They've become quite the fans.

As I've previously mentioned David and I are watching Star Trek: The Original Series. But what I didn't say is that shortly after we grownups began watching the show Paige and Emma became interested in it as well. At first Paige didn't understand that Spock's name wasn't "Spark" as she thought. And both girls ask a lot of questions which highlight how little they actually understand of what is going on. "What is Spock's last name?" "Well, what's his first name?" "What is Kirk's name?" "Where are they?" You get the picture.

But despite those drawbacks we've all enjoyed watching the show as a family. The girls like it so much that Saturday morning P&E decided they were going to play "Star Trek". Paige was Spock and Emma was Kirk. Paige had me put blue eye shadow on her lids, both girls wore the correct colored shirts, and they made phasers out of pipe cleaners. They also added their own shirt emblems. I thought they did a great job.

Here are their "models":

And now for the girls' representations:

I told them to make serious faces. ☺ Emma had an actual Star Trek pin on her shirt (it belonged to David in his youth), but Paige had to get creative with hers. A Pontiac emblem substitutes nicely, don't you think?

Goosey Loosey

This evening after we finished eating supper Paige and Emma went outside to play with their friends. After a minute Emma came back in, started to open the closet door and pull out a jacket while declaring that she had "chicken pox".
"What!?" I said.
"I have the chicken pox." Emma responded.
I asked incredulously, "How can you have chicken pox!? If you had chicken pox your body would be covered in red, itchy bumps!"
"Well, I don't know what they're called!" Emma said.
I then replied, "I have no idea what you're talking about." I was busy cleaning the kitchen at this time so I was a bit distracted.
Emma then told me, "I'm cold, and I need a jacket, and I have...something about a chicken..."
As I was loading the dishwasher I thought on that for a few seconds, and then I burst out laughing. "You mean you have the goose bumps?"
"Yeah!!" Emma said.
Case closed. ☺