Overheard

Literally I heard this over my head as I lay in the dentist chair: One day I was going to exercise at home and my 4 year old daughter told me she would join me. I placed the workout dvd in the player and got right into the sweat of things. After about 5 minutes into the workout, my daughter turned to me, looked me up and down and said, "Mom. It's not working."

First Time Movie Goer

For Pearce's 5th birthday, Peter and I brought him to see Cars 2 with what Peter likes to call, " his creepy little friends." Anyway, as this was Pearce's first time to see a movie on the big screen everything was a learning experience...like where the big screen is hiding.

As we enter the empty theater ( we were there @ 9:30 for a 10:10am Snday movie!) Pearce did a complete 360 review of the theater space in awww.  Having missed the just slightly larger than Uncle Vinay and Uncle Kyle's home screens, his only question was, " Where's the TV?"

Noah

Back to Pearce ( he's the one speaking the most around here right now, so get used to it!) and God.

With temperatures expected to top out at 117 degrees, last Friday, I told Pearce he could play outside for 5 minutes at a time, but then he needed to come inside to hydrate and cool off.

Becoming anxious about his hockey game (Pearce vs Bromley) getting interuppted, his plead to extend his outside playing time was as follows...

"God came down to me, it wasn't a dream, and told me I would be fine... even without the water."

Work on the ark, starts tomorrow.

Book of Pearce

Most of Pearce's profound thoughts are spoken from the 3rd row of the car. They are usually following a moment of contemplation staring out the window.  Last week, the silence was broken with his insightful plan for life after death.

" If I get hurt in Heaven, I am going to ask God for a Lighting McQueen AND Spiderman band-aid, since you can get anything you want in heaven. He'll make it with his hands like he made us... "

I must also explain where the extension of the above comment was derived. Pearce has been fortunate enough to only experience death through the loss of his Great Grandfather Brittain...last year. Around 6 months after the passing of Pops, Pearce would become sad and tell me it was because he missed Pops. So I would hug and love him and comfort him. Seems, he caught onto this and worked it to his advantage. Almost everytime he didn't get something he wanted, he would pull out the puppy dog eyes and say, "I just miss Pops so much."

Soooo, with that short side note, I continue with his car thoughts following the band-aid plan. "...he'll make it with his hands like he made us. And I think we should go to church even more since it makes me feel better when I miss Pops."

He's onto something.

Me Too

Now that McCullough's speech has been catching up, she has a new nickname as a result of her recent favorite phrase, " Me Too."

She applied this new phrase in perfect context over the July 4th weekend in Vermont.  While eating a baby carrot, her Great Grandma Dot entered the room, and McCullough offered to share her snack. Great Grandma Dot turn downed the carrot with , "No thank you. I can't eat carrots. I don't have enough teeth." Without a beat McCullough said with a slight shrug of her shoulders, "Yeah, me too."

Weirdest thing...

There is a cover on the fire alarm @ the Y now. Hmmm...

Birth Order Stereotypes

In response to Uncle Denny's Comment...My guess is that it was the younger brother, who dared the middle child.

Older brother told his mother while batting his eyelashes, "I'm glad it wasn't me who pulled the fire alarm. I would only do that if you told me to mom."

The Girl Who Called Wolf...Part II

Seems I gave my blogging audience too much room for imagination in The Girl Who Cried Wolf...Part I.

Here it is...

Cully pulled the fire alarm at the local YMCA.

The fire department. And the police. And the paramedics had to come.  3/4 of the facility evacuated, AOA  (active adult athletes) in the swim gear and mothers in a panic who left their sweat in the Zumba class came sashaying over the child care. All to realize that they were victims of the infamous McCullough Marie and the unfortunate location and lack of proper protection of said fire alarm.

You can now find me cruising on the bike ( http://www.expresso.net/UserPortal/welcome.do) at the gym 20 minutes north of the Y!

Oh, and when Peter came home she said immediately with her guilty as charged frow of the brows,
"Sorry for pulling fire alarm."  Followed by a senior prank grin and giggle... "Me Joke!"

The Girl Who Called Wolf...

Use your imagination to guess what happened prior to the picture below.
Hint: Recognize the little barn occupant in the bottom left corner?