head with her big stick,” said Carrie.
“I did not!” Rose squawked.
After Puck’s “baff wiff bubblesh” (bath with bubbles), he held onto Collette’s hand mirror and made funny faces at himself while OLeif plugged in some retro tunes on the sound system.