Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Happy Birthday, Maya and Bryn!
10:10:00 AM
Friday, June 23, 2006
Lately whenever the kids get balloons, it seems that Maya's always breaks. Maya usually bursts into tears, and Bryn, unprompted, usually offers her own balloon to her sister. In the latest version of this scene, Maya instantly perked up upon being offered the new balloon, grinning and running off to play with it. Seeing this, Bryn said Mama, did you see how happy that made her? I don't know whether to be proud of Bryn's thoughtfulness or worried that she's taking too much responsibility for her sister's happiness. The complexities of being a parent...
11:45:00 PM
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
From the totally-off-topic department...
Alphabetizing the 80s, MTV-style:After the Fire, The Bangles, Big Audio Dynamite, Bobby McFerrin, Bronski Beat, The Cars, The Cure, Dead or Alive, Eurythmics, The Feelies, A Flock of Seagulls, Fun Boy Three, General Public, The Go-Gos, Huey Louis & the News, INXS, Joy Division, Katrina and the Waves, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, Love and Rockets, MARRS, Ministry, Missing Persons, Nena, Paul Simon, The Pogues, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Robert Palmer, Scritti Politti, Sinead O'Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Stewart Copeland & Stan Ridgeway, Suzanne Vega, Thomas Dolby, The Thompson Twins, Til Tuesday, Tone Loc, The Waitresses, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, XTC, X, 10000 Maniacs or if you want to be pickier:The Art of Noise, B-52s, Bananarama, Billy Bragg, Blues Brothers, Bow Wow Wow, Buster Poindexter, Chris Isaak, The Clash, Cowboy Junkies, Depeche Mode, Devo, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, Elvis Costello, The English Beat, Fairground Attraction, Fine Young Cannibals, Joboxers, Joe Jackson, Living Colour, Lone Justice, Madness, Modern English, Peter Gabriel, The Police, The Pretenders, Prince, The Replacements, The Smiths, The Specials, Steel Pulse, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stray Cats, Talking Heads, Tanita Tikaram, Terence Trent D'Arby, Tom Tom Club, UB-40, Violent Femmes Why these lists, when such a narrow focus isn't really enough to seed a music recommendation service for material from other eras? Well, the next time you're throwing a theme party for folks of a certain age, you may need a whitebread dance mix to get 'em to work up a sweat. ;-)
12:26:00 AM
Friday, June 09, 2006
Quote of the day, courtesy of Maya: There's a traffic jam in the fridge. Other creative phrases we've heard recently include "the palm of your foot" and--our new favorite way to distinguish a dinner fork from a salad fork--"uppercase fork." If only we parents could be that imaginative!
10:31:00 AM
Thursday, June 08, 2006
This week the kids did their first real dive. The trick? One foot goes on the edge of the pool with the toes curled over the edge while the other foot goes behind that foot. The kids then lift up the back leg and fall right in, head first!
6:49:00 AM
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