Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A beautiful what?

We took a photo of the cousins together by our brick at Allen Fieldhouse. Marina's purse is resting on our brick, you can see my name is the last name on there.

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Evey has had a couple good one-liners recently.

She drew a map of the planets for me, and started naming each one. Her planets were wildly out of order, but I couldn't put them in order either.

Evey was pointing out each planet to me.

"Dad, this is Mars... that's Neptune... here's earth... then Venus... that's Planet Druidia..."

So, I'm happy that Princess Vespa's home planet, from the movie "Spaceballs," made her list of planets.

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We throw the term "brilliant" around the house loosely, usually in jest. I'm always coming up with brilliant ideas.

The other day I had a brilliant idea, and I shared it with Evey. Evey shrugged off my plan, and gave me her own. We agreed to disagree.

"Dad, my idea is brillianter than your idea," she told me.

That... we agreed on.

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We were sitting at the dinner table and Evey started complaining about one of her classmates in her dance class. This mean girl, she told us, encouraged Evey to make the wrong dance moves.

"Which girl?" we asked.

"Well, she's the mean one. You know who she is. She has the beautiful retard."

Me and Adro tried to keep a straight face.

Turns out this girl had a beautiful LEOTARD... so she at least had that going for her.

Leotard is way brillianter.

Things me and the wife looked up on YouTube on our big screen while we hung out tonight

Smashing Pumpkins acoustic
NIN Lollapalooza 2008
Zero 7
REM acoustic
For Squirrels
The Sheila Divine
Radiohead Lollapalooza 2008
Thom Yorke Orpheum
Lemonheads
Cure covers

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Friday, November 18, 2011

Say "cheese... burger!"




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The ewok is sleeping


Got the whole family out at McDonald's, got the Johnsons with us, too... Photos to come.

Right now, Boydie is sleeping in his bear costume.

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TGIF, from Boyd Atticus




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Monday, November 14, 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

Post something here, maybe about 11/11/11


What the heck happened?!? Where am I?

Sorry, folks. It's just that my favorite reader -- one Mrs. Adrianne Jones -- is currently on maternity leave. She's with me at home, where I work. 

I find less inspiration to post on the blog when my lovely missus is with me everyday, not checking her computer all that often. Sorry. I like you too, dear reader. Just not as much as my wife. You understand, right?

Things are good here. Boyd is getting good sleep. He's a good boy.

Evey has been gassy lately. Still sweet, but gassy. 

Dad has just been gassy.

Adrianne still glows as she walks on little cushions of air with every step she takes. Sigh...

Happy 11/11/11... and in 11 minutes, it'll be 11:11 on 11/11/11. I better dance, or something.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

We can afford that stove

The Neutebooms came and visited us last week and even brought gifts for the kids and dinner for all of us! Very nice, thank you 'Booms.

Couple quick hits:

-- Evey has an alarm clock in her room now. She's really excited about this. I told her it's nothing to be excited about, it's actually quite sad that she's old enough to need one. But she's thrilled. She told her grandma all about it on the phone tonight, like she just got a new bicycle or something...

-- Adro was looking through the Pottery Barn catalog tonight and Evey saw a kid's play kitchen. It was really nice, and it was also $300. "Mom, I need that," Evey told Adro. "My kitchen is really old."

Technically, Evey, NOTHING YOU OWN can qualify as "really old," but she was determined to talk mom into this new play stove. Adro then tried to explain to her that it was way too expensive... mom and dad could practically buy a new fridge for what they were asking for this play stove. To drive the point home even more, Adro told Evey, "Listen, the money you've saved in the bank so far? It would take almost all of it to buy this toy."

Evey got excited. "Good!" she said. "I have enough to get it."

-- Boyd continues to sleep well. He grunts a lot when he sleeps, but he's not waking up, he's just grunting.

-- I've got Sporting Kansas City tickets for tomorrow night, just in time for the 40-degree drop in temperature and sleet. Great!