Just so I remember

Zoe thinks that the singular of "clothes" is "a cloe". She also thinks that when I say "a knife" I'm saying "an ife". She'll sometimes tell me she wants "the blue ife".

Quinn says thank you now, but he pronounces it "gan-ku", and he growls it out like a Klingon. He seems to think it's what you say to threaten the person who might take your banana back. And he sings all the time. I'm thinking he'll be a Pip when he grows up.

Caly asked me if this summer she and I could go on a shopping spree and spend $100 on toys. She is feeling a bit abandoned by Zaven going to Upward Bound for two months, and she wanted to do something really special. I told her we might, I would have to see how much money we had. Today she told me that if we did it, she wants to buy Zoe a fancy princess tricycle. The trike is about $30. She wants to spend a third of her spree money on her sister. I hope I never forget that.

And Zaven will sit with the baby in his lap and sing and sing. He sings the Beatles and Warren Zevon and Jimmy Buffet. Yesterday he was singing Margaritaville and Caly noticed he'd changed the refrain. "Some people say that there's a sis-ter to blame... but I know, it's all Momma's fault."