Shirley Temple

Another in a series of futile attempts to catch my kids doing something cute. Normally Sadie does this cool Shirley Temple thing where she'll trade dance steps with you. But every time she sees the camera she just wants to play with it. What is she, a year old or something? Check out the attractive clothes she's wearing. I guess that's what happens when you let her pick out her clothes.

Ah, sarcasm

The three kids enjoy a milkshake.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky defined sarcasm as "the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded." Well, never was this more true than the other day, when Soen was eating an ice cream cone and Michaela was trying to get him to go into the bathroom so he could take a much needed shower. After several minutes of her asking (and then telling) him to bust a move, she finally told him to get to the bathroom RIGHT NOW MISTER, to which he responded by holding up his ice cream cone and yelling , "You think I'm finished?? Well I'm NOT!" It was like he was momentarily possessed by a 15-year-old girl. Michaela did a rather good job of properly scolding him and getting him into the shower before cracking up. She then came over to tell me the story by starting with, "Honey I think we need to ease up on the sarcasm..."