Thoughts from the 4-year old...

Today Oakli said:

"Steak is my favorite vegtable."

(short slience while she thinks for a moment)

"Mom, is it a fruit?"

Hunh.

Spiderwebs ~ Day 27

Oakli wanted me to let the whole world know (because you don't know) that all grown-ups have "spider-webs" in their noses.

Hunh.

Blog Stalking ~ Day 20

Ambri asks me once in a while, "whose blog is that?" and I reply, "I have no idea." She looks at me strangely and then walks away. Here is one of those that I found today while "Blog Stalking".


We ate at the Olive Garden tonight.

There was a time in my life, a younger time, when I thought very highly of the Olive Garden. True Italian! Bottomless bread sticks! They taught you Italian while you peed! What more could you want?

With age, time, I have grown out of this love - sure, they still have fantastic bread sticks and salads, but it ends there. They even got rid of my favorite, my usual, Chicken Giardino. And the chocolate lasagna? No where to be found. Either my tastes have grown, or ye olde Olive Garden has slipped from it's standings.

Yet there we sat tonight, a $25 gift card in our hands, waiting for our food. And while I wait, I tend to slip into habits. People watching habits. Mark* hates this, can't stand when I stare at people and is always trying to reign me in.

Tonight however, proved to be worthwhile.

I sat watching a group of three women at the table next to us. First because the one kept answering her cell phone, which I sort of find to be rude. (People watching though? Nah...) And then their bread sticks were served.

One of them pulled out a stick of butter FROM HOME, WRAPPER STILL ATTACHED and rubbed it onto her bread stick before each bite.

I wish I was making this up.

It gets better though, not only was she dipping her bread stick in butter, but she was talking, nay, GUSHING about how much she loved butter.

"I LOVE butter. Not margarine, nuh uh, I'm talkin' REAL BUTTAH..."

Mark practically had to put blinders on me. I couldn't stop the staring. How was I supposed to resist that?!


Hunh.

A Humorous Take ~ Day 12

Right now we are having a thunder and lightning storm (with rain, of coarse). Oakli just woke up from her nap and came down and promptly informed us all (remember, she's just 3) that the clouds are "peeing".

Hunh.

Marathon #2 for Doug (yes, all 26.2 miles of it!)

2 weeks ago Doug finished his 2nd marathon. He did so goood this time! He cut 1 hr and 45 minutes off his time from last year. This was his 2nd year running the Newport marathon.

This year my brother (Bart) and sister-in-law (Heidi) came to Oregon and ran the marathon with Doug. They all finished and I'm so proud of all of them!

Why did the chicken cross the road?

I'm not sure yet, but when I find one that will answer for me, I'll let you know.

We're on vacation in Hawaii right now (Kauai) and there are chickens everywhere. I just think it is really funny and I saw chickens crossing the road and I kept asking why did the chicken cross the road. They didn't answer me.