Dammit Blogger, where are my pictures??

May is birthday season for Monkey 1 and Monkey 2, and it is always a huge cake festival.

Monkey 2 requested cat cupcakes to take to school.

 Delicious cupcakes all nekkid and yummy, waiting for decoration.

Each cake has icing, then coordinating sprinkles, with ready made icing from a tube.  I tried a few different kinds of eyes, but in the end settled on tiny marshmallows, snipped into thirds with scissors, and sticking the sticky side down on the cake.  I liked how the snipping squashed the slices slightly to make them eye shaped.

She loved the cakes a lot.  From all reports they were popular at school.

Yesterday when we were coming home from camping, Monkey 1 was disappointed that he didn't get to see or catch a yabby. The Love Of My Life told him that next time we will take some meat and some string and catch one with them. Monkey 1 asked what kind of meat, like steak or something. TLOML agreed that steak would be good. Monkey 2 asked me what was that thing that came out of me after Monkey 4 was born. I told her it was a placenta. She suggested that maybe we should take the placenta out of the freezer and use it to catch yabbies. I told her that when she makes a placenta of her own she can choose what she does with it, and that we are not taking Monkey 4's placenta yabbying...

Points for lateral thinking - 50
Points for taste and tact - minus a zillion

In the car on the way to school this morning, we were discussing cousins and aunts and uncles. I described how my mum had brothers and sisters, and that their kids were my cousins. Then it went on like this

me - so when Monkey 1 has kids and is a dad, and Monkey 2 has kids and is a mum, then your kids will be cousins, and I will be a Nana

Monkey 1 - and I will be an Uncle

Monkey 2 - and I will be an Auntie

Monkey 3 - and I will be a helicopter pilot.

So we will be right for extended family and transportation.

At the dinner table. Monkey 3 (4 yrs old) tastes his chilled cordial

Monkey 3 - this tastes like lemonade
me - yes, it does a bit
Monkey 3 - it has got water and lemons and sugar and hextacy in it
me and the love of my life - (eyes bugging out)
me - why does it have hextacy in it?
Monkey 3 - to make it taste like lemonade.

I think I might check the cordial ingredients more carefully before I buy that brand again...


Still at the dinner table. Monkey 2 (6 years old) is telling me (33 years old) about a former classmate and the special crayons he used

me - I don't remember him
Monkey 2 - that is probably because your brain is getting old and you don't remember things.

thanks sweetie.

I thought that I understood a fair bit about the monkeys. Seems I still have a lot to learn... Monkey 2 drew a picture of her innards about a year ago, it had a stomach for dinner and a much bigger stomach for dessert. Ok, makes sense.

But today we had this conversation
me - pooh what a stink, who farted?
everyone else - no, not me
me - well someone did, this house reeks
Monkey 2 - is it Saturday or Sunday?
me - it is Saturday
Monkey 2 - well, I never fart on Saturday, so it couldn't have been me.

who knew?

What music would you put on when your Monkey 2 (just turned 5) asks for the song called "Alleluia", but doesn't want the "Hallelujah" from Shrek?

She gave me these lyrics to go on

"Alleluia, ina chiser, your messiah"

Now we aren't a religious household, and I thought it unlikely that she would have heard these Christian type terms in a song around here.

Turns out she was after "Venus" by Bananarama :)