through the looking glass

Our new kitten, Colin Crash-Landon Slappity-Joe Pickle McHenry (Pickle for short), is a dangerous combination of curious and clumsy. The other night Sonja had to rescue him, dripping, from a bathtub that hadn't been drained. This morning Evan put down the toilet lid and said, "Sorry, Pickle. Your magic portal has been closed off."

rocket science

Sage: "What are those plastic things on your bottle rocket?"

Evan: "Fins."

Sage: "Oh. Like a shark has!"

Eric: "That's right. And they help the rocket in the same way they help the shark. They stabilize it. Right, Evan?"

Evan: "Right. And they give it character."

can't think of a title for this one

This morning Sage referred to her ponytail as "my princess antenna."

payback time

Evan: "Ethan made up a great name for that team we played last week: the Rust Buckets. And I made up one for the team we played today: the Moldy Sheds."

space cadet

Found on the wall at Topeka Collegiate. Looks like the second graders were asked to color their own space suits. I give you the galaxy's first Astro-SWAT:

BOTP

Evan: "Today while we were playing Bring on the Pain, I accidentally did the splits."

Eric: "You have a recess game called 'Bring on the Pain'?"

Evan: "Yeah. Trinity named it. It's really just dodgeball."

Eric: "Oh."

Evan: "It's not really painful. There aren't any ways to hurt yourself. Unless you accidentally do the splits. And I heard that Ananya wiped out on the blacktop. Actually, there's a variety of ways to hurt yourself playing it."

no ideas but in things

Eric: "Pull your pants up, Evan. You don't want to be mooning people."

Evan: "What's 'mooning'?"

Eric: "Showing your bottom."

Evan: "Oh. Why do they call it 'mooning'? That's so abstract."

The Orange Explorers

Sage was too shy to suggest her preferred name for the team -- the Orange Sparkle Ponies.

reassurance

Sage: "I set up a trap for Evan, so that he won't mess up my stuff. It won't kill him."

tax man

Sage: "Daddy, can you open my box of Nerds for me?"

Eric: "Sure." [Opens box.] "I'm just going to take a few for myself, okay?"

Sage: "Okay. Just a few."

Evan: "I'm glad I can open my own Nerds box, so I don't have to pay the Daddy Tax."

portrait of the artist as a young man

Evan is this month's featured young artist at Warehouse 414. His career retrospective opened tonight as part of the First Friday Art Walk.