Little Blue Bunny in the New Year

We take Dee to her music lessons these days.  She still wants me to sit in the back with her while Gramps drives.  Good thing, too.  I mean sitting in back...

Dee takes piano lessons at the store that Daddy taught at for years.  This is NOT Dee.

ANYWAY, we have a new technology, Dee, LBB, his family and I.  It is the palm phone.  We can call and message people in our network on the palms of our hands.  We have visual contact, too.  But more exciting than all this, we can reach through the "palmscreen" and touch what we see. We call that Touchtime!

Here is how these communications work.  Dee calls LBB - or vice versa - and they turn on visuals.   Then, Dee says, "What's that on the carpet?" or "What is that big shape behind you?"

Then, I have to make up a story about something on the carpet or what the shape is.

Touchtime was created when I assured Dee that the dragon that looked like it was going to eat Little Blue Bunny was just a cardboard cutout. She punched my palm and - zoop!- she was able to reach into our dining room and touch the dragon's scales. Touchtime!

These conversations take the entire 15 to 20 minute ride to the music store. Yesterday's call was an awesome exercise in imagination and adventure.

Here's Lila and the phone she got for Toy Christmas.  Keep reading.

When we called LBB, we were surprised that the number that came up was his big sister's phone.  Little Blue Bunny explained that Lila lost phone privileges when:
1. She didn't notice that Snow, their little bunny sister, took the new twins, Chester and Pinella, out of their crib.
2.  Snow dragged the twins around the house on a blanket.
3.  Snow knocked down their mother's easel, almost hitting Chester.

So cute! Snow (in the middle) with Chester (left) and Pinella (right).

Needless to say, when Nutsa (Mom) heard the easel crash, she ran in to find Lila on the phone.  The phone was confiscated.

Lila had a problem.  How could she let people know that she lost phone privileges and wasn't just ignoring them?

Enter LBB.  Lila offered LBB money to answer her phone.

AND as soon as LBB got his sister's phone, he diverted all calls from HIS phone to HER phone.

Well, that was quite a story but when we went to visuals we could not believe what we imagined we saw.

This is an earlier experiment with makeup.  We didn't get photos this time.

LBB's face was covered with brown stuff and his ears were rolled up so they looked like little nubs on his head.

"What if one of Lila's friends wants to Facetime?" LBB asked.

"What if?"  I told him.  "You are not supposed to  BE Lila.  You are just letting her friends know she can't use her phone."

"Oh", LBB seemed a bit upset. "I didn't think of that."

"Nana!" Dee pointed at my palm.  "What's that stuff on the table?"

"Well?"  We waited for LBB to explain.

His explanation was in-cred-i-ble.  You see...the makeup he used did not stay on his face.  So he decided to make slime.  Yep. Slime.  He tried a bunch of colors, too.  Pink, orange, green - GREEN? -

"Making slime is so much fun!"  Little Blue Bunny laughed.

We told him to clean himself up.  So he scampered off to the powder room.

At this point, Dee used HER palm phone to call Nutsa and Nutsa - who was busy with the babies - had to come into the kitchen to find that LBB spilled slime EVERYWHERE.  There were tiny slimey footprints on the floor into the dining room - ON THE RUG.  Slime poured down the sides of the counter onto the cabinets.  Dee had a hard time coming up with just the right word.  Not dripping, not pouring, ROARING - like a waterfall.

Nutsa was HORRIFIED. LBB had used up all my brand new clear school glue.

By this time, we reached the music store.

When we called LBB back after Dee's lesson - which went very well, by the way  - that's when we saw the slime cascading over the sides of the counter. (Now, why didn't we think of that word yesterday?) LBB promised that he would buy me more glue.  Nutsa took away the money his sister paid him for answering her phone.

"You are her brother."  Nutsa scolded.  "You should do things like that as a favor.  I am ashamed of you for taking money."

So, here is the breakdown of consequences:
A. Nutsa was NOT upset with Lila or LBB for letting LBB answer Lila's phone.  Nutsa understands that communications are very important to teens and it is only polite to let people know why you are not answering their texts.

B. Nutsa WAS angry that money changed hands.  Family should help family.  Also, if Lila had asked her, Nutsa would have put an automatic reply on Lila's phone.

C. Nutsa WAS FURIOUS with Little Blue Bunny's make-up/slime escapade.  She promised that everything would be spic and span when I got home.

D. Nutsa WAS very angry with Lila fro neglecting her Big Sisterly babysitting duties.  Lila might not get her phone back for awhile.

E. Snow got time out.  But she's just a preschooler and very excited not to be the youngest anymore, so, her Mom went easy on her.

The trip from Dee's house to our house only takes about 10 minutes.  Believe it or not, our house looked just fine when we got home.  AND somehow or other, LBB managed to replace my clear school glue, too.

This post reminds me that I haven't told you all the fun stuff that happened this Fall - stuff like..
1. Nutsa's gender reveal party when we found out she was having TWINS!!!
2.  Our making the twins out of pink, yellow and blue pompoms and scraps of fake fur.  They are so cute.
3. The delivery!
4.  Little Blue Bunny's very close brush with matrimony to a LEOPARD.

It was THAT close.

Fodder for another post or two or three.

PS:  I want to assure you that I do NOT come up with ideas like "gender reveal parties" and "matrimony".  All those ideas come from Dee's amazing imagination.