Joe the Bunny
My brother Joe and his wife Michelle are watching our kids while Adrienne and I are on a trip. He just IMed me with something our 5 year old, Anna, said apropos of nothing.
"Hey, I have an idea. When you lose a member of your family, you can just replace them with a pet. And the name would be no problem because you could just name them after the person you lost. I think I would want a fuzzy easter bunny. Hey, do you think reindeer talk?"
She is so going to kill him, buy a bunny, and name it Joe.
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The free wifi in SEATAC that sends all the world's knowledge right to my hands is running slowly today and now I feel grumpy. #fb
What did you THINK we would be talking about?
Walked past the kids' room just now and heard the eight-year-old and five-year-old talking.
"Hey, what are you guys still doing up?! What on earth are you talking about?"
"Dad, Anna had never heard of Martin Luther King and I was just giving her a quick overview of who he was and his most famous speech."
"Uh, OK, carry on..."
Shopping Cart-iquette « sharbrough.net
If you find yourself absolutely unable to replace the cart, after your best effort, just ask me for help. I'm very good at putting them back. I'm kind of strong. I can push the whole row together tighter. I've practiced and I can often roll a cart into the back of the last cart in the corral from a distance of 50 feet. It's great sport, and if a cart sails wide on me, I just laugh at it while I chase it and put it back like it goes.
Glow, Little Glow Reese
Reese accidentally cracked open a little glow stick he was playing with today. He asked if he could pour the liquid out into a jar. The glow stick was labeled "Non-Toxic" so we thought that seemed like a fun idea. He got a pair of scissors out and was cutting up the glow stick so he could more easily get the liquid out when we heard him yell, "Oh no!"
When he cut the little stick the top went flying. He happened to be standing at the sink in the master bedroom. You could just barely see a couple of liquid dots on the carpet glowing faintly. That is until I turned out the lights and we saw this:
Awesome!
I don't think we have to clean it up because you can't really see it with the light on and that stuff will probably stop glowing in a day or two right?
Then Reese pointed out that he thought he might have gotten it on his face as well. If you look closely you can see, sure enough, he did.
We turned off the light again. Somehow we were so amazed by the carpet that we had missed this!
Awesome! I hope it is permanent!
The moral of the story is that if you let your kids play with strange chemicals fun things will happen.
Mom can you help
"Momkanyoohelpeikat toonmiyooklale"
Our five-year-old, Anna, left this note on Adrienne's iphone this morning.
Translation:
"Mom can you help? I can't tune my ukulele."
How the Israelis do airport security – CNN.com
Yeffett: We must look at the qualifications of the candidate for security jobs. He must be educated. He must speak two languages. He must be trained for a long time, in classrooms. He must receive on-the-job training with a supervisor for weeks to make sure that the guy understands how to approach a passenger, how to convince him to cooperate with him, because the passenger is taking the flight and we are on the ground. The passengers have to understand that the security is doing it for their benefit. via How the Israelis do airport security - CNN.com.
This sounds exactly like TSA to me...
Milestones on Minorities and Poverty in Southern Schools – NYTimes.com
“We’ve got to figure out how to break the cycle of poverty, and the way we’re doing it now isn’t working,” said Hank M. Bounds, the Mississippi commissioner of higher education and, until recently, the state superintendent of schools. “An affluent 5-year-old has about the same vocabulary as an adult living in poverty.”
via Milestones on Minorities and Poverty in Southern Schools - NYTimes.com.
This just kills me. So horrible.
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Been sitting on a 100% full plane stuck at the gate since 6. #iloveairtravel #southwest #fb
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5 full days w/o a single bite to eat. Nothing. Now eating toast w/ butter and my pass out it is so good! #fb
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Surgery went. They said close call but were able to do laproscopic. Gallbladder was unholy nightmare. Home tomorrow it seems #fb
(That was supposed to say "Surgery went well"!)
