Eleanor recently chose an animal for her African Animal Report for first grade. She chose the baboon. Genevieve calls these critters Bad Poons. Apparently there are Good Poons and Bad Poons - and the Bad ones are more fun, of course. Here are a few more recent comments from the peanut gallery:
In the "I Want It... What Is It?" category:
Eleanor: (Knocks)
Mom: (Getting dressed on the other side of the door) "What do you need?"
Eleanor: (After trying unsuccessfully to open the locked door - because "what do you need" is apparently easily confused with "come in") "Can I eat these things?"
Mom: "What things?"
Eleanor: "I don't know."
Mom: (With a shirt half over my head, trying not to laugh) "Um, ask Sarah what they are, then come back and ask me again."
It turned out the "things" in question were canned peaches. Yes, Eleanor, you can eat them. As a side note, anything you don't want Eleanor to eat has to go on the top shelves, where they're harder to see. That girl will eat anything that looks edible (as evidenced by the preceding conversation)!
Also from Eleanor - we had an interesting conversation about skeletons in the car today. Sarah was talking about the plastic Lego skeletons she has included in some of her Lego block sets. Eleanor commented thus: "You know, skeletons are alive, and then you die and they're dead, and then people can get inside them and pretend to be alive, but they're not really alive, because skeletons are dead." Hmm... not sure what to make of that one (first thought is that she saw a skeleton costume at Halloween last year). Alrighty then.
And yes, we've been having some birthdays lately. Here are some pics from Gennie's 5th! (And Sarah is 11 now - wow. Middle school here we come. Yay?)