Day +837: Cute phone conversations with the kids

I had a great telephone conversation with the kids the other night. Keri called down from Teri's house in the evening when she was about to put the kids into the bath. They had had a full day -- they'd gone to see Kari and Steve in the afternoon and had been busy busy at Teri's. Isaac didn't want to get on the phone at first. I heard him say something like "Daddy who?" in the background when Keri asked him if I wanted to talk to him. So Mina got on the phone first. She told me that she and Lily were getting ready to go to a party, and she told me all about it, in great detail. Seems the party was going to be at her friend Dora's house. Dora has a pool, so it was going to be a pool party and they were going to swim. She and Lily were going to put on dresses, and they had matching clothes. Mina was going to wear a purple dress, and Lily had matching purple underwear. Dora had very special towels for them when they got out of the pool, with flowers and sparkles on them. Then Dora had dresses that Mina and Lily were going to put on. They were about to take a bath because they were getting ready to go to the party, and they had salt water on them and salt water makes you itch. She really went on and on, with lots of detail about the pattern of the towels and what the dresses looked like. I was amazed at all the details she had worked out so firmly in her mind.

I thought I wasn't going to get to talk to Isaac, but he finally came on the phone and started telling me about the cat. He was looking out the window of Auntie Teri's house, and he saw the cat in the back yard. It was about to go under some bushes. It was looking for sharks. But the sharks were going to eat us up. There was some water under the bushes and that's where the sharks were. But they were not the kind of sharks that like to eat you up. They were nice sharks. He kept pushing a button on the phone and saying "Hello?" Then he would tell me the story about the cat and the sharks all over again. One time he told me he saw the horse, and there was a bear in the back yard too. But again, the bear wasn't going to eat us up. He probably really did see the cat and horse, but I doubt very much he saw a real bear. After not wanting to get on the phone at all at first, I ended up talking to Isaac for about a half hour. He just sort of got in the groove of talking me, and then he was telling me all kinds of stuff.

Very cute phone conversations that I just had to note down for posterity. It's fun that the kids are getting to the age where they can carry on a phone conversation now. It's nice to be able to connect that way, especially since it'll be a couple more weeks before I see them.