Mama Hippo

Today David made up a game that involved a snail, a dolphin, and a hippo. He asked Angie what she wanted to be. 'I'll be the dolphin', Angie told him. To this, he cracked up for a good two minutes, then he shook his head and said 'no, Mama. You the hippo'. Then it was my turn to crack up.

David has a lot of misunderstandings about Angie's swollen belly. Today, he went into a long story about how his baby brother was in an egg and was going to hatch soon, 'like a crocodile'. In the world that David lives in, Angie must have at one point swallowed the biggest egg ever. To further confuse things, I joked in the beginning that Angie had been stung by a bee in the belly. He still brings that up.

Angie went to playgroup with David, where they met up with Karin and Christoph. Christoph ran up, said hello, and then bit David on the arm. Either Christoph needs to be fed more or David's arm looks like a big teething ring. At least this time it was not Gizma who scratched him.

After kindergarten, Peter came home and announced to everyone that he had learned something new at school today. We all gathered around to watch Peter's new trick, only to stare in utter disbelief as he began spitting all over the rug. Peter paused and looked up at us proudly. Ta-da!

Angie and I were speechless. We turned to find David spitting all over the sofa; apparently he's a fast learner. 'STOP!' we shouted in unison as we found our voices again.

Peter was devastated that his new trick from the playground wasn't destined to become some new and disgusting way of mopping our floors. It was easier to explain to Peter why that could only be done on the playground. David, despite many explanations, continued spitting all over the place for hours.

Thanks to Peter's newly found education, spitting can now be added to the growing list of things that confuse David's tiny brain, along with bee stings, eggs hatching, and Mama pretending to be anything other than a hippo.
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1) What was the best part of your day?
Peter: When I went with Dalia playing.
David: When I take a bath.

2) What was the worst part of your day?
Peter: When I couldn't stay longer by the kindergarten.
David: When I bonk the shark so bonk bonk hard and when Christoph bite me.

3) What would you like to do tomorrow?
Peter: To go to Dalia's and play.
David: When Dalia come back and then she's back by me, not Peter.

The Finnish Tickle

Hey, Finnish people can be funny...

Sami stopped by today for a full-on tickle attack, followed by some soccer lessons in the garden. David loves his Godfather and the Godfather loves teaching David new and 'interesting' things.

For a while, David would run around the house trying to stick a computer mouse into the cat. He also taught David how to thoroughly irritate his older brother by calling him Loco Chico, something that Peter really hates. Thanks, Chorizo.

Peter spent the night at Dalia's, which meant that David spent the morning moping around, looking for something else to hit. He zeroed in on Gizma and spent the next five minutes trying to step on her tail. It made me rethink whether his Ladder Talk's frequent worst moment of 'when Gizma scratch me' isn't really a daily occurrence.

Peter's homecoming wasn´t until the afternoon and David chose to display his brotherly affection with a swift blow to Peter's head with a plastic sword. Three hours later when Peter stopped crying, he told David 'you broke my heart into pieces like a puzzle'. David did not appreciate the poetic simile nor did he really seem to give a shit about Peter's broken heart or head. He did get excited about the puzzle and kept asking where that was.

I realized that puzzles, like Finnish people, can be funny. I laughed, which made Peter mad, which made Angie tell me to be nice, which made me laugh harder, which made Peter furious, which made David giggle, which made me laugh even harder, which made Angie demand that I apologize. Sorry, Loco Chico.
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1) What was the best part of your day?
Peter: When I slept by Dalia.
David: When Dalia come again mit Brian.

2) What was the worst part of your day?
Peter: When I thought by going up nobody was going with me but then Sebastian come up and scared me because I thought he was a bird.
David: When Gizma scratch me.

3) What would you like to do tomorrow?
Peter: To go to the city and look to a movie.
David: When Dalia come again and the carousel.

All fired up

This is kind of a scary picture. Peter is busy looking for...what, air condition? Dalia seems to be trying to find a sun roof; only David has his eyes on the road and I have seen his driving skills on his big wheel. Let me just say that it is a damn good thing that nothing is on fire and that this machine is on a track can only go around in circles.

After the kids had their fun, it was our turn. We went to the beer tent and let our glasses play bumper cars for a while. At one point, David found a dripping gutter and thought it would be a super smart thing to do to hold his big bag of popcorn under the water. Oddly enough, David does not like soggy popcorn. Oh, well, as they say 'live and do really dumb things'.

Peter was spending the night at Dalia's, so I took a slightly disappointed David home. In this context, slightly meant 20 minutes of crying on the car ride home. At home, Mama did her magic and was able to replace the tears with a smile. In this context, her magic was essentially a bribe of chocolates and candy. Just as effective as a hangar, but without the revealing movie later on.

After calming David with a sugar cocktail, Angie informed me that her belly was cold. I informed her that her belly sticks out so far that if it were warm, her internal organs would probably be on fire. She said something about me being an insensitive bastard and went to bed. I almost cried.

As Peter went to bed, I guess Brian made a comment about not letting the bed bugs bite. Peter promptly told Brian that he does not like bugs and that in his house, we don't have bugs in our beds. Next time he spends the night at the Roach Motel, I will make sure to pack a can of Raid.

Somehow, Peter managed to block out the fact that he was sleeping in a bug-infested bed. The purple unicorn and Ariel probably helped, as well as being able to hold onto Dalia's ear.


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1) What was the best part of your day?
Peter: When I looked Curious George.
David: When Dalia come mit Brian.
Dalia: When Peter, when we played Elina and Peter Pan at the same time.

2) What was the worst part of your day?
Peter: When by Curious George I saw and Curious George go and came on the boat to Africa.
David: When the fairies come to us.
Dalia: I have no worst part today no even when Curious George went to Africa

3) What would you like to do tomorrow?
Peter: I want to do autch!
David: When Dalia come to the zoo.
Dalia: Play a lot.