six for saturday

1. This girl has decided that she will no longer respond to the name Eva. She is now Boo the Little Ghost. When we inadvertently call her by her former name, she gently corrects us. Each and every time.

M: Eva, come get your shoes on.
E: You mean Boo the Little Ghost?
M: (sighing in resignation) Yes, I mean Boo the Little Ghost.

It was kind of cute the first 4 or 5 times she did it, but we're going on a week now, and everyone's patience is running a little thin on this one.

2. On Monday night, we started a game of Cities & Knights of Catan. It took us four nights to finish the game, what with Mutual and homework and waiting until Eva was in bed. When I won on Thursday, Lucas proposed that we immediately begin another game. Marc won tonight, and we started another round. I'm not sure how long we can go doing this every night, but we're getting in some quality time with the boys!

3. It was red ribbon week at school and Lucas had crazy hair day yesterday. Fortunately for him, I haven't taken him in for a haircut yet, so there was a lot of hair to work with. Marc used four hair products to get it to do this, and I'm not sure if that includes the black hairspray they used at the end. Lucas now wants to wear his hair like this every day.

4. I invited Hannah and her girls to come over on Friday. With Jill out of town, I was afraid I would be sad without any semblance of Creative Friday. I worked on tags, cards, and good mail, and Hannah was a book-folding maniac. Eva could not have been more thrilled to have Mya as a playmate.

I made Robyn's pumpkin crumb cake. I loved it! It forms two layers: the bottom layer is like pumpkin pie filling, and the top layer is like crumb cake. I love pumpkin pie, but I'm not a huge crust person, so for me this dessert is a fabulous pie/cake combination. Max liked it, Marc didn't really care about it, and Lucas and Eva didn't try it. But little Miss Kaylee loved it!

5. I finished this book yesterday. Oh my. I couldn't put it down, I had to push through to the end, but I never wanted it to end. Even with my abysmal memory, I feel certain that Wanderer and Naduah and Takes Down the Lodge and Medicine Woman and Quanah and John Parker will stay with me.

This is one of those books I don't think I ever would have picked up on my own. I didn't think I had any interest in Native American stories. What a mistake that would have been. Thanks, Jess!

6. Marc and I have been working on our garage on Saturdays. Today was the third Saturday in a row, and I'm finally starting to see some improvement. That's how bad it is.

We have found many many "pointy words" (that's mouse turds, for those of you who haven't seen Stick It). It is so disgusting! Marc was mopping up the floor with ammonia and wearing the cute polka dot rubber gloves that Lisa P. sent me ages ago. He had to know I was going to document that! In his defense, they're the only rubber gloves I have, but why would I go back to plain yellow??