Geen or Green

A long, long time ago when Tiger was little he pronounced green as “geen”. At this time Grandma N lived about 8 hours away. Grandma N came for a visit and decided she was going to help Tiger learn to pronounce “r” after “g,” such as in the word green.


Grandma N practiced and practiced with Tiger, helping him say Green instead of “Geen”. Grandma N was quite pleased with herself for helping this first grandchild learn to say “Gr”.

After Grandma N left to go back to her house 8 hours away, Tiger looked at me and said, “Mom, do you know how Gama says Geen? She says Grrr-een!” And then he started giggling like that was the funniest thing he had ever heard! Apparently he had just been humoring Grandma N.

X-Box

I had a funny moment yesterday. Elephant was playing the X-Box and wanted me to play with him. The problem with this is that I don’t have a clue how to play the X-Box. I was trying to play Lego Star Wars with him. I couldn’t even figure out how to make my dude move, actually, I couldn’t even figure out which dude was mine! The conversation went something like this:


Elephant: “Follow me Mom.”
Mom: “I don’t know how to make the guy move.”
Elephant: “Push this.”
Elephant: “Use your Light Saber.”
Mom: “I don’t know how.”
Elephant: “Push this button.”
Elephant: “Follow me Mom.”
(Mom frantically pushing every button)
Elephant: “Mom, your not following me!”
(Mom finally figured out how to make dude move, he is now running in circles because Mom can’t figure out how to make him go straight.)
Elephant: “Put your light saber away.”
Mom: “How do I do that?”
Elephant: “Use the same button that you pulled it out with.”
(Mom keeps pushing buttons)
(Elephant’s dude starts hitting Mom’s dude with light saber)
Mom: “Why are you trying to kill me?”
Elephant: “Because you aren’t following me!”

Needless to say, I got my bum kicked by a 5 year old!

-Zookeeper 2

Our Nice Room

How our Nice Room got its name. When we moved into this house it was the first time that we had a formal living room and a separate family room for watching TV. One day I was mad about how messy the formal living room was and tried to explain to Panda, who was 5 years old at the time, that this was our nice room, that we keep nice all of the time.

After that, every time I called it the living room, Panda would correct me and remind me that it wasn’t our living room, it was our Nice Room!

The sad thing is that with 6 boys, our Nice Room is a nice room in name only.

-Zookeeper 2

Fuff-a-lo

We were at the school today and saw a statue of a Buffalo. Cub1 pointed it out to and I told him to say “Hi Buffalo.” He said “Hi Fuff-a-lo” I love toddler speak!

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Hurricane

I would like to tell you about our Hurricane.

We have a Hurricane that lives in our house. Cub1 is our Hurricane. He likes to make sandboxes out of hot chocolate, flour, oatmeal, and lots of other things with great textures. He also likes to wear my lipstick, well, for that matter, all of my makeup. He also likes to help. For example, there was a fly in our Nice Room. Cub1 wanted to help us by killing the fly. Cub1 found a wrench. The fly landed on the window. Cub1 tried to hit the fly with the wrench. The fly survived…the window did not.

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Warning

Tiger has his drivers permit. This is a warning that you may not want to be on the roads. He is actually doing pretty good with his driving, however, I don’t think Penguin shares my confidence. The first time Tiger drove Penguin started shouting, “We’re gonna die!” It didn’t help that Tiger drove up on the curb.

-Zookeeper 2

Let Me Explain This To You Mom

Today as we passed a local hotel it reminded me of something that had happened a couple of years ago. The view of this hotel is partially blocked by an overpass. One day as we were driving over the overpass I suddenly noticed a building being built on this location. I was extra surprised because the building was two stories tall and this was the first time I had noticed it.

I commented to the kids, “Oh my goodness, I wonder what they are building.”

Penguin, wanting to be helpful replied, “I know, it’s a building!”

A few months later we passed by the Health Department. A new building was going up very close to the Health Department. I wondered if it was a new Health Department, an addition to the Health Department or something entirely different.

Every time we drove past this new building I would comment, “I sure wish I knew what they were building.”

As the building reached 2 or 3 stories high Penguin decided to be helpful and explain it to me. He said, “Maybe it’s a building, Maybe it’s a house. Maybe it’s a playground.”

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