Scatterbrained

I think I'm giving up on organized, thematic, detailed blog entries until this semester is over (and I'm not the one taking classes). You'll just get lists for the next few weeks.

• We've been listening to Prince a lot this year thanks to awesome 3 disc compelation from JoJo and Bacon. Collin has taken to calling him, "The Prince" - as in, "Mom, is this 'the Prince' singing?" It's funny to me how that little "the" changes him meaning so much, which cracks us up.
  
• Speaking of language, Cayla and Collin continue to make up words on a regular basis. The more developed their language becomes, the more they make it up. Today at Dayla's they spent about 30 minutes cooking "cabash" or "cavash". It's a hot food that needed to be baked, fried, and just COOKED! It contained peanut butter, honey, and meat. The play food they used to make it looked suspiciously like latkes and geld. And, they never allowed the adults to taste it, so I can't tell you anymore.
  
• After dinner, Collin was walking around with a piece of confetti shaped like a balloon (thanks, Grandma, it's EVERYWHERE!) and asking some garbled question about balloons, neighbors, and holes. After asking him to repeat himself 10 times, we figured out he was wondering if he pushed the piece of confetti though our rug would it fall through a hole onto our downstairs neighbors. It took me all evening to convince him that in addition to a rug between us and the rooms below us, there is wood and other stuff. In fact, I don't think I ever convinced him, but he's in bed now.
  
• Flannery taught her Stats class today and apparently quite a few people came up to her after class and asked her if she's ever considered teaching. Her answer is a resounding NO, but the topic has been breached many times this semester. It's not like she'd be the first in her family.
  
• Rocking out to the iPod