Quotation Mark Mondays: Bathroom humor

"I made a poo that looks like a banana!"


Mark: "I don't have any tinkle. You'll have to buy me some tinkle."
Matt: "Mark, nobody sells tinkle."
Mark: "Yes, you can buy tinkle. You go to a store that only sells tinkle and you buy some."

(We're working on potty training so there's a lot of this talk in our house.)

Mark of Fridays: baseball cards

"Dad, can I hold your 1909 T206 Honus Wagner?"
"Um, why don't you hold this Mark Prior card instead..."

Quotation Mark Mondays: Jokester

Impress your friends! Tell jokes like Mark Hanley.

Mark: Knock. Who's there? Olive.
Matt: Olive who?
Mark: Olives are a food.

Mark: Knock. Who's there? Pink and gray.
Matt: Pink and gray who?
Mark: Ears

Mark of Fridays: The funnies

Get up Saturday morning, put on a weird hat and read the comics. Typical day in the Hanley house.

Quotation Mark Mondays: beds

"After we get home, I'm going to tell my bed I went to the library. And the bed is going to say: Hop into bed!"

Mark of Fridays: Sesame Street Live

Mark, Elmo'd up pre-show.

On a whim last weekend, Lynne and Matt decided to go see Sesame Street Live in Rosemont. Matt was a bit skeptical at first - mainly because he thought it was Elmo on Ice. Not so.

It actually was just about the greatest thing ever if you are between the ages of 2 and 5.
The show was pretty good. It was a standard Sesame Street plot with Super Grover losing his super powers and the other characters showing him how to get them back. (Get sleep, eat right, keep yourself clean, exercise - if you must know.) Not exactly Dickensian fare for the parents, but it was magical to hear the kids cheer when a new character walked out of the TV and onto the stage in front of them.

And look who else was there!

But before the show might have been even better. If you got there an hour early, you could stand in Oscar's garbage can, sit in Big Bird's nest, go to Hooper's Store and more. Basically this was awesome for the parents because everyone thought about how they would have loved to do this when they were kids and they would have treasured this moment. And so the parents made the kids stand for dozens of pictures when all the kids wanted to do was play around already!

But there was also a pre-show where several of the characters (including the infamous Murray) came out to do short songs like Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. The characters were really close to the kids and COOKIE MONSTER AND ZOE GAVE MARK A HIGH FIVE.

Mark looked he was going to throw up from excitement. Afterwards, he just jumped up and down in place because he couldn't believe he'd met his heroes. And this time he wasn't lumpy.

Anyhow, for those of you that have kids, we give it two big red fuzzy thumbs up.

Who are you calling a grouch?

Picking vegetables at Hooper's store.

More chalk talk

A quick follow up to last week's chalk talk. Today, Mark and Matt were outside doing more drawing. When it was time to go in, Mark's right hand was covered in chalk. Mark looked at his green hand and said: "I have chalk mittens!"

Quotation Mark Mondays: Favorite dino

More little-known facts, as explained by Mark.
"The favorite dinosaur of Oscar (the Grouch) is the stegosaurus because he has a very long and spikey tail."

You could look it up, folks.

Mark of Fridays: Chalk talk

Art on the sidewalk...

...leads to art on the pants!