Ethan reads to the girls while they eat a piece of Halloween candy for dessert:
ETHAN: (reading from "Farm Animals") A male chicken is called a -
MADELEINE: Cock-a-doodle-dooooooooooo!
ETHAN: Yup, it's a rooster. A male chicken is called a cockerel or a roost-
MADELEINE: COCK-A-DOOOOODLE- (breaks into violent, choking coughs, her face turning beet red and the chocolate candy she's eating spewing all over the place)
ETHAN: Are you okay, honey?
MADELEINE: (hacking her lungs out)
ETHAN: Are you okay, Madeleine?
MADELEINE: (coughing spasm subsides, sits silently)
ETHAN: A male chicken is ca-
MADELEINE: (cheerfully) Wow, that was a BIG SNEEZE!
Julia plays "School" with the little people, as the teacher addresses the "Big Kid Class":
JULIA: Okay, class, great job. Now let's go check on the little kid class. (Driving the big green tractor around in circles, finally settling on the other side of the rug, where a collection of Little People is set up.) Okay, class, today we're going to talk about what we have on our heads. (pointing to each Little Person in turn) Good! Good. Good. Good! (driving the tractor around in circles.) And the first one is... PATRICK LOLO! And the second one is... SARAH MINTZ!
Man, if only I could get first or second place for what I have on MY head.
Courtney. These kids. I can just picture every single one of these.
ReplyDeleteAlso - is Julia you or what? If she ever starts to think her cat is a tiger I just don't know what I'll do.