Cool Kids

The other day on the playground a boy (guessed age 7 or 8) came and sat with me and Aurora and out of the blue started the following most awesomely random conversation:

1. 

Boy: "Do you know what I hate?" 

Me: "No. What do you hate?"

Boy: "When kids are grown together, you know... Siamese twins. I know one pair that´s grown together at the heads, one at the shoulders and a dog too."

Me: "That condition is pretty rare, it´s a big coincidence that you happen to know so many." 

Boy: "Yeah, I saw pictures on the Internet."

Me: "Oh ok, on the Internet, I see."

Boy: "Yeah no, they´re not all my cousins or something like that. Did you think they were all cousins of mine?" 

2. 

Boy: "Do you know how old my great grandma is? 85!"

Me: "That´s pretty old."

Boy: "Yeah she´s not going to make it till 100 though. Maximum to 96."

3.

Boy: "In my school there is a huge gem and my teacher said that if the owner doesn´t show up I can have it. With the money I am going to buy myself a house when I move out. With the money that´s left over I´m going to buy myself some pets and if there´s still money left some food for them as well. I want a turtle and a lizard. I used to want a goat so I don´t have to go buy milk and cheese. "

Me:"You´re going to have to buy an aquarium for the pets to live in." 

Boy: "Can I ask you a question? Is it illegal to have a whole room for your pets?"

"And if the pets start freaking out I´ll just turn on the radio for them." 

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She does love me, trust me. Just some times a little less than other times.

 

Utensils

 This little inconspicuous sieve has proven to be a real genius in the kitchen if you have a baby (I´m sure without the baby it´s very helpful too). You put a little water in the pot, place the sieve in the pot and cut your vegetables into the sieve - that´s it! 

Here is why it´s awesome for when you have a baby:

- for some reason it seems to me the vegetables get cooked a lot faster

- steaming the food is recommended by all the baby-food-guides over cooking them

- there are no worries of burning hot water boiling over, even if you went into the living room to find out why the little stinker has been so suspiciously quite for a while now and then forgot about the stove

- if you cook potatoes too long in water it always turns basically into soup because they flake and whatnot, it just seems so much messier, with the steaming-sieve, the vegetables aren´t over cooked right away and they´ll make it at least onto the plate

- I feel like the food soaks up less water too, so if you want to make crisp potato wedges this thing also helps

Is that enough reasons yet? 

Buy it at Ikea

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Closet

As it´s difficult to pull off red pants for me, Aurora wears them. Again red, white, blue plus stripes... I love it. You can never go wrong with that.

 

Erm...

Super dirty face + diaper on the head = best mix ever

 

Cool Kids

How about these two cool kids?! Eli and his brand new baby brother Ira are the boys of my friend Salo. It´s hard to describe why Eli is so cool, he´s just a really lively funny kid who will randomly scream things at you like: "Hello, we´re friends" or "later gator". Sometimes he´ll start dancing out of the blue, which is probably his south African half coming through. The other half is German and likes to sweep. How awesome does that mix sound? -Exactly. No doubt Ira is going to be just as crazy and sweet as his brother. Salo is such a beautiful, petite, lovely woman - they are going to turn the house upside down, drive her crazy, wear her out and never love any woman as much as their mother.