Another Couple of Gems from Ridge and Holt

Friday night has become “Pizza and Movie” night at our house. We’ve got the routine down pat, now. Aaron makes bread dough using a focaccia recipe. We use both the microwave/oven and the stovetop oven Mom sent us to bake small pizzas. The boys usually spend the afternoon making their movie requests to Aaron. “Singing in the Rain” is a very popular choice. Holt refers to it as, “That movie where that lady who is Cathy throws that cake at that lady.” If you are familiar with the movie, you’ll know what he’s talking about. Ridge even knows which of our movies have Gene Kelley in them. Holt’s other favorite is “Mary Potter”. He keeps fusing the titles of “Mary Poppins” and “Harry Potter” (which they have never seen and won’t see until they are much older).

Some of our movies we have found at Homac for only 500 yen each (less than $5). They are not fancy, but they have an English option. That’s how we acquired most of the older movies, like “Singing in the Rain”. A few others were Christmas presents. One of these is “The Sound of Music,” which we finally had the chance to watch last Friday night. According to Ridge, it has “nunjins” in it. I still don’t know how he managed to mangle “nuns” and turn it into “nunjin”. Maybe he was thinking of “nunjas,” which is what he calls ninjas. To confuse matters worse, the word for carrot is “ninjin” (Ridge taught me that one).

Holt was not without his own priceless comment. As we were watching the movie, Holt turned around to ask me, out of the blue, “Mommy, do you have a penis?” After I said, “no,” he demanded to know, “why not?!” He seems to be struggling with this concept. Perhaps I should tell him I just plain forgot to order one.