"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."

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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Vacation '05 MultiMedia

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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.