David vs. Gregor

Resident art historian Giancarlo is lecturing some of the boys on Daddy Steve's newest garden acquisition...

Giancarlo: Can anyone tell me the name of the famous Italian sculptor

who created this wonderful statue of David?

Chance Victor: Ooh!  I know!  It was Mike Malangelo.

Diego Luis: ¡Bien hecho, papi!  Good job!

Kirwan Mahoney: Must have been a cold day in the studio.

Giancarlo: >Ahem<  

The artist's name was Michelangelo, an Italian of high renown during the Renaissance.

David is a symbol of youthful strength and beauty, and of the civil liberties

as embodied in the constitution of Florence.

Kirwan: He is aware that the symbol is wearing only his birthday suit, isn't he?

Giancarlo: >Ahem!<  

David was carved out of a single, massive block of marble.

When asked how he did it, Michelangelo is supposed to have said he simply 

carved out where David wasn't.

Diego: Un muchacho muy macho.

Kirwan: Un muchacho muy nude-o.

Giancarlo: >AHEM!!<

Later...

Giancarlo: I am surprised you did not join us, amico.

You like the history and art.

Nicholas Sahara: My dear Giancarlo, I've seen it before.

Giancarlo: Seen it...?  How?!? Papa Stefano just acquired it!

Nicholas: Oh, my parents have one.  In the courtyard of our palace back home.

Giancarlo: His parents have one?  

Mamma mia...I need una limonata...

Reeding Comprehension

 

Meghan: This wobbly table is driving me crazy!

Meghan: One of the legs must be short.

Holly Belle: Or perhaps there's a dip in the floor.  This can be a strange old house sometimes.

Come on, let's go find something to shim it up.

Holly Belle: This is the neatest workshop I've ever seen!

There's not one scrap of wood to be found.

Meghan: Uli was in here cleaning all day yesterday.

Holly Belle: Noah Conrad actually let her in here?!?

Meghan: Would you argue with Uli when she's got a mission?

Holly Belle: Fair point.  

Well, I know one place even she won't go in to clean.

Meghan: Shouldn't we ask the boys before we go in their room?

They always say it's a 'girl free' zone.

Holly Belle: Hmmphf.  I'll remind them of that the next time they're shrieking

about a spider that they want disposed of.

Holly Belle: They keep all kinds of bits and bob in this drawer.

Gosh, don't they ever fold their clothes??

Meghan: Frank was telling me the other day that clothes don't want to be folded

and we have to respect that.

Holly Belle: >Sigh<  What a weirdo.

Holly Belle: A-ha!  This will do the trick!

Meghan: That looks like it might actually be something.

Holly Belle: Nah, just some dumb little scrap of wood.

Goodness knows why they decided to save it.

Later...

John Martin: What are you looking for?

Gavin: The reed on my clarinet cracked, and I was sure I had an extra one in here,

but I just can't find it anywhere.  How can things just disappear?

John Martin: This can be a strange old house sometimes.

Fall-ing for Autumn

 

Benjamin Roy: What's the cutest season?

Pete Dakota: Awwww-tumn!

BR: How does a gourd pay for stuff?

Pete Dakota: With pumpkin bread!

BR: Halloween is coming...

Pete Dakota: ...so don't let your gourd down!

BR: Don't like fall?

Pete Dakota: Then make like a tree and leaf!

BR: You're simply a-peeling!

Pete Dakota: And you're the apple of my pie.

BR & Pete Dakota:  Tha-tha-tha-tha-that's FALL, folks!