"I just got skunked by a little girl."

During a scrum, Corinne demonstrated yet another trick she learned from the brother on whom she shat... :-P

Agi Part II

Mommy: "John's not going to bring Agi."

Nick: "I am going to call John tonight and tell him I'm not going to steal Agi."

Mommy: "Is that just a trick?"

Nick: "Yes. Let that be our little secret."

Agi

Nick: "When Uncle John gets here with Agi... [sound effects: "kessssssssst"; visual effects: index finger dragged across the throat sporting a mischievious smile with eyes wide open.] Then I will throw him on the ground".

Daddy: "Your Uncle John loves you very much. He has been very nice to you."

Nick: "Nevertheless..." [Repeat of above audio-visual.]

I'm not even sure how to spell 'nevertheless'; one word, three words...?

"But, I could call you on your phone."

Diane and I rented a video to watch after Nick was put down for the night. He is not always comfortable with the arrangement of not having Mommy readily available in the next room....

D: "Well, Daddy and Mommy will be right downstairs. We could get a baby sitter and go out to see a movie at the theater instead."

N: [Response above]

We keep looking for the switch to turn off the Thinking Machine. No can find.

After a morning out with Daddy...

"I am getting tired of those videos. I want to go out and have fun."

This was the message after the fact. Prior to our departure, I had to enlist the Budweiser team of Clydesdale to drag him out of the house...

"You know what Mommy?"

"I think Daddy just turned me into an Ice Cream person."

"I don't know where she's finding these crumb's, but I'm sure it is a most unusual place."

Nick, trying to guess where Corinne is finding cracker crumbs to nibble on. "most unusual ?", indeed.

"We don't have any good Dad slides over there, but we do have one right here."

Every night, dad lays prone, face down, at the bottom of the stair case and Nick proceeds to slide down dad's back. He gets a real kick out of the 'bump' at the end; perhaps due to an added sense of danger that the bump may erupt at any time. Dad is just a one-man carnival act. I truly cannot recall how this stanza in the nightly pageant began, but part of the ritual is that he repeats this quote before each plunge. [We don't know where "over there" is, but we are sure that there are no good dad slides anywhere but here.]

"This salmon is so delicious,

...I could eat a whole whale if you (Mommy) made it."

Complements are packaged in many different ways. From kids, you revel in the fact that they don't know how to backhand them as yet.

Princess Leia

"I'll get that woman and marry her...and then she'll be nothing but useless scrap."
We raise them to be honest.

"I think all the other kids drew flowers on theirs."

Nick was very excited to present Mom with her 1st "school-made" Mother's Day present. It was a lovely hand painted glass vase complete with paper flowers. As Nick noted, he didn't follow the trend of painting the vase with more flowers. That's not original! He painted a Headless Ghoul, skeleton head, magic potions and ghosts! I do believe that may have been the best present Diane has ever received, if you measure by laughter levels. Six hours latter, she can't tell the story without falling over.
D: "Anyone can have flowers. I want a Headless Ghoul!"

"Corinne, leave Mommy alone or she'll have to go to a spa!"

This was Nick's take on Diane's query of them both as to who would send her over the edge first...