Watson and Milo said...

Milo:"When I am in heaven, I will have an iPod touch, a macbook air, and a desktop computer."

Watson:"When will you be in heaven?"

Milo:"I will probably be in heaven 3 years before you."

Watson:"Will you wait for me in heaven?"

Milo:"Yeah, I'll wait for you in heaven. I definitely won't come back to earth as a ghost and haunt people or anything."

Milo's Jumanji

OK, so Milo is now in second grade but his writing skills are amazing and his phantasy is going wild, leaning towards the macabre. Read this essay from school:

Jumanji -the second -

by Milo Shea Gerhard

Daniel and Walter had stolen Jumanji and were very happy. "We'll never finish so they can't have it back!" They started playing. "Instructions?" "No. Instructions are boring," said Walter. He rolled a 3. A 3and a 3! Snake attack move back one space.

"Hey, what's happening with the writing?" "I don't know b-b-but l-l-look!"

Daniel said in a terrified voice. Walter turned around and screamed.

The moment he turned around he'd seen a 49 foot reticulated python!

Daniel rolled a six. Constricted and eaten by python!

Judy saw them playing and came over to watch. Daniel immediately went inside leaving Judy in his place.

The python slowly wound itself around Judy. Judy knew what was happening so she told him the instructions. "... And then shout Jumanj-" she stopped because at that very moment the python slid its mouth over Judy's head. It slowly swallowed her. A hal;f minute later she was completely gone.

Daniel came back. Walter rolled a 2. Lion attach, watch out!

"Uh-oh! Look!" said Daniel. They were encircled by lions! They started running but the lions were right behind them!

Walter had to slow down. "You can't give up!" shouted Daniel. He started to run but a lion bit him!

They got back to the park and the lions were lost. Daniel rolled a 12.

Hit hit Jumanji! "Jumanji" he yelled. He had to say Jumanji! He said, "Jumanji!"

Judy apeared, the lion and the snake disappeared. They threw Jumanji into the fire.

It was Daniel's b-day. He got a thin box from his dad. He said, "I found this outside in a pile of ash," Daniel opened it. It was... Jumanji!

Watson said...

This is from Melissa:

Watson :"What if we don't want to eat it?"

Milo: "Then we'll give it to mommy, she'll eat it."

Watson: "What if she doesn't want to eat it?"

Milo: "Then we'll give it to papi, he will eat anything."

Watson: "That's not true. He won't eat poop with toilet water on it!"

Watson said...

At Greenlake Bar and Grill. Melissa told the kids that soda was complementary with the kids' meal.
Watson to the waiter:"I want a free soda at no cost."

Watson said...

We were talking about birthdays.

Watson: "And for my birthday, we are going to *kill Papi*."

Me: "Aber dann bin ich ja tot."

Watson: "Well no, we are not going to kill him, we're just going to shoot him with a bee bee gun."

He was all cheerful and thought this was really nice and a good idea!

Watson said...

Watson: "Ja, papa, aber war der ein Gutewicht in dem Film?"

Winter for Real!

So it looks like we got hit by a real storm and stuff. It's an inverted weather pattern they say. What that means is that -20F temperatures were blown from the north east into the Puget Sound area. It never gets this cold usually, but it did this year.

So what can one do in this kind of weather except take some time off, relax, enjoy the snow, sled, and drink some Gluehwein? Well not much else, but it's not like that's a short list of things to do anyway.
Check out the pics below, you're bound not to have seen anything like this. Well maybe Rico there in Munich, but defintely not Pueppi hanging out in Miami Beach galavanting with Johannes in 80 degree weather.





The first bout of snow was not so intense. Just a few flurries really but that's a lot for Seattle.







On our way back from sledding, though there wasn't much snow.







Two days later the bis snow hit.







Look at the house! totally snowed in. The heater is humming away and given our single pane windows from 1928, no insulation and giant living space, I am not looking forward to the bill.







There is also a neighborhood church! Granted not easy to tell from these pictures but throughout the whole neighborhood strolling exercise - by the way Watson was walking so slowly through the snow, stopping at every step to pick up snow and throw it at me, but I digress - I had a distinct feeling of being in a Bavarian village.









Everyone at the sledding hill.







Once again our place all snowed in.




And finally I strapped on the snowboard to go down a side street. Unfortunately I didn't get enough speed for a 360 -



Cool!