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My kids love biskini. I love biskini. My husband will even eat biskini. We had it for dinner a couple nights ago -- roasted, with parmesan cheese. Yum. Do you like biskini? What? You've never heard of biskini? It's a vegetable (Well, it's really a fruit, but it's a vegetable at our house). You know...green...part of the squash family...looks similar to a cucumber. What?
Zucchini? Oh, wait...you're right. It
is zucchini, not...biskini. But don't tell Annabelle.
Annabelle and I sat crouched in front of the oven, checking on the zucchini when she exclaimed, "Yook at the biskini!!!!!" My kids make me laugh on an hourly basis. This was one of those times. I don't know why her mispronunciation of zucchini hit me so funny, but I was immediately thrown into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. Annabelle laughed too, not because she thought she was funny, but because I was funny. Maybe I laughed because she was so excited about the zucchini. Maybe it was because she said "biskini" in all seriousness. Maybe it was just that "biskini" is a funny word. I don't know. What I do know is, this green vegetable will be referred to as biskini for the foreseeable future, simply because it makes me laugh.
And the word fun continued at the dinner table, this time with Jacob. Just as he finished his dinner, Jacob announced, "Hey, I have two frinkles!" Heath and I looked at each other. Frinkles? What in the world? "You have two frinkles?" I asked. Jacob quickly replied, "Yes, here and here!" He pointed to a spot on his arm and another on his leg. "Frinkles!" I suddenly got it. "Oh, you mean
freckles!" I said. Heath and I both started laughing. Jacob just looked at us very matter-of-factly and responded, "Yes, freckles...see?" He was still pointing them out. I like it when Jacob messes up a word now and then. He's so smart. When I hear a "frinkle" I am reminded that he is only five and he is still little. :)
Last night on the way home from church, I was awed by the beautiful full moon. Jacob and Annabelle liked it too. Annabelle has always been fascinated by the moon. I asked Jacob if he knew what caused the moon to be so bright. "I don't know," he quickly answered. "The moon doesn't shine like the sun," I said. "The sun's rays reflect off the moon and make it appear to be shining." Jacob interrupted me to say, "Oh I know that," Then he continued. "...and when there is a lunar eclipse, the earth blocks the sun's rays and makes the moon look red."
This from the kid who, two nights before, said he had frinkles. I was astonished. "That's right, Jacob," was all I could say. He must have read about that in a book because I don't remember ever talking about lunar eclipses with him.
And then, again, he reminds me that he's only five....
The sticker on his head came from a banana peel. It says, "Place sticker on forehead. Smile." And that's exactly what Jacob did. He follows instructions so well. :) What am I talking about? Yeah...if I'd have found that sticker on my banana, it would have been on my forehead. Goofiness runs in the family.
Right under the moon, we noticed a particularly bright star. Thanks to the Google Sky app on Heath's phone, we discovered that it wasn't a star at all. It was Jupiter. When we walked inside, Annabelle begged to go back outside to "see da pwanet." Heath took her out again. Like I said, she's always been fascinated with the moon...and the stars...and now, apparently, the planets. She woke up somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00 AM, stumbled down the hall and over to my side of the bed. "We can go outside to see the pwanet!" she whispered. As I walked her back to bed, she talked in a high whisper about Jupiter and how Daddy took a picture of it with his phone (he didn't -- he was using Google Sky) and how she wanted to go outside and see that pwanet again. I tucked her back in bed, told her we couldn't see it anymore, and kissed her forehead. Amazingly, she seemed ok with that. But, three hours later, when she woke up for the second time, the first thing she said was, "I want to go see the pwanet!"
