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Friday’s edition of Cute Things Baxter Says

 

  1. Mama, a purple fig tastes like the inside of a tree that is growing.
  2. (Agreeing about the need to be safe) Yeah, because you don’t want to die short.
  3. Mama, you’re so, so big. You’re like a giant volcano that doesn’t shoot hot lava. And that’s good.
  4. I’m so exhaus-perated.
  5. Mama, amn’t I so cute?

Banana Split

IMG_6744After hitting the Columbia Employees’ Store yesterday, we made good on a promise I had made to the children ages ago, which was to buy them a banana split at Cloud City Ice Cream. Three scoops of ice cream: vanilla, circus friends, and (since they were out of normal chocolate) salted caramel chocolate; also, hot fudge, peanuts, whipped cream, a banana of course, and two cherries.

Amelia was disappointed in her first banana split. She did not enjoy the salted caramel chocolate ice cream and also didn’t love the peanuts. Baxter enjoyed it more (and ate more of the banana), but ate himself sick. I’m trying to eat healthier so I didn’t help as much as I normally would have. 🙂 That said, I think every childhood should include a certain number of banana splits, and I’m sure we’ll find a style that Amelia likes eventually.

Morning lullaby

Baxter just woke up, about 10 minutes before I let the kids get up, and demanded the lullaby I didn’t sing him last night because I was working out while Tom tucked them in. (The kids have been very Mommy-attached lately, and I’ve been doing a second tuck-in on the nights Tom tucks them in.) Bax seemed to think it was still night time. 😉 So I went in and sang him “Hushabye Mountain,” his current fave, and told him to go back to sleep. We’ll see if he does. Breaking: he did not. 

Here’s Dick Van Dyke singing Hushabye Mountain, if you too need a morning lullaby. 

Three faces of Baxter

  1. Original: “I wanted to say ‘fish’ a different way, so I said ‘chicken’.”
  2. Winsome: “Mama, maybe Daddy can keep the house safe, and us can do a little shopping?”
  3. Educated: “I already know about princesses and queens, you know: because they’re matching.”