Main Goal: Embarrass Twelve-O-Matic

I kept trying to get her to call me, "Dad."

She out and out refused!

In O-Matic News ...

In Twelve-O-Matic News: We are conducting an experiment on Twelve-O-Matic. We are not going to give her any instructions regarding her room, for an undetermined period of time. We are going to see where it goes. Right now we can only see about 30% of the carpet. Despite the laundry room being less than 10 feet away from her room, the laundry is amassing. This is DAY ONE of the experiment.

In Five-O-Matic News: A tooth has been loosened. We are awaiting spontaneous dental ejection. Every single person (no exaggeration) who has encountered her since the tooth became loose has asked if he/she can yank it out for her. The answer has been an unequivocal, NO.

Unfortunately ...

... I just had to revoke one of our contributor's publishing rights on this site. She was plagiarizing at least once that I know of, but at this point, I do not trust that anything posted was original.

I'm very disappointed and it makes me feel like not trusting anyone.

I'll get over it, but right now I'm really grumpy about it.

Not COOL! Not cool at all!

-Jodie

Five-O-Matic's Song

An original song, as transcribed by Twelve-O-Matic via Five-O-Matic's dictation:

The Night Up Above by Five-O-Matic

To the prairies
when the ocean waves
to the sky
with the jokings of my ears
when the sun sets inside her
and then the moon comes up
with the shine in it
the owl comes out
with the moon

then the prairies come to life
with the princesses in their castles.
Then the prince dances with the princess.

THEEEEE ENNNNND.

Diary of Jane

Hello there. Today as we drove home from a looooong day of work and school, the song, "The Diary of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin came on the radio:



After much contemplation, my five-year-old said, "Why are they singing about diarrhea?

Twelve-O-Matic's Painting

Her painting has sprouted wings. The wings came from a little butterfly decoration we had in Five-O-Matic's room. Edgar got a hold of it, ate the styrofoam body (so I'll be cleaning up puke within the next 24 hours fer sher) and left the wings. Her lucky number is 13, so that's why she has the Roman Numeral 13 flanked by regular 13s.

La la la.

Five-O-Matic's Painting

The best part of this painting is how she decided that the paintbrush must become part of the painting. I love it. She used acrylic and nail polish. She likes the experimental mediums.