July 6, 2009

• The brownies have been at it again.  One of them put a pot of blue dye under our kitchen fairy door (which is really just a small window we like to hop in and out of and use as a quicker means to the backyard)  Liz hopped through it last night and ended up dyeing herself blue, very Big Fat Liar style.   We have the footprints across the back patio, and she’s still sporting a blue foot.  More than just the household fairies were laughing about that one,  I guess they don’t like it when we use their entrance. 
   
   Normally our house is chock full of both monsters and fairies all living happily together under one roof.   But lately there’s been some sort of insurrection from the monsters, and Jamie went from being their number one groupie, to being utterly terrified of them.   He normally says a cheery goodnight to the monsters in his closet, before he goes to bed, and Monsters Inc is one of his favorite movies, and then one day his cute little brain discovered it was great fun to pretend to be scared of them, and it all went downhill from there.  I came inside at sundown the other day to find every.single.light. in the house turned on including closet lights and lamps.  Jamie was hiding under the table where he valiantly explained to me that Monsters are scared of lights.  mkay. 

  But now he has a vanquisher.  We’ve discovered the joys of making and baking polymer clay, and so we’ve been crafting frogs, and owls..and dragons.  More specifically a dragon named Maeken (as in “I’m ‘makin’ a dragon mom”  what can I say, he’s a rather literal person).  We were playing with the clay and talking about monsters, we talked about God and angels…good guys and bad guys, and somewhere in there Jamie knighted his clay dragon as God’s defender against monsters.  Ahem.  So maybe we’re still working on the finer points of theology. 

  I keep meaning to take a picture of our clay pet dragon, but until then, here are some pictures from swimming the other day.  

  
  

  

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