What Passes For Lunch Conversation In My House

Kev and I are talking about a new book club for grownups at our local library and Mikro sticks his nose in, wanting to be included.

Chele: It's not a question of reading level. You read on a high school/college level; that's not the issue.

Kev: I don't know whether the books would interest you enough to finish.

Chele: Or whether they would have adult themes that aren't really appropriate for children. Like sex, for example.

Mikro: Or the dreaded topic...

Chele: (Recalling past expressions of pre-teen disgust) Romance?

Mikro: Gah! I can tolerate the first, but not the second.

Kev: (Laughs)

Chele: Which just makes you typically male.

Kev: (Laughs more.)

Chele: He is your son!

Mikro: (Somewhat indignantly) Well, I didn't say I was personally interested in either [mom notes-- which is good, because he's only 10!], but sex is interesting because of the science. You know, the biology of sperm...

Chele: (Nearly choking on soup, laughing) Trying to eat here. Go take your biology of sperm into the kitchen. Begone!

Family Silly Time

We have had a huge amount of stress to deal with during the past year or so. Sometimes it helps to just get completely silly. We are pretty good at that!

One prop, three goofy people:













The boys never get tired of messing with my attempts to take decent family photos by making silly faces:











I just get silly with a pencil (or crayon) most of the time:





Kev plays with his food. Can you see the face he sculpted in his ice cream?



And we all appreciate the weird and/or silly in the world around us (including the parking lot at Walmart...)

If You Give a Geek a Camera App

Couple of Clowns...

This is what happens when I ask my family to let me have *one good photo* for the blog...

Just Following Orders

(The sticker says: "Place sticker on forehead. Smile." First time I've obeyed a banana...)