St. Patrick's Day

The Astronaut Monkeys and the Sweet Alien

So, ok, ok, ok, so the astronaut monkeys and the little alien meet each other and then it got dark, and then those flying monsters wanted to shoot sticks out of their whiskers and then they ran and then they danced with that guy. They were walking for a trip and the alien said “Don’t eat those.” “Those are lemon drops? Why, you’re kidding, these are yummy.” And they said “No don’t eat them. They’re not gummies.” And they turned into a guy and then they danced and then that man turned into a ball and rolled and rolled and rolled and then they fell down and then they were swinging on vines. They flew all the way to that rocket ship, those monkeys did and then they were on a planet and those guys that shoot those things out of their whiskers they taked that monkey away and then they were trying to get the other monkeys that were little and then they swinged on vines but they had little guys that started to bite and then they fell down and there were little guys that came out of holes and there were flowers and they said: “Are they flowers, are they?” And then they touched them and they weren’t flowers and they were monsters that tried to bite and they bited the guys that flew and then they met a alien and it got dark and they were walking for a trip and the pokey guys the pokey monsters had whiskers and they shoot sticks out of their whiskers and then they danced and then they went into a cave and they found a monster and then that monster ate the alien up and the monkeys found a way out. The End.

Can I watch a movie of it?

Me: Honey, do you have a little bit of a cold?
Oliver (with snot dripping out of his nose): No, I just have a little bit of a bless you.

Later in the day...

Oliver: I think I have a little cold.

He said it...

Oliver: When papa comes I'm going to show him all my toys.
Me: Papa will probably want to take you shopping for more toys.
Oliver: I don't need any more toys.

Clemson, Asheville and Black Mountain

Here's Oliver running through one of the nature-based sculptures at the Clemson Botanical Gardens.


At the Hotel Indigo in Asheville.



In front of Lee Hall, where Black Mountain College was originally located (now the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly).





Here's Oliver in front of a building designed by Mies van der Rohe on Black Mountain College's Lake Eden campus. It's now Camp Rockmont for boys.



Oliver's "super sweet" face


Oliver's Burt from Mary Poppins face (as in "My father gave my nose a twitch and told me I was bad...")

Toddler Love Fest

Oliver, Isolde and Corwin

The Rules

Oliver: "Here's the rules. No naps and no time outs. I'm never gonna go to sleep again. [And then when I start to say you do not make the rules he says...] No talking. I said no talking."

"Venom's Nightmare"

It's coming with the evening.
You put a knife in a scary statue.
Cuz he was making sounds.

It's coming with the evening.
I could scare you!
I could get you Spiderman!
I could poke you!

It's coming with the evening.
And it's pooping in your pants.
It's pooping in your pants,
because it's yucky.

I am the monster of the pooping.
Monsters are pooping.
Ewwwwwwwwwwww!