SIGN OF THE SEASON: Yesterday we spied some Count Chocula in the store. Though it seemed omnipresent during my childhood, these days, it only makes an annual appearance around Halloween. We bought a box and the kids both had it for breakfast. (It's chock full o' vitamins! Really! ;) )DO YOU SEE ME NOW?: This afternoon, Annabelle was darting around the house. She stopped only long enough to ask (with a straight face), "When I run so fast, am I a blur?"
Um, no.
Um, no.
PICKIN' AND GRINNING: This afternoon CJ harvested half of our apples. That's right, he plucked one of the two apples growing on a spindly, crooked, tipping over tree planted a couple of years ago.
CANT TAKE THEM ANYWHERE: This afternoon we had to head to Fred Meyer to buy more ink for the thirsty HP printer. (Seriously, I need a new printer. This thing drinks expensive ink cartridges like a Hummer burns gasoline.)
We're on our way in the store and in front of the home electronics department, Annabelle decides to start running. It was a poor decision, as about three steps into her dash she does one of those launch-horizontally-into-the-air-then-rocket-forward-before-landing-on-the-belly falls. It was impressive, as far as trips go, and awful, of course. We got her put back together and went in search of our ink cartridges. We find them and as we're checking out, a young boy, about 4, is standing about 8 feet away, absolutely STARING at us, unblinking. As we wait in line, the kid continues to stand and stare. And stare. Finally, CJ says, rather loudly, "What is that weird kid doing?"
Doh!
Naturally, we had A Talk about his choice of words. :0 Interestingly enough, in talking to CJ about it, what bothered him most about it was that the kid didn't appear to have any parent in the vicinity. That weirded CJ out. ;) I told him that we all frequently look at other people and think, "That's weird!" but calling someone weird out loud and in public is pretty much frowned upon. He felt horrible and assured me "There will be NO MORE embarrassing moments in Fred Meyer." AOK, CeeJ. :)
HOME WRECKERS: So, should I take it personally that while I'm toiling on Star Trek and Star Wars cookies for the kids' biggest bro's birthday that Annabelle and CJ are each browsing the Cake Wrecks Web site, laughing HYSTERICALLY. Wonder if they were expecting to find any of my past projects there ... CJ found the blog about awful Mickey Mouse cakes especially amusing.
We're on our way in the store and in front of the home electronics department, Annabelle decides to start running. It was a poor decision, as about three steps into her dash she does one of those launch-horizontally-into-the-air-then-rocket-forward-before-landing-on-the-belly falls. It was impressive, as far as trips go, and awful, of course. We got her put back together and went in search of our ink cartridges. We find them and as we're checking out, a young boy, about 4, is standing about 8 feet away, absolutely STARING at us, unblinking. As we wait in line, the kid continues to stand and stare. And stare. Finally, CJ says, rather loudly, "What is that weird kid doing?"
Doh!
Naturally, we had A Talk about his choice of words. :0 Interestingly enough, in talking to CJ about it, what bothered him most about it was that the kid didn't appear to have any parent in the vicinity. That weirded CJ out. ;) I told him that we all frequently look at other people and think, "That's weird!" but calling someone weird out loud and in public is pretty much frowned upon. He felt horrible and assured me "There will be NO MORE embarrassing moments in Fred Meyer." AOK, CeeJ. :)
HOME WRECKERS: So, should I take it personally that while I'm toiling on Star Trek and Star Wars cookies for the kids' biggest bro's birthday that Annabelle and CJ are each browsing the Cake Wrecks Web site, laughing HYSTERICALLY. Wonder if they were expecting to find any of my past projects there ... CJ found the blog about awful Mickey Mouse cakes especially amusing.
Hopefully, these treats won't show up there anytime soon ...
I got the design for the Star Trek cookies from a great blog called Bakingdom.com.
OH AND: We did math and language arts today too. Srsly.
I got the design for the Star Trek cookies from a great blog called Bakingdom.com.OH AND: We did math and language arts today too. Srsly. 
The Star Trek cookies are really good. Spock is the best.
ReplyDeleteAnd CJ was right to notice something unusual, it was just the audible expression that was a minor social issue.
I was partial to Uhura, myself.
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