"Being a dentist for a Argentinasaurus is a very hard job."

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"Velociraptor is going to be banned to Siberia for boinging T Rex with his claws."

Dinosaur justice.

"The punishment of The Egg is done!"

Nick proclaimed the above when Daddy experienced unusually bad egg-cracking luck while making the Saturday morning flapjack and egg breakfast.

Associations...

"If Phillipe saw 2 balls, he had to juggle.
If Phillipe saw 2 towers, he had to walk.
If Sam sees me, he has to play!"

Nick and Sam love to play, and this is how he explained the attraction.

To understand "Phillipe", you must refresh youself with a previous post, way back in April '04...

"They should be sacked!"

John, we should expect that you will appreciate that one...

The situation is that Diane was diverting a road we normally drive down that has recently been chip-sealed.

Nick: "Oil and stones is no way to fix a road!. They should be sacked!"

"It's shiny and all greased up!"

Nick's response to Mommy observing: "You got a real good [thumb] suckling going on there."

Operation!

Nick had a tiny splinter in the sole of his foot...

Nick: "By the time I saw that Dad had the tweezers, I knew it was time to be brave...so I came closer."

Courage

To: Everyone@familiesoffana.org...
Reading and instilling a love for reading in Nick & Corinne is important to me. Employing most any subject that they find captivating drives the choice of books. Due to the overwhelming interest in the Harry Potter series, I was hopeful to satisfy my own curiosity, that Nick would find an interest. I was happy to find that he is. [Do ask him about dementors; he loves reenactment using his sister as victim...]

Prior to embarking upon the orphaned Harry's journey through adolescence, I was keenly aware of a special group of the devoted readership that made pilgrimages to meet the author: terminally or very ill children and their mothers. As I read the first book, I was tuned in to discovering what aspect of the book was so emotionally relevant to these mothers. I waited until the closing chapter and that aspect blasted out of the page and in an instant, all was understood. The point was not the entire plot or even a chapter, but a small paragraph.

[Slight spoiler here...] Harry asks his headmaster and wisest of all wizards why Voldermort, the embodiment of pure evil, cannot harm him in the way that he has harmed or kill others, including his parents. Dumbledore, the headmaster replied:

"'Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leave its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. ... It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.'" Chapter 17, pg. 216

No mother of an ill child can escape a fervent wish to trade places. But, my reading of that same passage to my very heathy son had its own emotional wallop for a completely different reason.

At Saturday's Gala Diner, there were at least 4 poster boards placed in the hallway leading from the diner to the auction depicting Faith, Hope, Love and Courage. I commend inclusion of 'Courage'. Participating in the FANA experience is a reward that has many facets, but the support of Hogar Margarita is the facet I find unique among agencies, it was the deal sealer when we considered FANA and it may always be the facet for which I am most proud in being a member.

We emphasize our fundraising for the children. But, as Mercedes emphasized Saturday evening, it is the courageous that come to her doors that need our continued support and need our prayers that the life affirming and saving grace bestowing upon us in the green room may some day touch those who "loved so deeply".

I would like to ask if the 'Courage' image could somehow be sent onto me and, perhaps be considered for La Hoja.

Kind Regards,
Greg K

"They must be sad."

Diane and I were leaving for a fund raising event for the orphanage from whence Nick and Corinne came. Diane was trying to explain the importance of us attending since leaving Nick for the evening always gives him cause for concern. Diane explained that the funds raised didn't go to the children that get adopted, but more so to the children that have not been adopted and don't have Mom's and Dad's. To which he retorted with empathy...

"Mom, the same thing is going to happen to you that happened to your parents."

"You are going to get old and I am going to grow up." Yeah. It's all coming together...he's putting it aaaaall together.

"BUT, YOU DON'T NEED A CELL PHONE!!!"

It was a lovely morning here in Rochester as I read email on the back porch, when my charming son bellowed from a very close 2nd floor window:

"DAD, IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE PANCAKES!"

The birds scattered; Jim, next door, fell in the pool and traffic stopped on the main drag a block away. [Not really.]
Daddy: "You don't have to yell. I can hear you."
To which he replied, with no less volumn, the titled quote above...

"Mommy, I know what 'inside-out' means."

"It means if the inside of your briefs is on the outside and the outside of your briefs is on the inside, they are inside out."
Now this would be fine addition to the blog on its own. A revelation of understanding. A point in his life where things like "inside out" begin to make sense. But this riviting piece of "I get it!" transpired at midnight after everyone had been asleep for an hour! Nice to know he feels comfortable discussing what's on his mind, regardless of the hour...

"I gotta pee so bad, my rocket is going to blast off!"

...running to the bathroom. I never used that term!

"What is so mommyish about her?"

Nick ponders the unponderable...

A couple techies have fun out back...

Here is a video taken at the R.'s, the family directly behind our house. The video shows their son Sam on their swing set with Nick and Corinne. The video was shot using Charlie R's PalmOne Zire equipped with camera/video.

Unfortunately, the video format is ASF, a Microsoft specific wrapper around MPEG. :-P So, all you MS users should be able to view this with the MS Media Player just fine.

Internet Explorer will open this fine, but if you use Opera, you will have to map ASF -> MS Media Player..

"We don't need that lotion 'cause our skin is freash, right?"

Asked of Diane as she applied sunscreen...SPF99!

With scowl, "Those [Last Name]'s are wasting time."

Glenn & Marie are wee bit late for dinner....and with Star Wars DVDs they are letting him borrow.

Palette

"I like lime pie. I've never had it so I am sure I will like it."

Glenn & Marie are coming over and Nick is all excited to have some of the pie Marie is bringing over.