"We don't BITE; we LICK!"

In may become the diet craze of 2025.

"Oh my GAWD! Bertram [name of Rendezvous] is getting all wet!"

Out in the rain...

"This is the best day ever!"

A rainy, windy overcast raw Rochester day after having been dragged in and out of the car for an ugly day of shopping. Corinne is the ray of sunshine we didn't know we needed here in less-than-sunny Rochester.

"Mommy, I'm making a seatbelt [out of a strand of spagetti]."

Mommy: "A seatbelt?"
Corinne: "A nice cosy seatbelt."

Food art has never reached such levels; takes comfort food a whole new level.

♬ E-F-G, E-F-G, E-F-G,... ♩

Corinne serenading Nick in the car. He loves it... ♬ E-F-G, E-F-G, E-F-G,... ♩

"Where's the other pink?'

Corinne experiencing her fist viewing of her newly painted bedroom...

"I want the crotch."

Diane and Nick made big gingerbread man cake to warm up a cold, grey fall day. Nick and Corinne got an opportunity to pick a certain section of the 'man' ... She says these things to keep me rattled.

"I just love you, Mom. You're so wonderful."

Just when Mom feels that all she does goes unnoticed and unappreciated, Cheeks hugs with all her might and says this.

Now isn't this much better than earning a paycheck?

"I like scarry stuffs'es."

Corinne joins in Nick fascination with the Dark Side as Halloween draws nearer...

"We have to do my works'es."

Corinne's emphatically insists upon a Playdoh work ethtic with Nick...

"You silly old butt!"

She musters up a one of her cutting castigations toward Mommy.

"Are you stuck in a hole?"

While killing time in the waiting room while the car was being repaired, I called home to see what was up. Corinne, knowing I was having car trouble, got on the phone with above burning question...

"Go away! ...

...Go in the basement! Work something...computer!"

Well. She knows were we should be if she doesn't want us paying attention to her...

Dingelschloss

From Merriam-Corrine Dictionary:

1. [noun] a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth. Etymology: German, I think.

"Shhh. Klem is sleeping."

Mom came in to extricate Cheeks from her crib after her nap. Corinne was careful to protect her alter-ego, 'Klem', from being woken.

"Peameal is wierd."

Mommy: "I wish we had peameal."
Cheeks: reply above...

We recently reaquainted outselves with peameal Candian bacon on our vacation trip. Good bacon, that Canadian bacon...

"Daddy's bigger."

Daddy: "Bigger than what?"
Cheeks: "Bigger than a smaller dad."