Sometime earlier this year I installed this awesome program on my phone that lets me take notes anywhere I happen to be. And then it automatically syncs up with the same program on my computer, and I can use that to remind me of all the things I wrote down and remember to do them.
The only problem with this wonderful piece of software is the user. The notes go in, but they never come back out again. Its almost as if I use it specifically as an excuse to forget things. Ironic, since the icon is an elephant.
Anyway, I thought about it a week or two... or maybe a month ago - I remembered taking a couple random notes about stuff the kids were doing and saying. And then I promptly forgot about them because they were stored off in my little glowing elephant rectangle. I went and looked at it today. There's a lot of notes in there. Without further ado, I'll kick it off with "Rainbow Freeze", a note from July 21st.
We were at a restaurant where the kids receive a post-meal popsicle, and Penelope chose a Blue Bell Rainbow Freeze pop. If you are unfamiliar with them, they are a rainbow-colored multi-flavored popsicle, with purple, green, yellow, orange, and red sections. She was working her way down and had just started on the yellow section.
I asked her, "Penelope, do all the different colors taste different, or are they the same?"
She said "They are different." and continued eating.
I was curious, "What flavors are they?"
"Well," she replied, "The purple is grape. The green is olive. Yellow is lemon... and I don't know what orange or red is yet."
A few minutes later, after making her way past the yellow section, she stopped and exclaimed, "Oh! the orange is orange!"
I don't think we ever got the report on what red happened to be, but I did get a picture.
