Cute friends

This morning my friend Erin dropped off her kids at our house to catch an airplane before it was light outside. We layed Sammy in a pack and play in Teigs room hoping they would go back to sleep. It worked for a minute but pretty soon I heard some little voices and what they said were so cute. "Sammy" "what?" daddy horse poop". "what? "Sammy." "what?" "dinosaurs sleeping. Ha ha" "huh?" "Sammy's bed?" "ya." "Teigs bed. Mine bed horse bed." (when teig says "your" it sounds like horse.). They went back and forth for about 10 sentences until sammy gave up trying to understand "horse bed". Then they talked about where their moms were and compared blankets and talked about how they could not reach each other. Teig showed off his dinosaur noises and talked about going bear hunting. Then Teig did his best to make Sammy laugh by pretending to hit himself in the face and fall down laughing. Finally Teig said, "Sammy I sleeping for a while." That did not really happen for he very soon broke back into talking about daddy horse poop. (don't ask, I have no idea.)

Mystery pie

Tonight I made mystery pie for FHE treat. The recipe said "tastes exactly like apple pie". Really, the filling is made of all zucchini. I had high hopes that this might be a winning recipe so I presented it to the kids with a big smile on my face. It looked wonderful delicious and bubbling as I pulled it out of the oven. Eirik was the first to begin. Typically he won't eat anything I make, but this pie looked so good he got halfway through his piece before the rest of this started to make weird faces. I could not even eat the filling. And when Paul revealed that this was no apple pie, we all started to laugh. I laughed hysterically. I laughed so hard, I cried. Eirik misunderstood and thought I was laughing at him because he had been tricked. I guess in a way I was, but I did not mean to make him feel bad. The best part was that he really liked it. He won't touch a vegetable with a ten foot pole but he ate two pieces of zucchini pie! Paul was clever enough to turn the incident into a family home evening lesson. He compared the pie to the way Satan disguises sin and we had a nice discussion. I just loved the confusion and surprise on everyone's faces. I have not laughed so hard in a long time!