snakes on a head...

the duke is sweet...

for latin he had to write a sentence in latin and in english that included at least three derivatives...

he wrote

The poet went to Argentina to see a movie.

what a sweet sentence...because i just assumed he'd write something along the lines of

The army bloodily and loudly defeated the enemy.

sometimes when he's singing devo songs really loudly while NOT doing his school work AND pestering his brother i forget that he can be a sweet and clever child...

wingman is in a phase now wherein he wants to know the truth...he's always asking really? when you tell him something...like he really really wants to know whether you're kidding or not...for instance yesterday i pulled a big twig with thorns out of his hair...his hair is so big and long and curly the most amazing things get caught in it...once he had a little wooden train car trapped in it...really...

anyhow, after i pulled the twig out later on in the day i said

"hey wingman, you've got something in your hair"

"what is it?"

"oh, i got it...it was a snake...boy it slithered away quickly!"

"really?"

(only he can't do his "r's" so it comes out willy?...which is willy cute but something we are definitely working on)

where as before he would have known i was kidding and just rolled with it...

he's becoming jaded in his old age...and very literal...i don't like literal...it's such a bothersome trait in people...because you can't bullshit with them...

plus when you take things literally, you tend to correct people...a lot...i don't like to be corrected...by anyone...

but especially not by someone i had to carry in my body and then expel in a painful and in my case always life threatening process...

and double especially not by the same someone who still needs me to help him wipe his butt...

it's a will dwag...

x.

dinner tonight

if i've got one cup of red lentils i've got a million...ditto on cans of garbanzo beans...so tonight's dinner comes straight from the cupboard...

dal
hummus
pita bread
sliced tomatoes and dry cured black olives

i love dal...the lord of the ring makes it better than i do, but i'll make it tonight...i have some fresh cayenne peppers i got at the farmer's market where we camped that i'd LOVE to put in there, but wingman wouldn't be able to handle that kind of heat...he likes some spicy stuff, but not *that* spicy!...so just a lightly spiced dal...

hummus is so good and healthy and easy...and good lord in addition to all the garbanzos i've got two bottles of tahini!...originally i thought of making falafel, but we don't have any parsley or any peanut oil and i'm continuing my *use what we have policy* so no store trips!...the pita is left over from camping and the tomatoes need to be eaten TODAY...the olives were at the back of the fridge and were largely forgotton about...boy are they good...