Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone! On our anniversary, we all went to Church with John (since it was also Father’s day.) Then, we went for our Sunday stable, bagels. I went to get the order. When I came back, John was looking bemused. He said: "Orville is running a roleplaying game. Juss’s character has complete control over anything in the…

The Elf King (Justinian) age 6. Juss: "I have a secret punch and a secret kid Corey doesn’t know about." Mommy: "Oh, really? Where did you get them?" (I wondered if he meant something he learned at Taekwando. Juss: "He doesn’ t know about them unless he’s seen Karate Kid 1 and Karate Kid 2." Mommy: "Which he may have." Juss,…

The Cherubim is a sweet and easy going guy, but he can be stubborn if he doesn’t want to do something. "No." He never raises his voice, but he says it very firmly, and the only thing that will change his mind is to count to five. Once in a while, counting to five doesn’t…

Orville: "…and they are called Silvers. Juss, yelling at the top of his lungs, "Why are their colonies named after Long-John-You-Know?"

Juss on his new show "Spiderman meets Geo Tracks." "He’s a really bad guy! His plans even work sometimes!"

John: "Maybe we should make him a turtle. Turtles are ninja." Juss, emphastically: "No. Turtles aren’t ninja. Turtles and ninja are completely different." When asked to explain, he added with hand gestures: "Ninjas throw things, while turtles go s-l-o-w-l-y." (Imagine the acting out of turtles go slowly.)

Today, I picked up Juss at the bus. As we are walking home he askes, "Mommy, can I ask you something?" "Sure," I say. I stop walking, leaned over and waited, listening.   I listened and listened and listened. He didn’t say anything.  Finally, I said, "Yes?"  To which Juss replied, "I haven’t thought of…

On the subject of Black and White movies and TV: Orville: “I don’t mind black and white. It doesn’t bother me at all.”Juss: “I don’t like black and white.”John: “But what about Gilligan’s Island? The first season was in black and white. You liked that, right?”Juss, sadly, “No, cause they left out the color.”

Juss: “I slide into another room. What kind of monster do I see?” Mommy: “A big blue dragon!” Juss: “I hold up my sword and cry out ‘Knights of the Seven Round-Up!’ This makes lighting come out of my sword! Then I slice him with my magic sword and my belt of strenght, and I use my seven-piece wand!”…

Sunday night, we watched the movie Sky High with the children. Monday morning, Juss came wandering into the kitchen while I was making breakfast, carrying a wooden footstool over his shoulder. Hefting the stool into the air with one arm, he announced: “Look! I have super strength!” Then, yesterday afternoon, I took Orville and the…