sound bites

here are a few rory stories that can tide you over until you get some pictures to view:

one night rory keeps calling us up to her room for one thing or another when she's supposed to be going to sleep. so one of the million times i go up there, she's got something in her mouth. it looks like something plastic-y that should definitely not be in her mouth when she's going to sleep.
"what have you got in your mouth? please spit it out." i hold my hand out
she spits the thing into my hand and says, "it's a booger"

another day, rory is beating her tamborine and chanting "robot, robot, robot..." in time to the rhthym of the tamborine.
i say, "is that the robot song?"
she says, "it's kind of literal, but people like it like that"

the other night, we're getting dinner ready and rory says, "we need ambiance." what? did she just say what i think she said? i make her repeat it half a dozen times to make sure. then i ask her what it is and she says "it's when you play soft music, and you turn the lights down and light candles." i ask her who taught her that and she said one of her teachers did. so i ask the teachers next tikme i see her. she says she taught the kids the word the other day when they were all roudy at lunch time and it helped to calm them down. she also wondered who would be the first to use the word with their parents. can you guess who it was?