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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Holidaze
This is from our November trip to Texas. These are Jim's nieces Elyssa and Lainey. We had to run around behind Elyssa to get this picture -- she would not come sit with us. We basically tricked her. She's about 25 months here I think. Lainey is about 5 days and very sweet.
This is from last week in Arizona. Elyssa was trumpeting randomly and I said "oh you have a Doot Dee Doot!" I took one and trumpeted "Doot Dee Doot". She took it up immediately, so I told her to go show her uncle Jim. 30 seconds later I heard Jim say "oh you have a Doot Dee Doot!". I looked at Jim's brother and said "I know what Jim likes." (I'm holding Angel, see more below.)
"**yawn** it's three in the morning, why are you taking my picture?"
These people know how to party. They go to Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (some of us napped instead) and then open presents, and then eat. We sat down at the table at 3:10 am.
Then the real "party" is Christmas night when a hundred or so people wander through. I got to do a Lot of baby wrangling as mom and dad were busy. Angel didn't like that hat much. She's Jim's brother's brother-in-law's baby. Or something. Anyway this is her house and these are *her* toys and we had a good time. That's Elyssa (Jim's niece) again, and a 5 year old visitor who was very interested in the baby.
Later that night we've lost the hat. If you look really closely you can see me falling over sideways under Angel. I'm not really sitting on top of Elyssa, although eventually Angel starting body surfing.
"Okay, you kept us up until 4am the other night and now you're taking us hundreds of miles to sit us in the snow. What is up with you people?" This is Angel's dad Johan. He and I spent a lot of time bonding over Angel. He's a very nice guy and doing a great hands-on-Dad job.
I really didn't think I'd ever see Jim in snow. Oh yeah and that's the Grand Canyon in the background.
Speaking of cold and snow, we are both sick. Back to the couch with me. Happy New Year!
This is from last week in Arizona. Elyssa was trumpeting randomly and I said "oh you have a Doot Dee Doot!" I took one and trumpeted "Doot Dee Doot". She took it up immediately, so I told her to go show her uncle Jim. 30 seconds later I heard Jim say "oh you have a Doot Dee Doot!". I looked at Jim's brother and said "I know what Jim likes." (I'm holding Angel, see more below.)
"**yawn** it's three in the morning, why are you taking my picture?"
These people know how to party. They go to Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (some of us napped instead) and then open presents, and then eat. We sat down at the table at 3:10 am.Then the real "party" is Christmas night when a hundred or so people wander through. I got to do a Lot of baby wrangling as mom and dad were busy. Angel didn't like that hat much. She's Jim's brother's brother-in-law's baby. Or something. Anyway this is her house and these are *her* toys and we had a good time. That's Elyssa (Jim's niece) again, and a 5 year old visitor who was very interested in the baby.
Later that night we've lost the hat. If you look really closely you can see me falling over sideways under Angel. I'm not really sitting on top of Elyssa, although eventually Angel starting body surfing.
"Okay, you kept us up until 4am the other night and now you're taking us hundreds of miles to sit us in the snow. What is up with you people?" This is Angel's dad Johan. He and I spent a lot of time bonding over Angel. He's a very nice guy and doing a great hands-on-Dad job.
I really didn't think I'd ever see Jim in snow. Oh yeah and that's the Grand Canyon in the background.
Speaking of cold and snow, we are both sick. Back to the couch with me. Happy New Year!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Getting My Ducks in a Row
How'm I doing? Just ducky:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/16/i-likes-u-ducky-1-i-eat-u-last/
My classes at Miramar are going very well. I carried out my first "lesson plan" last week. I went over to their child care center, and for five or ten minutes I led them through "Heads shoulders knees and toes," some stretching, and some jumping.
I tried to invent a game for the stretching... "look, it's a bird in a tree! can you reach it?" but I think the "guy in the bunny suit off to the side who wanted to high five us" was too much for the tallest boy, who said very politely, "excuse me, I don't want to do this stuff anymore" and I told him "Okay, that's fine, you can go" and he fled to the playdoh. I bet he wished he was jumping with us, though.
The kids' teacher praised me for my presentation, and was glad it was so active.
It was fun. I go back tomorrow, and we will mix up plain yogurt, bananas, strawberries, squeezed oranges and limes, cherry juice, and honey. I'll pretend to teach them some stuff about vitamins and we'll eat :)
For each ten minutes with the kids, I take a few hours of vacation time from work. Totally worth it :)
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/16/i-likes-u-ducky-1-i-eat-u-last/
My classes at Miramar are going very well. I carried out my first "lesson plan" last week. I went over to their child care center, and for five or ten minutes I led them through "Heads shoulders knees and toes," some stretching, and some jumping.
I tried to invent a game for the stretching... "look, it's a bird in a tree! can you reach it?" but I think the "guy in the bunny suit off to the side who wanted to high five us" was too much for the tallest boy, who said very politely, "excuse me, I don't want to do this stuff anymore" and I told him "Okay, that's fine, you can go" and he fled to the playdoh. I bet he wished he was jumping with us, though.
The kids' teacher praised me for my presentation, and was glad it was so active.
It was fun. I go back tomorrow, and we will mix up plain yogurt, bananas, strawberries, squeezed oranges and limes, cherry juice, and honey. I'll pretend to teach them some stuff about vitamins and we'll eat :)
For each ten minutes with the kids, I take a few hours of vacation time from work. Totally worth it :)
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
whimper
Jim's out of town. Normally I can't get myself to go out by myself, but one of my favorite bands was playing. I didn't think I could do two bands, so I skipped the opener and went late.
I was "just in time" except... the wrong band came out. And the lady in front of me said "this band is older than the other band". I had a bad feeling so I asked... I MISSED IT!
It was way crowded and the music didn't grab me much right then (through my bitter disappointment of course) ... so I left.
Whimper.
The band names are in equal type, the other band first, and the band I wanted to see, second... but now I see the tiny tiny picture in the ad is of the other band.
Well, I tried. And if I had not tried, I wouldn't know this would have happened, and would have felt bad for not going. Argh.
I was "just in time" except... the wrong band came out. And the lady in front of me said "this band is older than the other band". I had a bad feeling so I asked... I MISSED IT!
It was way crowded and the music didn't grab me much right then (through my bitter disappointment of course) ... so I left.
Whimper.
The band names are in equal type, the other band first, and the band I wanted to see, second... but now I see the tiny tiny picture in the ad is of the other band.
Well, I tried. And if I had not tried, I wouldn't know this would have happened, and would have felt bad for not going. Argh.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
Motivating what?
At work, to celebrate the new world order, they took down, in the mailroom, all the pics of people who have worked here over the last 30 years, and their kids, at picnics and stuff... and put up "motivational" stuff, for example, a pic of a DOG POOPING. Yay.
(It says "are you straining for your next (whatever, I forget)?")
(It says "are you straining for your next (whatever, I forget)?")
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