Poor Zach and Hannah

Hannah said the other day (with disgust): Zach, me and you are the only ones in this family who don't have a Razor! (phone, that is).

Morning Musing w/ Seth

Mom, look at this snake that is painted on my arm. (face painting at scout activity prior night). This makes me popular Mom. Me: What does popular mean Seth? Seth: It means you dance around and have fun all the time. I learned that from t.v. okay.... Seth.....Mom....me and Ashby are really sad for Kyle that he does not have a sister! I think Amy needs to have another baby and it will be a girl and they should name her Gladys. Mom, did you know that Glady's spirit went up to heaven??? Mom (upon seeing my Redbook and Ladies Home Journal on the nightstand), why do you have so many comic books? Did you take all of these from the hospital?

Do you speak Idaho?

I think I already told everyone this, but I need to write it down for posterity. When we went to Bear Lake Hannah got really sunburned (4 kids, same sunscreen, same reapply schedule - my boys didn't get a speck of burn and my girls got fried....weird) Anywho, we decided rather than go to the lake again we decided to take the twins and drive up through Montpilier, etc. The twins were engrossed in a movie most of the trip up. When they decided to surface we were in some little Idaho town, crossing a bridge over some old railroad cars lying about in a railroad yard.... Here's how it went:

Hannah: Look Dad, motor homes!
Seth: Where are we?
Mom: We're in Idaho!
Seth: I don't like this place. I don't like Idaho. Everything is really scary here! I want to go home!!!
Seth: Are there people in Idaho?
Hannah: (in a stressed, almost crying voice) "But we don't speak Idaho!!"

We tried not to laugh out loud. Jim told them to stay close and let him do the talking in the gas station.