Micah gets up from the couch, his stomach rumbling. “I’m getting an applesauce because I’m getting hungrier by the minute.”
Commenting on the cold and grey look outside, Micah says, “It looks like it’s back in the days.”
Micah: “Let’s play McDonalds.”
Sarah: “Okay, I’ll do the drive-thru.”
Micah: “Well, your meal’s gonna take longer cause it’s gonna be messed up.”
Sarah: “Okay, how about chicken nuggets and a slushie?”
Micah: “We’re out of the blue ones.”
Micah chews a piece of licorice for the very first time. “It smells bad…” takes a beat. “And it taste-es the same.”
A few days after Groundhog Day Brin asks me, “Wait, what was the groundhog’s name? Hunkadavius Phil?”
Micah picks out a button-up shirt and asks for help buttoning it. “I want to look good today, like I’m in the sunshine mood.”
Brinley has a play date with a friend later today. “Ooh!” says Micah. “When she’s gone we can yell weird stuff.”
Micah jumps up onto bed and bangs his knee against the nightstand, the pain bringing tears to his eyes. Between sobs he says, “I wish getting hurt wasn’t even a thing!”
We’re getting our roof replaced today. As we listen to the loud sounds coming from the roof, Brin says, “It’s like if a hailstorm had hammers.”
While walking home from school, Micah notices an unusual number of birds flocking in the trees.
“Do we live in the kingdom of the birds?!”