After school Brinley is talking about how there might be a thief in her classroom as things keep going missing.
“If they catch the thief there’s gonna be a big punishment,” she considers.
“Yeah,” says Micah, “Maybe a pie to the face.”
Amazed at Micah’s growth over the past year, Sarah tells him, “Buddy, we’re going to have to get you some new winter boots!”
Micah replies, “And I will have to go to the hospital and get some growing pains.”
Walking out of H&M where he got a space scene sweatshirt with fun sequins, Micah says, “This is my dreams-come-true sweatshirt.”
Brin and I wonder if the summer construction at her school is complete, so we decide to drive past and take a look.
“If it’s not done,” she says cheerily, “I’m going to be pissed out.”
Another day, another long round of Micah sitting on the toilet.
“My soul doesn’t want me to poop.”
Micah after sitting on the toilet for 20 minutes: “I wanna have poops, but my butt doesn’t.”
“Oh no!” says Micah, aghast that there’s a gaping hole in a neighborhood house’s fence that’s being worked on. “Now we can see their naked house!”
“I just love the Fourth of July!” says Brinley, walking out of the fireworks tent, laden with bags of little fireworks.
“You sure do, Goose.”
“On the Fourth of July you’ll see what happens to me,” she adds with a smirk. “I sure love it.”
Sarah to Brinley: “What do you want to see at Costco?”
Brinley: “The meat bakery!”
She meant “deli”.
“Daddy, I want to eat gumdrops someday,” says Micah. “They look like gum, and you can drop ‘em in your mouth.”