We're Getting Very Zen

(1) Anna

Anna has a new favorite phrase. She uses it like this:

• (whine) aaaahhhh I don't want to wait [insert phrase here] for dinner!
• We're going to Cole's house for a long playdate and we're not coming home [insert phrase here]! Yaaaaaay!
  
• Jill, I don't want you to stay [insert phrase here]! I want you to stay longer!

Ready for it? Here you go:
"until the sun sets"

Go ahead, try it out. Pretty funny, eh? Best thing since Mad Libs :)
Anna knows that the sun sets around dinner time. Can't wait to try to explain Daylight Savings.

(2) Jack

If Jack had been a Native American, he absolutely would have been a medicine man.
If Jack had lived in the 19th century, he would have been one of those traveling salesman who went from small midwest town to small midwest town pulling a cart and declaring he had the cures to all your constitutional ailments.
Jack could have been one of those desert tribesmen in the English Patient who rescue Ralph Fiennes after his plane crashes, strap him on the back of their camel and treat all his burns with yogurt and cheesecloth. So that that fabulous movie starring Kristen Scott Thomas can go on. Did I mention she's my absolute favorite actress? Anyway, I digress.

Jack is all about creams, ointments, oils and lotions in attractive packaging. He will fight you for your Aquaphor. He wants to eat your baby lotion. Jack does not believe that the use of Desitin should be restricted to one's butt.
He loves it all, he believes in it all, and he wants to put it everywhere.
(By the way, we've already added "mortar and pestle" to next year's Christmas list, if you're keeping track at home...)

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And then there's Tommy. Let's just say Tommy doesn't seem to be quite so into the whole "natural" thing. Not such a big distinction for him. The other day, he saw a little's girl's duckie backpack, walked right up to it (the backpack), took a swipe at the beak and let out a massive growl.
You can imagine the backpack's owner's reaction to all this. Fortunately, at the time it was strapped to the back of her stroller or things could have gotten awkward.