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What have we been up to in 2013 thus far?

Bright Lights...

His Lighthouse...

FLL...

Lyceum...

Church...

(In choir rehearsal, as Mom is accompanying... Papa is directing; the choir is waiting for his signal to come in. He's telling a stupid joke.)
Mom: (playing last measure over and over) How long are you going to beat??
Papa: I don't know; I'm telling something stupid!

Leify sleeping through the Wednesday night Lenten service

Time with friends...

Jael: You are such a literalist! You've been around Sylvia too long.
Sophi: ...we love you, Sylvia!
Kira: Jael loves you, too!
Abi: Can you tell? 

Fun at home...

Sewing...

Reading...

Music...

Interesting dinner conversations...

Mom: You HAD a brain.
Papa: What, you mean I don't anymore?
Mom: No; now you have two brains: your internal brain and your external brain.
Cecily: What, his moustache?
Mom: No, his iPhone.

School...

Sylvia: Thor, please use your brains. I know you have them and they're very good.
Thor: Actually, I only have one, and I left it up in my room. And it's very small.
Knut: I left mine at the last FLL competition.
(I found out several days later that they were talking about little toy rubber brains.)

Gloria: Where's my pencil?
Mom: We need to weld it to a chain around your neck so you don't lose it.
Sylvia: Good idea... except that if you try to weld a pencil, it will die.

Mom: Knut, do you want to participate in the 8th grade graduation?
Knut: ...I thought I was in 7th grade.

Knut: Haven't you ever heard the story of how the Penguins launched Penguin Books? 

Mom: When YOU have to write your essay about how life experience is helpful, you can write about...
Knut: TOAST!!!
Mom: ...whatever. *sighs*

Mom: Okay; as long as what you're doing is brainless.

Mom: Wow... um... I'm glad I asked this question!
Knut: I'm brilliant.
Mom: No, that was totally wrong!
Knut: Glad you liked my joke! Now do you wanna hear the real answer?

Knut: The first full-length American movie was Birth of a Toaster. (It was "Birth of a Nation")

Mom: Don't leave yet! You still need to listen to this book.
Knut: Mom, since I can multitask... *picks up comic book*
Mom: NOT Calvin and Hobbes. 

Knut: Nooo!!! Think, think, think, think, think, Vern!
Sylvia: *starts laughing*
Knut: WHAT!?
Sylvia: Other than the fact that you're telling VERN to think when YOU'RE taking a French test?
Knut: But he can tell me the answer!
Sylvia: That would be cheating.
Mom: At least when homeschoolers cheat it's only because their imaginary friend helps them!
Knut: But Vern's not imaginary.
Sylvia: That's for sure!

Sylvia: Stop sitting around doing nothing! Or... I'll start asking you random questions.
Cecily: *jumps up and runs away* 

Planning...

Knut: We'll head out from here...
Sylvia: Well, where else would we head out from?
Knut: Mars. Anyway, then we'll...

Disc golf...

Randomness...

Cecily: There's a loose baby lying around! 

Thor: C'mon, Knut; what are you doing?
Knut: I'm taking over the world; just give me a second!
Thor: Hurry up!

Cecily: I'm broke. No, wait, I'm not broke! I found 75 cents!
Mom: Where'd you find it? In my purse?