Winter Returns
Thursday, 2.24.2011
In which the ice and snow return, in brief…
Shortly after midnight, Puck did the growing pains shout-out. A brief leg massage and the little tike was snoring soundly once again.
In the morning…
It was a rainish world.
Collette and Puck spent the first half of their day making white chili, washing all the bedding, and listening to Puck’s audio Bible.
Just as Luke and Leia arrived, a light layer of ice pellets began to fall. And quickly subsided.
The afternoon was the usual circus, what one could only expect from unleashing a five year-old, nearly four, and nearly two year-old together in the same small house.
Luke chased Puck around the house with a stethoscope while Puck called out…
“Luke, not now! I’m practicing my favorite ballet!”
How Puck even knew what a ballet was, or the word ‘ballet’ in the first place…
Later, Luke put the stethoscope up to his foot.
“It sounds like there’s aliens in my foot,” he said with glee.
Then came the snow mixed with rain.
Against Collette’s better wisdom, she allowed each child to pick one piece of candy out of Puck’s prize candy bag from the previous night.
By the time Luke and Leia had left for the day, the world was iced over once again. And who could forget all of the freezing slush…
Sometime after four o’clock, Collette was informed that she had just missed the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery, live. This was disappointing, indeed. And by summer, for the first time in 60 years, there would be no more space shuttles. They would be all fully retired. Strange…
After dinner, Collette ate two of OLeif’s peanut butter cookies, which had not been pressed down with a fork. He called them ‘flying saucers’.
“I’m going to explode, Puck,” Collette told him, trying not to eat the last bite, but she just couldn’t help herself.
“I don’t want you ‘splode, Mama,” said Puck.
“What would you do if I did?”
“God would give you new bodies,” said Puck. “And He would forgive your sins.”
Puck, who was very much lately into telling stories, and who also insisted every time an object went missing or broke, that ‘the rats took it’, or ‘the mice took it’, had more stories for the dinner table…
“Your bones are hugging you. The bones chomp your body and then hug the people. So that’s why how the bones shouldn’t bite the parts of our body. So that was the story of the man who saw some bones hugging theirselves. But they shouldn’t be hugging theirselves.”
OLeif returned after a meeting at seminary.
Joe arrived to get a second opinion on his portfolio resume.
Iron Chef.
Train wrecks on WPXS… things often so uncomfortably creepy that OLeif and Joe could not help but watch with glazed-over eyes.
Origami documentary: Between the Folds.
In other news…
Joe was to have all four wisdom teeth removed the following morning.