"Mommy, Daddy - you've gotta seeee this. There's snow out there! We can build a snow fort and make snow angels and go sledding and have snowball fights! All of us. We'll get on all of our clothes and sweaters. Come on mommy! Come on! Let's DO this. Let's DO this. Let's DO THIS!"
The "let's do this" part was combined with fist pumps.
Has she been watching sporting events that we don't know about? I think we almost got the NFL butt pat when we got out of bed. Also, don't you wish that you had this kind of energy at 6:45am?
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Tonight, Elisabeth decided to play a game called hotel before her bath. She showed us each to our rooms and then brought us "room service." She took our orders and generally tried to attend to all of our needs. Doug told her that before she entered the room, she should say "room service!" So, she'd say "room service," and then bring us fake food.
Eventually she said "room service," at Doug's "room" and went in. And said, "scoot over, room service." She got under his blanket with him. This was the first sign that this is not your ordinary hotel. The second sign that this is not your average hotel is that she soon thereafter began ordering us around. This is, however, indicative of a hotel run by Elisabeth. Her hotel would have no relaxing activities and a constant jabber - maybe ElisabethTV on infinite repeat, a la Mike Saylor on Cruises 98 and 99 on every TV in every room at increasing volumes. There would be no quiet massages or lazing by the pool, those activities would be strictly banned at Hotel Elisabeth. So after cuddling with the hotel guest, she commanded, "Room services, you have to come over here and see the garden light glowing!" It was then that I realized that she thought that meant she should call us "room service".
The third and final sign that this was not an ordinary hotel was when Doug called for room service and said that he needed some company (I noted that this is not what we want to teach our children to call room service for...). The response? She brought us each a pretend monkey to keep us company. Doug's monkey was a loud monkey, though, and would keep him up at night. Room service was wholly unsympathetic.
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Speaking of signs, we have a few more signs of spring that Elisabeth shared with us today. In addition to crocuses, red winged blackbirds, and bugs we have (1) skunk cabbage in the flood plain, (2) bluebirds and (3) goldfinches. I felt a little bit sad telling Elisabeth that numbers two and three stay for the entire winter, but she seemed fine and clung to skunk cabbage as her next contribution to spring's (imminent?) arrival.
And if you don't know what skunk cabbage is, here's a link for your learning pleasure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Skunk_Cabbage
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