1. Ted just told me that tonight, Joe made pretend pancakes. (He knows you need a cup of flour!) He helps Ted make real ones on Sunday mornings, and sometimes Saturday, and sometimes, it will be revealed here for the first time, Julie will get all teary-eyed upstairs nursing Clara listening to Chef Ted and his Sous, Joe, imagining all the years to come when they will be making pancakes, and that maybe, Joe will make pancakes for his own kids one day.
Most mornings, Joe wakes up and asks for brown and Honey Nut Cheerios, but sometimes, he says pancakes, all drawn out so you can tell he knows it's not a pancake day. But you gotta really love a kid who wakes up smiling practically every morning like it is Pancake Day.
2. Toppy top is the phrase of the moment. It is, apparently, KC slang; certainly it is not Raleigh House vernacular. Toppy top was first uttered this weekend when Joe announced, as he climbed to the top of his high chair, that he was going toppy top of the high chair. His ambitions in this regard were quickly squelched. Tonight, several trucks were labelled toppy top. Are there trucks "the tops," if you will? Or does Joe just like saying toppy top? (It is kinda fun to say. Give it a whirl!)
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