I like oranges and purple too

Says Wil, as he eats an orange.

He also took gramma's hand and asked her why it is old.

Ben asked her if she'd ever been to jail (I redirected that question to Grandpa, who has an interesting answer)

And Zac ate 2 packs of her gum.

What can *I* do for some fun?
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Here's a conversation with William. My boss called me at home on Wednesday and also sent me an email. I got the email and read "...I tried to call you at home and a sweet little voice answered and said you were busy....". So, I was very curious who she talked to. Options were really Ben and Wil. Later that day they were sitting together and I asked them who had talked with her. They both said "he did it!". Wils had the guilty look, so I said to him:

"Wil, are you sure it wasn't you?"

"Not me!" he said, "and besides, I only told her you were busy."
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Leo drags his butt around the living floor all the time like he is trying to get a good suction.
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The season approaches and it is even busier for us than for most people (and I am the last person to say "busier than thou"; as a matter of fact I HATE that attitude). Brian works round the clock 6 days a week and this year I will be working full time as well. The good thing is his hours will have to be shorter by necessity so maybe he will feel better than he usually does. Interesting, though, a phenomenon I've noticed in years past. It doesn't matter if he's actually busy and tired or not, the day after Thanksgiving he decides to be stupid for a month. Here is a conversation from last December:

Brian: What's your schedule this week?
Me: School Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Brian: I know.
Me: Then why'd you ask?
Brian: I don't know.

Great. The good news is that this year I've added a new medication.

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We just went through a round of the barfing flu at our house. There is nothing quite like the barfing flu when you have 5 young kids. My favorite moment was when Ana long-distance barfed off Elijah's top bunk. Then, when I got hit.................................it was that kind where you can't tell what exactly you are excreting from either end.

Lij had a point where I was starting to ask him a question and as I was doing so he bent over to barf and at the same time held up a finger like "Just a minute, let me barf first". Finished his business, wiped his mouth, and said "What?"