Conversations with Monkeys

Me:  Tooter, where's your right hand?
Toot:  Here!  (holds out his right hand)
Me:  So, that makes this your left hand, yes?
Toot:  NO!  That's my other hand!


Scene:
I'm in J's closet hanging up clothes, and Poodle comes running in, breathlessly, after having been at Walmart with Tooter and Jmk.
Poodle:  Mommy!!!  We're back!  And we got Cheetos AND chocolate pudding!  I just ADORE chocolate pudding!

(The "adore" thing made me laugh.  It's not a word I use regularly, and I haven't the slightest idea where it came from.)


Just for my own failing memory, I have to note that Sparkie has been getting the hiccups now for about a week.  Well, I've been feeling her hiccups for about a week now.  I remember, when pregnant with Poodle, that she would get emphatic hiccups every single day (if not multiple times a day) and it was just a "thing" with her pregnancy.  Tooter certainly got them, but not nearly as much as Poodle did.  So, it's just a milestone, for lack of a better word, for me to note when I start feeling the hiccups.  :-)

I have so many updates I need to give out for the family folks - pictures and updates from our swim lessons, videos from this past week at Singing School at church, etc.  And I will get around to those just as soon as......  um........  they add extra hours to a day?  Maybe?  Yikes!