Why We Discriminate Based on Color

The Mayor hates sorting laundry.  If a garment can't hack it with everything else, there are serious doubts whether such a garment should be in the closet in the first place.  The Mayor came home today and as he was sorting several loads of clean laundry he had washed last night (in large, unsorted loads as is his way), he picked up a beautiful, large purple shirt and started tearing up, thinking how fast his little girl is growing up.

Then he found another one of her beautiful, very large purple shirts.

And another.

And more purple towels and socks than his pink-loving girl could possibly own.

And that is the story of how the Mayor learned to sort laundry.

Can't Keep A Girl Down

Last night the Mayor was jamming in his workshop on his Les Paul guitar, with the hobbitlings providing song requests and playing along on various instruments and tools.  When it was Ela's turn to pick, she thought long and hard (as she was deciding, the knowing Mayor pulled up the chords to the Cafeteria Song from Equestria Girls), then Ela finally settled on the Cafeteria Song from Equestria Girls.

 

She said, "Wait just a minute - I'll be right back," but the Mayor jumped in , "No, you may not go upstairs and get dressed up in your Equestria Girls outfit."  Not to be denied, she quietly busied herself with the bedsheet curtains outside the Mayor's shop, then slipped her arms into the puffed sleeve "dress" she had created with clothespins and announced, "OK, I'm ready now!"

We love Ela's absolutely irrepressible style!

Friday pictures

Seimi has been letting Ela practice her fashion design skills on him.  Here he's showing off the latest fall fashion of leaf bouquets and dandelion crowns. 

 Here's Mr. Eejee trying out the "Jackie Jormp-Jomp"

post-op attire review

"no, i look like a real sniper.  ela looks like a combat weatherman."
boookie, age 9

let it be known

our resident four year-old concludes the following (with a little help from his older siblings):

daddy is a friendly introvert...
mommy is an unfriendly introvert (said slyly, with a giggle)...
boookie is an extra-extrovert...
sissy is just a plain ole' introvert...
"i'm a friendly introvert, like daddy"...
and the teething four month-old is "an unpleasant extrovert!"

hollering, with hands over his ears

"MOMMY, JUST STICK EEJEE BACK INSIDE YOUR TUMMY!"
seimi, age 4, in response to his baby brother's livid outcry against the tyranny of teething

(mommy's response? "are you kidding?!? it's angry and it has fangs!!!") 

the boookie proverbs

chapter 1 - on military strategy
"never, ever, ever, ever, ever trust any ring of power."

Seat Work

School has started at the Northwestfarthingshire Institute of Higher Learning at Michael Delving and the hobbitlings love their school routine.  The Hobbit Wife is doing well with the routine, too.  Here are some pictures of the hobbitlings enjoying the best part of school - recess!

Eejee showing off his back-arching skills

 Ela and Eej

 Mr. Eejee enjoying being the king.

Advanced Advancement

At just past four months, Mr. Eejee is over 16 pounds and is the most energetic baby Michael Delving has ever seen!  He loves his bouncy seat and is really good at getting that thing going.



Though they resisted efforts to be photographed, hidden in this cute baby mouth are two little teeth. 

The slightly-edited words of Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest come to mind as regards Mr. Eejee's recent and rapid growth.

 

"I don't know whether there is anything peculiarly exciting about the air in this particular part of Hertfordshire, but the number of milestones that are achieved seem to me to be considerably above the proper average that statistics have laid down for our guidance."

Imagination Maintenance

Can I come inside and read for a while?  It's kind of like my imaginative world energy levels are getting low and my thinking is getting overheated like a chain gun.  I need to recharge and cool my imagination energy with reading. -Boookie, age 9, after playing outside, getting "imaginative wiggles" out

Sons of Thunder

Seimi and Eejee have enjoyed getting acquainted

Mr. Eejee playing in his crib.

The old is new

The hobbitling boys have a new favorite album, AC-DC's Back in Black.  They only listen to some of the tracks, but it turns out they already knew a number of the tracks from movies.  The Mayor realized he had to purchase the album after hearing a 4-year-old's rendition of "Back in Black" being belted out from the bathroom toilet stage.

When he was a wee lad, the Mayor used to dance to the "worldly" rock music being blasted by the Wazzu college kids across the street, saying, "I can't help it, Mama - the music makes me dance!"

Tanks for Breakfast

I don't want to eat oatmeal.  I wish I was driving a tank! - Seimi, age 4

 

Also available as an inspirational poster.

Huge Bluberries

Those were the biggest blueberries I ever seen in my life! -Seimi, age 4, after eating a plum he picked off the sidewalk as we walked back from the grocery store

Cabbage fun

The residents of Michael Delving spent the weekend down at the cabbage with GranDma and Apu.  The hobbitlings were overjoyed to drink coffee with breakfast both mornings we were there.

 

Boookie with the Navy Lodge mug.

Ela with the Hugmug from Great Grandma Ruth 

 Seimi with a Starbucks Demi mug.

 Eejee, aka Eej, seen here posing in his moustache jammies with his moustache.