Young children need more recognition in dictionaries for coining phrases and words.
Having dinner last night of cucumbers with ranch dressing, ham rolls, and cheese. Abby cried out, when she noticed her ranch was missing.
Momma! Don’t forget my ranch dipping!
Ladies and Gentlemen, this family has a new word.
Now, back to the fun stuff.
Got this from a co-worker and immediately thought of the Zimmerman Deutsch.
Lindsay’s Technical Books
I have only had time to scan the front page but it looks like something The Amboy Deutsch would love to get their grubs on.
Okay,
I don’t like the Google reader. It still has some growing up to do. I mostly don’t like the inability to quickly scan which sources have new postings.
Rather, I have to scroll through a myriad of sometimes uninteresting posts to get to the family ones I am most interested in.
The ability to scan is further hampered by a somewhat laggard interface.
Gotta like Google but I like Vienna better for reading RSS posts.
Sorry PeeCee’s, Mac OS X only.
If you check many blogs (more than two or three) and you want an easy way to check for updates you could be in the market for an RSS reader.
Google, in their wisdom, has now introduced a pretty slick one. You can find it at the Google Labs page, www.google.com/reader .
It is a pretty useful reader, I am still getting used to some of it’s quirks but take a look.
This, in a nutshell, is how our christmas panned out.
Angela, Abby, and I are very lucky to have such a wonderful family, wonderful friends, and a very fortunate life.
The one Abby-ism that can’t be passed up:
Laying in bed at 08:30 waiting for Abby to wake up. I have been awake since 07:00…waiting.
08:30 and Angela and I are BOTH awake and growing more impatient.
So we start coughing loudly to no avail. Abby is sleeping more soundly than she did when she was an infant. Finally, I throw some weight behind a cough.
What is THAT? The Christmas Yeti!?
She is right and we start to giggle, which turns to muffled laughter and then a squeaky voice from the far side of the room.
Hey you guys, go back sleeping.
What…Why?
Cause Santa has to come.
(together) Honey, it’s morning-time. I think Santa has already come?
(pause…and then getting to her knees.) Pbbbbbllllgghghg!
As if SHE has been the one lying awake for the past hour and a half waiting for Santa.
We went downstairs and welcomed the morning.
A Festivus for the rest of us!
What a wonderful day it was.
This is a snapshot from before we watched the Nutcracker yesterday.
Abby was very excited and she enjoyed the show very much.
I got a tear in my eye as the show opened as I was so excited to see her so entranced by the lights and the production.
She was very engaged and with the exception of some fidgety minutes where she attempted to give Momma her belly button halfway through Act II she followed the drama closely. Her attention was clearly not held during that bit.
I think she expects to attend again next year.
The quality stinks on these images, they are only slightly better when they are moving (video) but you get the idea.
The recital went over very well. I know there were tears from Auntie Pam perhaps even some from Momma.
Abby was cute, beaming with the fun of it all, and she did very well to boot.
She even got in her full length bow at the end.
Think you can pick her out of the crowd below…I put in a subtle hint to assist where necessary.
After talking with James and Will at the party yesterday I felt this may be something others would like to enjoy. (BTW, this is the music site Bill mentions over on his page.)
Basically, create a free account, name an artist or a song and based on the huge library of musical selections in the Music Genome Project the flash application at Pandora.com will play music in radio station format that is similar to what you chose. You can choose to skip songs but you can’t go back and replay previous titles. You can choose those that you like or dislike to further refine your chosen station.
Pretty neat. Thanks to Tony for showing this to me.
So, does that fulfill my music related blog posting requirement Jame?
The web certainly allows us to find out things we never would have…in like 3 minutes.
This is probably just the tip of the iceberg for what we know about Narwhals but check it out…their tusks have much more meaning than we thought.
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotScience?m=468
The science section of Slashdot.org is pretty cool by the way.
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