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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 5, 2012 21:16:10 GMT -5
Mrs. Pike wouldn't have to "figure out" seven lunches if she made seven of the same and said "eat it or be hungry".
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 5, 2012 22:37:37 GMT -5
I like the Pike kids but do get tired of Claire's "silly billy goo goo's" and how often the triplets are lumped together. Maybe making lunches would be a good idea for each kid so that they could learn more independence from Mal!
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Post by sarish on Nov 5, 2012 23:09:51 GMT -5
Mrs. Pike wouldn't have to "figure out" seven lunches if she made seven of the same and said "eat it or be hungry". Or just have them make their own lunches - it's not as if the Pike parents are picky of what their kids eat. I'd say they are all old enough to make it, she might just need to help Margo a little.
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Post by candykane on Nov 11, 2012 14:37:48 GMT -5
I remember when Mallory came home from school in one book and said all her siblings were in the kitchen fixing "sloppy, digusting after-school snacks." One of the triplets was squirting mustard on bologna slices, rolling them up, and eating them, all while mustard slopped out the ends. Yum. I shudder to think what those kids' lunches would look like if they packed their own!
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Post by starrynight on Nov 18, 2012 13:03:35 GMT -5
^ I'm guessing there wouldn't be a lot of fruit and vegetables involved....
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Post by maddieruns on Dec 19, 2012 23:59:54 GMT -5
Eww, do the Pikes ever eat fruits and vegetables regularly?
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 20, 2012 0:31:47 GMT -5
^ I'm assuming that veggies and fruits would be served with meals (i.e. dinner) but the amount that each Pike kid would intake would remain uncertain. With 7 kids in total, I doubt Mr. and Mrs. Pike could effectively monitor exactly how much each kid ate.
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Post by ashley868 on Dec 29, 2013 23:21:23 GMT -5
I like the Pikes and I've always found them fun to read. I love reading about big families. When I was younger, I used to write stories with huge families. I just always found it really unrealistic that they are all just a year apart from each other. Mrs Pike would have to get pregnant so soon after each child, and the body does need time to heal. I know a woman who kept having kids, and she ended up losing her fourth kid because he didn't develop properly because she got pregnant so soon after the third. Mrs. Pike had Mallory, and then triplets! I'd find the Pikes to be more realistic if they had more of an age difference to them. I know a lot of the stuff in the books isn't realistic at all, but that's just something that always annoyed me even as a kid.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Dec 29, 2013 23:57:47 GMT -5
^ Since Mallory was considered sturdy, maybe Mrs. Pike was too? To partially explain why she holds up well in between those prenancies?
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Post by mallorypike on Dec 30, 2013 17:21:29 GMT -5
I've always liked the Pike girls especially Claire! She is just so adorable! I never found her "silly-billy-goo-goo" catchphrase to be annoying. Or that she calls Mrs. and Mr. Pike "Moozie" and "Dazzles". Hmm...now that I think about it, does Claire ever call her parents that other than the trips to Sea City? I liked Margo because, even though her main "personality" is that she barfs, she really seems to look after her little sister And it was absolutely adorable when she peeled a banana with her feet and recited "The House that Jack Built" at the same time I wish her character would be more developed, though. My LEAST favorite Pike kids are the triplets and Nicky. Adam, Byron, and Jordan are nothing but complete brats. Plus, Byron doesn't really seem "sensitive". It's awesome that they try to give him a different personality but why not something else? If Byron really was sensitive, he wouldn't pick on Nicky so much and he would hang out with him. Nicky seems WAY too whiny. I feel bad for him because he seems like "the black sheep" of the family but still...how come he refuses to hang out with the girls? I know he's going through an "ewww girls!" phase but why not try to hang out with the girls? Hmm? I would have posted about Mallory but she isn't really a Pike KID. In Stoneybrook, eleven year olds are young adults, not kids. A very important lesson to learn... You know, I imagined the Pike kids more different than they described them in the books. In my brain, the triplets has short, straight, dirty blonde hair and blue eyes; Vanessa has chestnut brown, curly (but not bushy like Mallory's) hair and brown eyes; Nicky has short, straight, dirty blonde hair and blues eyes; Margo has straight, brown hair and brown eyes; and Claire has wavy, light blonde hair with blue eyes. I can't imagine Nicky with glasses, though. I can only imagine Vanessa with reading glasses. I can't imagine her wearing glasses all the time like Mallory.
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Post by Amalia on Dec 30, 2013 17:36:52 GMT -5
^ Yeah but why would brothers and sisters have different colored eyes?
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 30, 2013 17:49:52 GMT -5
^Because they can? I've got blue eyes and have a sibling with brown eyes.
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Post by Amalia on Dec 30, 2013 18:07:59 GMT -5
^ Oh.
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 30, 2013 19:02:21 GMT -5
Moozie and Daggles cracks me up. I wonder if that's something Ann said or heard in real life...
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 30, 2013 19:23:22 GMT -5
^ I wonder where Claire got it from! I remember in Karen's Softball Mystery, when Karen and Andrew are supposed to be finding toys to donate for a Krushers fund-raiser, Andrew finds a cow puppet called Minnie Moo. He is willing to part with it despite Karen's objections because she had both given it to him and wanted to keep everything but because as Andrew said, the cow's "moo-er" broke. I'm guessing it was a squeaky puppet sort of like a rubber ducky and eventually the squeak mechanism wore out. Back on more topic to the Pikes, they were always one of my favorite families. I love reading about their Thanksgiving celebration in "Get Well Soon, Mallory," and despite the craziness of "Mallory's Christmas Wish," I thought their Secret Santa in that and mentioned in Christmass Chiller was so sweet and reminded me that at heart, they probably were (I like to think) a close and loving family. Claire's silly billy goo, I admit does get old to me and I do think that constant phrase would have been more believable had Claire been 3 but she is an endearing character anyway. I agree that Nicky could be whiny at times, I wish his friendship with David Michael had been explored. It sounded like the two of them along with Adam, Byron, and Jordan had a great time exploring and being pirates in SS1, surely they could have gotten together once in Stoneybrook. As for the infamous Pike triplets, I definitely did not care for how they, particularly early on treated Nicky or how their parents didn't seem to care but they did have sweet moments, too. We might have gotten to know them much better had the writers not lumped them all together as "the triplets." Margo, I honestly don't have a strong opinion on. Vanessa, her poems do make me smile and I would have loved more of a friendship between her and Mal. That brings me to Mal, who is one of my very favorite of the sitters.
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