Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday Feast
Labels: Friday Feast
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Jami's Big Day Out
First, the Children's Museum - the Husband, Eddie and I met Eddie's Gymboree classmate Sophie and her mom for an afternoon of "educational" fun. I put the word in quotes because at his age basically everything you do teaches you something, even just spinning in a circle, and also because pretty much anything aimed at kids these days is advertised as educational, including cereal boxes and socks (I am NOT making that up). Anyway, first we explored the toddler area, which included a wall-sized Lite Brite, a nice big sand table, and most important to Eddie, three large train tables. We then moved onto the famous (or possibly infamous)Waterplay. Sophie's mom had wisely brought Sophie a bathing suit, and after surveying the entire floor of splashing, spouting and running water, we stripped Eddie to his onesie. For the next hour, the two of them devoted themselves to being as soaked as humanly possible.
We also had lunch at the museum cafe, during which time Sophie showed off by eating her entire healthy balanced meal, while Eddie ate one bite of chicken, attempted to feed Sophie the rest of his food and steal the Husband's chips. A good time was had by all.
Our family returned home long enough for me to put Eddie down for a nap, clean the bathroom and take a nap of my own, and then we dropped the boy off with my parents and hit CiCi's Pizza. If you're not familiar with this chain - it's a pizza buffet. There's also pasta and salad, but people generally take a token amount of each before stuffing themselves with slices from ordinary (pepperoni) to exotic (barbecue chicken) to just plain bizarre (mac and cheese). I like to save room for their excellent cinnamon rolls, warm and gooey, just what you need on top of a belly-full of melty cheese and crust.
Finally we met up with another couple to see Hot Fuzz which I recommend if you both like British humor and aren't squeamish. It's a riot, by the way.
So now the baby is sleeping and the Husband and I are watching Mythbusters and just chilling. It's not anything you're going to read about on Page Six, but baby, this IS the life.
Eddie at the Lite Brite:
Eddie and Sophie at Waterplay
Raiding the Gift Shop
Jami Surfing with a Penguin
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Plenty on My Mind, Nothin' to Say
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Whoo Hoooo!
Saturday, April 21, 2007
12 Steps to the Checkout Counter
Friday, April 20, 2007
Friday Feast
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
O, Maury, Who Art Thou?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
When It Rains, It Pours. In the Kitchen.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Reflections on United 93
Monday, April 16, 2007
A Day That Will Live in Infamy
I'm Gonna Need a Special Cord for That
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Your Friendly Neighborhood Eddie-Mom
AND then there was the Green Goblin. I have seen this movie plenty of times, but not since becoming a mommy. So here we sat, watching the movie when the Goblin shows up and my reaction (inside my head) is "AHHHHHHH!!!! That thing is scary!!!" It's hideous, really - big scary teeth, shiny dead gold eyes (see below). It occurs to me that I am a horrible mother, exposing my impressionable young boy to this terrifying creature, who is still on screen blowing things up. I start to say something along the lines of "Ooooh, bad guy, don't worry, Spider-Man is coming." When Eddie points at him and says, in a nice matter-of-fact voice "Green". Totally unfazed, just noting the color just like: "Look, Mommy. He's green." Soon enough Spidey showed up and drove off the Goblin, saved the girl, blah blah blah. As soon as the action stopped, Eddie turned around, made the sign for "more" and said "M-yan" which is what he calls Spider-Man.
I couldn't fast forward fast enough for his taste. He's got no patience, this one, and he's in trouble, I think, because he'll not see good role modeling of it here. I try to have patience, but that's tiring.
I'm going to see if Spider-Man 2 has more Spider-Man in it. There's the whole section where he decides to just be Peter Parker, so I don't know. If not, I'll have to decide which is more annoying, the Doodlebops or skipping through M-yan.
It's not easy being green.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Friday Feast
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Spring, When The Brides are in Bloom
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Just the One?
Just Another Manic Mon .. no, Tues. . . Oh, Wednesday.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Happy Easter, Everyone
Labels: Religion
Friday Feast
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Clear and Present Danger
Labels: Civil Rights, Just Me
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Open Your Eyes, Look Up to the Skies and See
- They want us for food. Let's face it, humans are delicious and numerous.
- They want our world for its resources or for farming. In this case, we are pretty much just in the way. Like any farm, if an animal is eating the crops (or using the resources), extermination is easiest. And if it's resources they're after, the sooner the better.
- They want slave labor. Yes, many of us are flabby and weak, but with some appropriate retraining, most will be stronger and healthier and the rest will be dead.
- This is unlikely, but it's our best case scenario - they are some sort of ecologists who just want a small sample for their intergalatic zoo. Don't count on it.
As I told the Husband, one of these, or a combination of them, is not going to go well with us. Even if, and I wouldn't even set odds on this one, they show up like the Vulcans, just wantin' to get to know us and be our pals, take a lesson from history. What happens when two cultures collide? Disease, death, struggle, violence. Never works well.
So really, our greatest hope, in the event that some offworld visitors drop by is that we (meaning you and me, friend, not the entire race) are somehow more aesthetically pleasing to our new Evil Overlords and they take us home to Mrs. Evil Overlord to be a pampered pet. We'll be trained to sit and speak and be carried around in handbags. At this point, the Husband seemed to be having some sort of giggling problem, especially when I told him that I'd be the one laughing when he's wearing a rhinestone collar with a tag that says "Zorgblatt".
Zorgblatt won't find it so funny when they do to him what we do to our male pets.
Labels: Contingency Plans, Geekdom, Just Me, Silliness