"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."

A Visit to Brown's Berry Patch

The whole family took a trip to Brown's Berry Patch in Albion, NY. It is a nice halfway distance for us to meet up with our friends from Lewiston, Kevin and Lyn S. and thier kids Colin & Lauren. It was a perfect day and a lot of fun. The kids loved it. For kids the age of ours, I highly recommend the trip there.

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"Is that the leaf store?"

"Let's go home."

They love it here at the cottage on Buck Lake, but it just occured to Corinne that going home might be an interesting thing to do.

"Talk to the words" (or letters)

We can't remember if she said talk to the "words" or "letters", but she wanted us to read something to her. Cute phrase. If you are big on reading-a-loud to your kids, this phrase has a nice extra twist to it.

"That's beatiful Nicholas! Wow, that's impressed (sic)"!

Corinne was providing critical assessment of one of Nick's drawings. In this case, it was a black snake with yellow stripes, a rendition of a snake we found on the property at the lake. So, whether Corinne was offering genuine enthusiasm or exercising her manipulation of a member of the opposite sex is topic we shall leave to the child psycolocists out there.

A Walk

Corinne and I took a hike down a old overgrown road. She eagerly walked until there was a stick in the way causing mild protest but, she managed to get around it only to lose her footing on a small rock. "I'm coming Dad!"

We walked about a1/4mi over small hills and vales with her clutching my index finger finishing up near a rather large beaver dam seperating two lakes. At that point, she was tapping out. I carried her over one hill then let her down for a few dozen steps before I was sure that the unencombered part of the jaunt had come to an end. I lifted her up and began a slow walk and within parhaps 50 steps, she was dead weight with only the slightest whisper of air passing through her tiny nose. As soon as we came upon the car, arm aching, back tiring, I turned around and walked the other way sensing that this may be the last time I get to carry her to sleep.

"I'm BIG E-nough!!!" ...

...to go for a canoe ride. And indeed she was. As we set off, daddy lost his balance just enough to rock her out of her seat and onto the floor of the canoe. Nonplused, she was perched back onto the middle of the seat. So began the rest of her first and much less eventful canoe ride. She used one of her oft borrowed phrases from Harry Potter's 3rd movie in her best Carribean dialect, "It's going to be a bumpy ride!".

The next few posts refer to Corinne's 1st Family Vacation...

... at a cottage we rented from a neighbor. The cottage is on Buck Lake between Kingston and Westport, Ontario Canada.

"It popped out!"

Corinne's first reaction to the sensation of biting kernels from a fresh ear of summer corn.

"I have a bellyache. I need ice cream!

Corinne has no concept of what a "bellyache" actually is, but apparently she knows the cure...

"I play with naked Sam in the squirts!"

"Where's daddy?"

Mommy: "He's on the computer in the basement."
Cheeks: "Heeeee's playing playdoh!"

A couple techies have fun out back...

Here is a video taken at the R.'s, the family directly behind our house. The video shows their son Sam on their swing set with Nick and Corinne. The video was shot using Charlie R.s PalmOne Zire equipped with camera/video.

Unfortunately, the video format is ASF, a Microsoft specific wrapper around MPEG. :-P So, all you MS users should be able to view this with the MS Media Player just fine.

Internet Explorer will open this fine, but if you use Opera, you will have to map ASF -> MS Media Player..

All her responses are in sickiningly sweet sing-song...

Daddy: "How do you like your eggs?"
Cheeks: "Goooood."
Daddy: "Well, eat'em."
Cheeks: "You eat'em."

Marketing.

"MOMMY! I LIKE MINE ALLL BUTTERED UP!"

Anything: bread, pancakes...

Why all caps? Nothing is said quietly around here anymore...

"Cook! You need to cook!"

Just prior to starting dinner preparations, Diane suspected something was in Corinne's mouth and asked her what it was. Corinne ran away certifying guilt. At the end of the line, Corinne spun around on her heals, pointed at Diane as she appoached and gave her the above quoted marching orders. What was in her mouth? A tiny, tasty stone... Indeed, get cooking!

"Hi. I Satan!"

Diane got a very nice letter from a neighborhood mom looking for new friends for her 5yr old son. After arranging the date, Diane walked over waggoning both Nick & Corinne to visit the new friends. As they walked up the driveway and were greeted by the new mom, this is how Corinne introduced herself. The background is that Nick has become enthralled by all things supernatural from superheroes to biblical characters. He loved Disney's Fantasia, recently borrowed from the library. With Sorcerer's Apprentice and Night on Bald Mountian ranking as favorites. Corinne was, apparently, very impressed.