Thursday, April 22, 2004

"God's Glory cracked open the cellar door."

Not sure where the voice came from, but Mommy heard it proclaimed while she was doing laundry in the basement.

Saturday, April 17, 2004

"What if Jesus and the angels came to our house and blessed us?"

(...we are already blessed to have this boy)

"I do things differently for the Nanny."

Nick's reason for only drinking milk for Kim, the nanny, rather than Mommy.

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

"Spencer needs to be more respectable for humans."

Nick reacts to his cousin Spencer's "aggressive dinosaur" act.

"Aunt Becky felt sorry for me. She was kind and gentle."

Nick's description of Aunt Becky's intervention after Spencer's dinosaur imitation. Nick really likes his Aunt Becky.

Saturday, April 10, 2004

"Mommy - I'm happy I have life. I'm happy I have you too."

We would like to wish Nick's birth mother a Happy Easter. We would really, really like to be able to tell her that...

"What if Jesus fell off the cross?"

Well, the thought occurred to me to say that a whole lot of folks through the centuries would have had to come up with something else to rationalize and justify violations of the Golden Rule, but I guess I'll go with never coming to know real love and love's true limit as taught by an obscure Galilean carpenter that embraced the revolutionary promise to the ordinary man, woman and child that the "Meek shall inherit". Given the historical period, there has, perhaps never been a more radical position taken by a person.

"...it's rather unstyled."

Admittedly, still watching too much of The Apprentice... Nick comments on The Donald's hair....

"That's just how life is."

Reply to mommy's question: "Why did we have trouble getting ready to go to the library?"

"Because she likes me and wants me to stay alive."

Reply to dayee's inquiry regarding why he would eat cherry pie for his nanny Kim instead of his dayee...

Sunday, April 04, 2004

"Am I going to get fired?"

Nick was concerned after dayee informed him that he didn't do a very good job brushing his teeth... Perhaps we need to cut back on watching The Apprentice... no cute girls left anyway...

Phillipe Petit; Twin Tower Tight Rope Walker Reenactment

Phillipe Petite. If you don't see a picture here, my server is down...Phillipe Petite. If you don't see a picture here, my server is down...

Nick reenacts one of his favorite stories, the 2004 Caldecott Medal winning book The Man Who Walked Between The Towers. A recounting of the true story of Phillipe Petite's daring feat of walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974.

Phillipe Petite. If you don't see a picture here, my server is down...

One Hint: Good Friday

Stigmata. If you don't see a picture here, my server is down...

Friday, April 02, 2004

"That's OK Mommy. Accidents happen."

Nick tried to make Mommy feel OK about breaking a gate in the house. Of course, he wasted no time telling Daddy every single detail about "the accident" when he came home. As Nick said: "It was indignified!"

"Mommy, I'm just being a boy."

And he was surely doing something boy-ish.

"I'm gonna play like boys should"

"What if Jesus fell off the cross?"

The little reverend is at it again...now it is the Easter Story. We wonder if anyone has ever asked this question before?

"He's not pretty."

Nick can't understand why Bob Dylan is featured in a Victoria's Secret commercial.

Thursday, April 01, 2004

"You laid them down wrong."

Nick's reason for putting his pants on backwards. Nick has already mastered the technique of always putting the blame on the woman.