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tasty cabbages

very tasty

Curious sayings

Jon:  "I'm so hungry I could eat a hobo."
Robert loves playing Laser Tag, but he likes the post game analysis even more.
According to Robert, the Chinese Food Network controls everything, including what music he plays during piano practice.

Penelope Sniffsalot, Smell Detective

Jon said "Robert's bedroom smells like it needed a breath mint".  The Smell Detective is on the case.

Gosh darn it you kids!

Jon and Robert were playing yesterday, when I heard Jon say, "Come back here you whippersnapper!"

More highlights of 2012, so far

Robert was using the Ipod after me and asked, "Why did you look up a meme? You aren't interested in memes." "How would you know? You aren't with me twenty four hours a day." "Of course I am,"he chirped.  Damn you, summer vacation. It has been a long day, but I was in the home stretch, with one boy in pajamas and the other in the tub. Then the boy in pajamas got back in tub, while still wearing his pajamas.  Said his brother offered him a cookie. Jon won the Young Author's Conference contest for his classroom, and got to go the the city-wide Young Author's Conference. On his name tag he wrote, "Jon lol"

Highlights of 2012, so far

Jon has taken to calling his brother "Mate". Jon: "I'm going to start cursing in Italian.  Uno, dos, tres..." Love it when I wake up from a nap and Robert comes in like a large puppy and cuddles and says, "your breath smells like some kind of cheese." Jon to Jim: You have been deleted by the moderator. "What is love Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me no more" Robert, in the shower. Robertism #1: I'm going to get naked. Don't you want to see me in all my glory? Consensus: Been there, done that. Robertism #2: The other night at dinner, Robert asked Jon burger could have a bite of his burger. Jon said no. He then sang (to the tune "Imperial March"), are you going to eat that burger? Jon did not yield. It was a good burger. As Jim was cutting into the rhubarb pie, he said "This looks a lot like chicken pot pie." "I'm glad it's not. I hate chicken," said Robert. "And ...

No, but I have been mangled by margarine

Jon wants to have a "popcorn party", where one of the games would be "Have you ever been killed by butter"?

Now if I could only figure out the other one

I finally have Jon figured out. He just strings together words for no apparent reason, such as "federal governors can't be choosers."

Aloha flu

Jon and Jim went to a volleyball game and came back with leis.  I said, "Oh, that's so cute.  We should put one on Romeo for Halloween."  "Yeah," said Jon,  "he could go as a cat with the Hawaiian cat flu."

Snap out of it, indeed

Jon is running through the house, making car noises, and Robert yells at him, "Snap out of it!"

They worship at the altar of Nintendo

Heard during a scuffle, "For the love of Donkey Kong, get off me!"

I'm on the fence about this

Jim was discussing with Robert whether he preferred playing offense or defense. Jon piped up and said, "Can I play over the fence?"

With a side of Pixy Stix

Jon's suggestion for an appropriate school lunch:  a sugar-cube sandwich.

I call the fruit salad "Carmen Miranda"

Robert said, "I call the last piece of ice cream cake." Pause "I call it 'Fred'".

Spot on as usual

I have two things that I ask the boys to do when they get home:  put their lunch sacks in the kitchen and leave their homework and other papers out for me to see.  I asked Jon what I wanted him to do, and he said, "Hang up my backpack and whine and cry?"

It's like he can read my mind

Jon yells, for no discernible reason, "MOM!  It's all your fault."  I think to myself, "Why, because I gave birth to you?"  He continues, "For giving birth to me!"

"Pay up, or Dolly gets it!"

One of Jon's friends wrote him a very polite note requesting that he write her back, since she has sent him a couple notes without a response.  I mentioned it would be the nice thing to do, and he said, "I'll write her a note.  A ransom note!"

No birthday presents for you!

I was having a sweet moment with Jon last night, and said, "I can't believe you are going to be seven."  And he said, "I can believe you stink."