Catching up

- Kate's baby's head fell off last week, at school. In the car on the way home, it continued to fall off. She was quite upset, as you might expect. Then she didn't really want to hold it anymore. Kind of unnerved by the whole thing, I guess. She left it home Thursday, and I spent a good hour and a half figuring out how to get it on and keep it on. Hopefully she'll come around to it again, but that hasn't happened yet.

- Jack's been watching Phineas and Ferb. It's a funny show but it's possible it's a little old for him. Emily and I enjoy it, which I guess says it all. Anyway, there was one with a mummy, and lately he's been coming out with strange questions. "Where do you find mummies?" "Will I be wrapped up in toilet paper like a mummy?"On the bright side, the shows have some songs, and it's pretty funny when Jack starts singing one of them randomly. The songs are typically doo-wop type stuff. Jack does cute versions of them.

- Dancing in the kitchen has become a thing lately. Used to be after dinner, I'd be washing dishes or something and put the radio on. Now Jack sometimes starts dancing even before there's music on, swinging his arms and stomping his feet and stuff. So then I put music on, and we both start dancing, and then Kate starts bobbing her head back and forth in her high chair, and then she wants out. So Emily gets her out and the four of us start dancing in the kitchen. It's not a big kitchen. Kate's dancing is normally to hold our hands and let her body relax, so that we're lifting her up, swinging her somewhat, by her arms. Jack likes to pull on our arms, and shake his butt around (at some point he came up with a song he sings sometimes, which I believe is Emily's fault: "My boo-ty butt.....my boo-ty butt....."). And then he tries to pick us up like we pick Kate up, which of course doesn't work out so well.

- Today we went out in the backyard late in the afternoon with a bubble machine. Not sure I mentioned it before. It runs on 6 batteries and has a wheel with about 8 wands so it blows a whole lot of bubbles. So the air was filled with bubbles, that Kate looked at with bemusement and Jack laughed at and ran away from....or toward...or away from. The bubble liquid also had a big wand. Jack used it to blow some bubbles. Kate tried, so hard, to blow some bubbles, but she couldn't get that you needed to keep your mouth slightly away from the wand. She basically kept trying to kiss it.

Then I took the wand and used it to blow larger bubbles. I blew a big one, and it floated off across the patio. Jack tried to catch it, running after it, leaping in the air, laughing.