[SCENE: Int., Voiture de Stijl. PHIL, VICTORIA, and NORA are en route to Tennessee.]
PHIL: This rain is awful.
VICTORIA: Yeah. I wonder if it's going to rain all day?
PHIL: You can check on my iPhone. Just look under my favorite links for Weather Underground.
[VICTORIA looks online and finds that, aside from a storm in the Southwest, all the precipitation in the country is following a line along the exact route we're following.]
VICTORIA: This is hilarious. [shows PHIL the map.]
PHIL: Your weather forecast by Travis!
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The View From Here
[SCENE: Int., Maison de Stijl, Chambre. It is the morning before NORA's fourth birthday, and NORA has just tromped into PHIL and VICTORIA's room to say good morning.]
NORA: Mama, I love Dado!
PHIL: I love you too, Nora.
NORA: Dado, I love Mama!
VICTORIA: I love you too, Nora.
NORA: And I looooooooove civil disobedience!
Hoooo boy, does she ever!
Yes, spawn is now four, and is she ever four. Phil has the pictures, most of which involve candles and small children decorating chocolate cake with jelly beans and chocolate sprinkles. (The small children also helped me make homemade macaroni and cheese with Raclette and Emmenthaler, and it was, if I do say so myself, awesome.) I think we got at least one picture of Nora's birthday balloons, mostly because Nora insisted that they actually said "Happy Birthday, 4th Nora."
But I think what most sums up Nora's birthday for me was hearing the tromping of excited children upstairs, going upstairs to check on saidsame children, and seeing three children jumping on her bed, chanting in unison: "One kid at a time! One kid at a time!" I just shook my head and walked away.
They know the rules. They just.......oh, whatever. It's a party! I like a party.
Oh, and one more thing about Nora? She is almost five. "I am! Because when you are one, you are almost two. And when you are two, you are almost three. And when you are three, you are almost four. So I am four, and that means I am almost five." I figure by the transitive property of aging she is "almost paying for her own rent," which I am in favor of, though I have to admit I kind of like having her around.
NORA: Mama, I love Dado!
PHIL: I love you too, Nora.
NORA: Dado, I love Mama!
VICTORIA: I love you too, Nora.
NORA: And I looooooooove civil disobedience!
Hoooo boy, does she ever!
Yes, spawn is now four, and is she ever four. Phil has the pictures, most of which involve candles and small children decorating chocolate cake with jelly beans and chocolate sprinkles. (The small children also helped me make homemade macaroni and cheese with Raclette and Emmenthaler, and it was, if I do say so myself, awesome.) I think we got at least one picture of Nora's birthday balloons, mostly because Nora insisted that they actually said "Happy Birthday, 4th Nora."
But I think what most sums up Nora's birthday for me was hearing the tromping of excited children upstairs, going upstairs to check on saidsame children, and seeing three children jumping on her bed, chanting in unison: "One kid at a time! One kid at a time!" I just shook my head and walked away.
They know the rules. They just.......oh, whatever. It's a party! I like a party.
Oh, and one more thing about Nora? She is almost five. "I am! Because when you are one, you are almost two. And when you are two, you are almost three. And when you are three, you are almost four. So I am four, and that means I am almost five." I figure by the transitive property of aging she is "almost paying for her own rent," which I am in favor of, though I have to admit I kind of like having her around.
Monday, December 01, 2008
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