Catching up from Facebook

12/16/2012:

Nana: I'm glad we're going home (from Kmart).
Buster: Why are you happy we're going home?
Nana: Because I want to watch a fun movie.
Buster: Why do you want to watch a fun movie?
Nana: Because I have you to make things fun.
Buster: Why do you have me?
Nana: Because you delight me.
Buster: Why do I delight you?
Nana: Because you ask me ridiculous, repeated questions that I enjoy answering.
Buster: (Silence)

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12/15/2012:

I decided to replace or just throw out the contents of my spice cupboard. In order to know which containers had no scent anymore, Buster and I had to sniff them. If he complained of the smell, I reminded him that the worse they smelled to him, the more likely I wanted to keep them.

We made the mistake of tasting the garlic salt and had to cleanse our palates with cinnamon red hots.

Then he started sneezing (that's what happens when summer savory gets up your nose). We live in Sneezetopia! he said. Come, everyone, and get your sneezes!

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12/14/2012

Buster: I'm hungry.
Nana: What are you going to do about it?
Buster: Eat as much chocolate as I can.

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11/24/2012

We enjoyed "Nutcracker" last night, but it freaked Buster out that a stuffed, though possibly live but extremely large, mouse appeared on the wall of Clara's drawing room. Not a dancer, but the size of a dancer's head. (I didn't see it.) Otherwise, he loved the mice and complained when the Mouse King's death was acted out for the Sugar Plum Fairy: That's not how it happened! 

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11/23/2012
Nana to Buster: I don't want you to play football, I want you to be in the Ohio State band. I want you to be the sousaphone player who dots the I.

Buster: I can't dot all those people's eyes! That would take a long time!

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11/22/2012

Last night was dance class. Buster said before we left the house that he didn't like tap. But I buttonholed the teacher before they started, reminded her not to say "Let's go, girls!" and told her he was a little discouraged... after class, he burst out of the studio beaming! In their recital piece, they will be baseball players with bats and caps. He told me piously that you shouldn't run in tap shoes and he knows this because two of the girls fell down in class.

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11/17/2012

Buster, who LOVED "Stomp," is beating his drum stick on a rubber exercise ball: Thump, thump-thump-thump, thump. He says: Sing!

Nana: Sing what? I don't know this song.

Buster: Yes, you do. It's "Go, Nana, Go-oh."

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10/13/2012:

Buster to Nana, watching the Buckeyes: I don't know why you're yelling. They can't hear you. It's not like they live here.

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 9/29/2009:

Buster knows some adverbs: Drink that slowly or you'll choke, step along smartly or there will be no doughnuts. So when it started pouring last night, he remarked that it was raining hardly.
 
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 9/17/2009:

This morning as I drove away from the house with 15 things on my mind and a preschooler in the back seat, I said, "Oh, what a world, what a world." And a little voice added: "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too."