Brocolli water and baby smiles

Britton is wearing white (and Mary Walton has the white bow)
Katherine is wearing pink (and Shelby has the pink bow)

Tonight at supper, after a week or so of terrible supper experiences (where 3 yr olds sit at the table for over an hour in front of their bowl of whatever, until they take 3 bites for freedom), I served a favorite dish...frozen cheese pizza and brocolli (the frozen part applies to the brocolli as well). I was draining the brocolli (after "steaming" it in the microwave) and the big girls called out, "Mommy, what are you doing???" (you know, 3 yr olds like to ask questions sometimes.) I said, "I'm pouring out this brocolli water into the sink"...to which they replied, "may I have some broc-a-yee water?" (you can see where this is going) They proceeded to down not one, not two, but THREE teacups each (princess teacups, of course) of "brocolli water" with little brocolli bits floating in it. Unbelievable. You know, I had heard that when you boil vegetables, all the vitamins go in that water...well, problem solved. We have the most granola children...maybe some of that vegetable lovin' can rub off on the parents?

Shelby's Movie Moments

Our first movie theater experience...Ratatouille
Shelby said, "It portrayed the clash between a dying feudalistic noble class and the surging capitalist bourgeois class in the post-Kantian pre-French-Revolution Paris, viewed through the lense of 1980's Thatcherian social policy, but tainted by the writers' own Pre-neo-post-modern anti-omni-structuralism with quasi Marxist agrarian undertones....of course...If you've seen Apocalypse Now you have seen the same idea presented more clearly only with Marlon Brando and a long needed nod to Trent's impact on Gorbechev's Perestroika." Of course Mary Walton and i both think that sounds like exactly what a supra-millenial libretarian neo-orthodox platonist, with Hegelian views on post-Vietnam immigration policy, and whose favorite musician is Raffi would say. She sees everything through a pre-"War of Jenkins Ear"-meso-pythagorean infralapsarian mindset.... So what can i say, you know? Stil, I always worry when i agree with Mary because I feel like she is an anti-2nd Chalcedonian Council Modalistic high sacramentarian who would have voted for Mondale but blames Korea on Locke.

Britton's grimace.

Our dear friend Martha with two happy babies. That's Katherine's best smile that we've captured to date, and that silly grin on Martha's face is one I've been seeing for about 25 years now, which is fun.