I lost count of how many times June changed her shoes today.

7:10 am: purple butterfly shirt, flowery skort, pink socks
7:15 am: purple butterfly shirt, flowery skort, turquoise striped legwarmers because she's cold, pink socks
9:45 am: purple butterfly shirt, flowery skort, brown butterfly fleece pants underneath skort, pink socks, red converses
9:50: removes flowery skort because it's bunched up under fleece pants
later that morning: takes off underwear and puts on the bottoms of her swimsuit instead
11 am: whips off socks and sneakers to try on new purple sandals bought at the store
11:10 am: puts socks back on for that unique european look of socks and sandals
11:15 am: takes off socks again. Clomp around in her rain boots just because.
12:50 pm: puts on red converses to ride her bike
12:55 pm: too hot to ride. puts on sandals again
1:30 pm: replaces brown butterfly fleece pants with pink fleece pants instead.
1:35 pm: takes off sandals and puts on white sparkly shoes
1:35 pm: -- 2:30 pm: 55 minutes of the same clothes!
2:35 pm: gives the euro look another try with white socks and purple sandals
2:36 pm: still hates it. flings the sandals and practices somersaults on the grass in her white socks
3 pm: takes off pink fleece pants, bathing suit bottom and walks around half naked for the next 15 minutes.
3:20 pm: puts on her nike sweatpants. comfy!

at last look, she was still wearing the sweatpants, her white sparkly shoes (now happily dirty for a hard day of play) and amazingly, the purple butterfly shirt that stayed on ALL DAY.

Chookie Monster

Somewhere along the line, maybe five or six months ago, June started calling Kean "Chookabunder." The adults in the house have no idea why, but so it is. Lately, because she's in such a hurry to getherwordsoutfast, she abbreviates it to Chookie or Chooks. Which should come as no surprise coming from a girl who says hung for hungry and gram for graham cracker. When she says Chooks, she sorta sounds like Peppermint Patty calling for Chuck. Yep, she's Peppermint Patty, Kean is Charlie Brown, Pepper is Snoopy and Masala Papa and I sound like wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

Kean doesn't speak English.

He speaks Keanlish. Some recent entries:

Tar = star
Do-dive = screwdriver
Dune = June
NOOOOOO = snow
Baboon = balloon
Muh-MAID = mermaid. An explanation: June got a mermaid Barbie for Christmas and Kean has a crush on her. Every time he sees a picture of a Barbie or Disney princess, he calls her mermaid. He's also very into fish. June says he's going to marry a mermaid. Look carefully at the picture: That's a fishing rod and a plastic fish in his hands.