Like a MAX!

During a water break at Jiu Jitsu, Max reported how his lesson was going.  "I took Chloe down ... Like a BOSS!!"

Here he is sparring with Chloe as she exacts her revenge.

Omm

The kids were playing in the hallway while  I fixed the kitchen and I overhead Simone say,  "Namaste day, brother, namaste day."

Sibling for Daddy

The kids and I were talking about how many cousins they and I have respectively - which is A LOT. 

Simone was lamenting though that she doesn't have many first cousins.  She said, "I wish Daddy had a sister."

Max chimed in, "He would regret it."

Simone was not pleased at his implication.

Heaven Imagined

When I was young, I imagined heaven would be a Grecian palace in the clouds.  Simone says hers is similar, except for the architecture. She thinks of God as a ginormous head of Jesus in front of a building similar to the Lincoln Memorial.

Max has an interesting vision.  "I imagine a town floating in a white espresso cup."

These kids' imaginations blow mine away.

Lot in life

I was teaching Max how to prepare his room for vacuuming.   I then taught him how to use the vacuum machine.  After he swooshed the appliance around,  I taught him how to wind up the cord to put it away.  

As he finished with the cord,  he said, "Man you have it BAD!"

I asked him what he meant by that and he said,  "Because you have to do this (all the time)!"

Trying

Simone was bugging me one afternoon.   Everything seemed like such an ordeal to her and she would grumble to show her dissatisfaction at the situation.   I turned to her and asked,  "Why do you keep bugging me?"

With a dead pan look on her face she scoffed,  "I wasn't even trying.   Do you want me to?"

I couldn't help but laugh. She is as devtiant as I was with my mom.  

Winners and losers

Last night at dinner, Max wanted to see who could eat their food the quickest. Or rather, he wanted to beat everyone at the game.  He started the competition by declaring,

"Last one to eat their food is a British tourist!!"