Hello everyone. Another long rambly thing from me. Feel free to skip. I won’t be hurt. Heck, *I* probably won’t read this thing again after tonight. This week has been a good one, even though the (sudden. actual.) snow here in Raincouver has been messing with my commute. I’ve been playing with the “real” version…
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Being cute is a survival tactic.
So I walk into the bedroom, and I’m grabbing some socks (in our place, with the dying hardwood floors, socks are more of a necessary sacrificial object, lest you get a toe or two sliced open, instead of a sock or two), and I look into the crib and see Tate sleeping in pretty much…
For parents (like me, and SomeChick) of sushi-lovin’ kids
Jake Ludington has put together a very cute little video of How to Make Chopsticks Kid-Friendly, which saves us the hassle of having to carry around the plastic rhinoceros-topped plastic chopsticks whenever we wanna go get sushi at the local all-you-can-eat sushi place, or even the local Mongolie Grill. I don’t know where we’re supposed…
And now, a little song…
Vacay06 Day Three: Grass, Amish Stuffing, busted sprinklers, and (serious) rain.
So today we got up around 10am localtime, which is 7am PST, which is still “First Thing” Ripley-mean-time. Breakfast consisted of fruit-sweetened cheerio-like things, and I gotta say: if that’s fruit-sweetened, I’m afraid of what unsweetened would be like. Coffee-bag (like tea bags) took the edge off, but I just couldn’t seem to get moving….
Vacay06 Day Two: In which our heroes drove & flew and sat around, and then flew and drove again.
We’re here, and it’s late (for here), and so this’ll be short. We were only “those people” with “those children” for about 15 minutes during the first (and longest leg) of our journey, so all in all, it went really well. Ripley looked out the window at stuff, and Tate was just cute and sleepy…
Vacay06 Day 1.8: Worst Chinese Food, EVAAAR…
So, on the first night of our adventure, we stayed in Kent, at the quiet and reasonably-priced Best Western “On the Green,” which means every room (that’s not overlooking the parking lot) is overlooking the uh… golfers. Actually, it was mostly overlooking the ducks, and the occasional golfcart. I had visions of Rip and I…
Vacay06 Day One: It’s like some whole other country or something.
Everything, including the kiddies and (only!) ten toys for Rip into my mom’s car, and away we went. We drove from our place in downtown Vancouver straight through to Bellis Fair, where Arwen got a whole schwack of stuff she’s really happy about at maybe 30% what she would’ve paid for the same things in…
Baraka for four year olds – what was I thinking?
So, about two weeks ago, Riplechip and I watched part of Baraka on the computer, and I thought it would be interesting for him to see/hear this incredibly beautiful film. He was rapt. From the Ramayana monkey chant to the crazed high-speed footage of traffic in New York and pedestrian crosswalks in China. I wanted…
A trip down memory lane for us Sesame Street Kids
Folded Space has a great colleciton of links for video clips from Sesame Street. Awesome. From the site: I state quite confidently that this is the best entry I’ve made in five years of weblogging. Go away if you have work things to get done. This is an enormous time-waster. Below you’ll find a fantastic…