Tra La Laaa!!!!

Our family, on both sides, is dispersed.  This set up has its benefits.  For example, we rarely fight about negotiate over which house we will visit for which holiday.  But, there are downsides, too.  When we go on vacation, we must pay the neighbor kid to feed the cat.  And the kids.  Also, we get precious little opportunity to spend time, and develop relationships with, our six nieces and nephews - two in Kentucky, two in Washington, and two (soon to be three!) in Colorado.

Recently, my sister told us that her 7 year old is loving the Captain Underpants series by David Pilkey.  For those of you who do not have 7 year old sons, or who have been raising your 7 year old sons in a cave, Captain Underpants is a comic-book style potty humor-filled series about George and Harold, two 4th grade pranksters who hypnotize their principal into believing that he is a superhero named Captain Underpants, a caped crusader fighting for truth and justice, employing wedgie power, and wielding rubber doggie doo.   Also these books are controversial and occasionally banned by school librarians, for being irreverent and talking about toilets.  And butts.  If you do not enjoy laughing with your young kids, or if you live in Naugatuck, Connecticut, definitely do not read these books with your children.  (but still read them on your own, at night, under the covers, with a flashlight). 

I promised my sister I'd get our (over-read but sadly outgrown!) Captain Underpants books into the mail to Adrian, so that she he could enjoy the rest of the series.  As days flew by, I kept forgetting to look for them.  Then I carried them around in my work bag for a few days, and didn't find the time to get to the post office.  Today, off they go to Kentucky, just in time for April Fools day!  Look out, little sister.  These books have been known to influence kids to behave like pranksters and use bathroom words.  But, Adrian could probably teach Harold and George a thing or two.  I hope the next time Adrian models George and Harold's bad behavior, you think of his Aunt Lori, and say a small prayer of gratitude that I stay so far away.

p.s.  Isabella and Adrian, Professor Poopypants put your names into the name change-o chart, and from here on out, you two will be known as Chim-Chim Picklechunks and Stinky Picklechunks, respectively.