Watching Attack of the Clones with the boys this morning, in preparation for tonight's Clone Wars movie (they'll be going as part of friend Jake's Birthday party), when Aidan and I had the following conversation:
Me: See, Anakin and Amidala are falling in love.
Aidan: Why?
Me: That's a really good question.
Dispatch from SleepyMama:
Overheard conversation between Bryce and his buddy Zoe, age 5, as they were acting out The Little Mermaid with dolls:
Zoe (in her Ursula voice): "You have THREE DAYS to kiss your true love. Got that? THREE DAYS."
Bryce: "What happens then?"
Zoe: "If you don't kiss in three days, then Ariel comes back to being a mermaid and Ursula catches her."
::slight pause::
Bryce: "Why don't we just blow up Ursula?"
This morning, as I was getting ready for work, Aidan said he wants to come to work with me sometime this week. And he mentioned that he wanted to wear a tie when he goes.
Bryce: "Why do you want to wear a tie?"
Aidan: "Because I like to be a handsome guy, Bryce."
So, in the last couple of weeks, Aidan and Bryce have been introduced to Indiana Jones and the whole swashbuckling archaeologist meme that comes with the release of the new Indy film later this month.
I mean, come on, between the Dr. Pepper cans, the Indy Lego commercials... and the fact that Aunt Laura popped the DVD in the player and showed them a few scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark the other night while she was babysitting.. I mean, apart from that, we've been doing our level best to protect them from these kinds of pop culture influences. We promise.
Okay, so say what you will, but Bryce, the newly minted 4-year old, has gone totally Indiana Jones crazy.
He's stalking around the house in his new Pre-K khakis, a button-down shirt buttoned half-way up, and a costume cowboy hat, with a coil of rope tethered to his belt loop.. we haven't captured this on camera yet, but it will only be a matter of time.
But even that's not the best part of this story.
So Bryce and his friend Maddie are in the kitchen-- Bryce in his Indy garb-- doing something when Maddie, who is completely fascinated with all things creepy-crawly notices that a small trail of ants have made it into the house near our back door. Bryce pushes his hat back on his head a bit as he looks down on the marching line of ants, then puts one hand on his hip and mutters... and I'm not making this up...
"Bugs... why'd it have to be bugs."
Next up: Star Wars. Oh yes. Star Wars.
Bryce this morning, yelling in protest against having to go to school this morning:
"My job is not going to school; my job is Batman's job. Batman doesn't go to school."
So Bryce is safely delivered to school now, in his Batman pajamas and mask. Any evil-doers at the pre-school better watch out!
A few more notes on the snow..
when the boys woke up that morning, Aidan looked out the window and saw all the white stuff he said "Yes! Thank you, God!"
Bryce: "Boy, that sure is a lot of snow!"
Aidan: "Now that's what I'm talkin' about!"
Dumped some more pictures and little video clips from the last few days off the camera last night, so I'm going to try to post some of the highlights today..
Here's the first one.. Bryce and I were listening to some Christmas music in the kitchen the other day when, as he's munching on some grapes, he blurted out "Jesus is the newborn king.."
Of course, he gets all coy after I grab the camera and, as you'll see, I have to give him a bit more prodding, but you get the idea.. :)
