The Birds & the Bees... No Peeping Toms Please!

We've shared a very limited, age-appropriate amount of information regarding "the birds & the bees" with Evangelina, but it's still funny to hear her own iteration of the process.

Earlier I went to tuck her back into bed when she'd gotten up (to pee), and as one who loves BIG HUGS, she asked me to hug her from on top of her, to which I told her "No, that's not appropriate.  I'll leave that to your husband.  I'll just hug you from the side here."

She thought about it for a moment, then responded, "When my husband & I are trying to make a baby, you can just monitor us."

One brain, Two bodies (FOR MINA'S BLOG)

From: Jadon Wu <Jadon.Wu@ocsarts.net>
Date: April 2, 2021 at 5:10:04 PM 
Subject: One brain, Two bodies (FOR MINA'S BLOG)

Written by Jadon

Recently, Mina and I were eating, me sitting at the table in the sunroom, and Mina quietly sitting at the table in the kitchen. I was happily doing my Ardent while drinking some orange juice when I suddenly and obnoxiously burped. Less than one second after I burped (I was just about to say "excuse me"), Mina said "Sorry." I looked at her and she was intently paying attention to her Zoom class. Then, she added, "Excuse me." 

Getting UP with Messed-DOWN Words

Our little lady has a really funny, oblivious way with words sometimes.  A few days ago on our way upstairs, she asked me, "Hey Dad, you wanna do a hammer-up?"

"A 'hammer-up'???" I asked,  "what's a --"

And then I realized what she meant.  A few days ago I introduced her to the old improvisational comedy television show "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" in which various comedians spontaneously make up dramas or ditties based on cues and suggestions from the audience.  Evangelina & I have long had fun with rhymes and spontaneous poetic chants, and she's had a funny knack for it, so I thought she might take a special liking to one of the TV show's games called "Hoedown," in which the comedians have to make up lines to a given hoedown song on a spontaneously given topic.  

Apparently, she'd forgotten what the game was called!

Maybe I'll sing this not-quite-so-spontaneous hoe-down for her tomorrow:

On our way upstairs, my girl looked up at me,

"Can we sing together, oh please oh please Daddy?

Let do that thing that often makes us rather stumped

I forget now what it's called, was it a 'Hammer-Up'?

sample of the show: Whose line is it anyway - Season 1 hoedowns part 1

Whose line is it anyway - Season 1 hoedowns part 1