June 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
1) Thomas Wolf (Look Homeward Angel) and Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities) are different authors.
2) A cheetah cannot retract its claws.
3) A 13 month old will rock out during the final Jeopardy song.
Archive for June, 2005
June 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
We had a great time at the lake this weekend. As promised, I have some pictures to help you understand what it is like.
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Jeff brought the horse head for the threeman hat, but it was too hard to drink through. We did a good job finding other uses for it.
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Yes, that is Jeff and Mike on the skibob, and Jeff wore the horse head for the whole ride. Did I mention you can’t really see out of the horsehead?
I wish I had taken a picture of it, but somehow Manny and his wife slept on hammocks about ten feet to the right of where this picture was taken the whole time we were playing drinking games. I have no idea how they could have slept through all the yelling, especially when we played “Calling Alll Vegetables” a game where you lose if you show your teeth (try yelling okra to atichoke without your teeth showing, and you will get a better idea).
So, besides the fact that I missed my daughter walking for the first time, and having several new bruises from falling down in the boat – twice – I feel like the trip was a huge success. I think everyone had a good time, except maybe the people that Paul scared two houses down, by swimming out from under the dock with the horse head on.
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Claudia walked on Friday. The day after we left for the lake.
Last night she took a few small steps, but all four of her grandparents saw her take about 15 steps in a row.
Unbelievable.
June 23, 2005 | Uncategorized
Who wants to lay money down that Claudia will really start walking this weekend when Gabe and I are at the lake?
That would be just like my daughter. She will come up and give me a hug and a kiss, and stand hugging me and then she will give me a little love pinch with her tiny razor claws. She is going to be something else when she gets to be a teenager.
Claudia is beautiful and smart and funny, but she is stubborn and short tempered too. She is also mean when she is mad. Ian almost always has bite marks somewhere on his body. I already feel bad for all her boyfriends and her husband. They have no idea what they are in for. I can only imagine what I am in for.
Gabe has plans to torture her when she is a teenager. He made these plans long before we even started trying to have children. He is going take her to the mall and yell embarrassing things out the window. He is going to make fun of whoever the boy band du jour is. I know that Ian will back him up on this and I’m going to have to convince her that her father and brother don’t hate her. Here is a recent one:
Gabe: …And when her boyfriends come over, I am going to dance.
Me: You wouldn’t! (pause) What kind of dance?
Gabe: It doesn’t matter.
Me: That is the worst thing you could possibly do to her.
…and Gabe is a good dancer.
Either way, I know she is going to walk when we are gone. In a way I’m glad because I really want her to walk, and I think she will be much happier when she realizes that she can walk. But I also think it is going to make me sad to miss it, and then I’ll feel like a bad parent. Then she will bite me again, and I will get over it.
June 22, 2005 | Uncategorized
You might want to skip this one if you don’t watch childrens programming for at least an hour each day, but…
Miffy is a bunny. Her best friend is a bear. Her neighbor friends are pigs. How can she have a dog as her pet? It just doesn’t seem fair to the poor dog. The same goes for Oswald. How can an octopus have a hot dog for a pet, and be friends with a flower? (As a side note, Sqiggy, from “Laverne and Shirley” does the voice of the penguin on “Oswald” and I find it very distracting).
Erin raised a good question the other day. On “Bob the Builder“, are Bob and Wendy an item? And what is the deal with the cat, Pilchard? Does he live with Bob? Does he live with Wendy? Do they have joint custody? What kind of name is Pilchard anyway? I looked it up and it means “Any of various small marine fishes related to the herrings, especially a commercially important edible species, Sardina pilchardus, of European waters“.
I won’t even get into my problems with “Oobi“. I think “Oobi” surpasses “The Teletubbies” for creepiness.
