Psychic Dustbunnies

Tyler In London

So we are in London for spring break with the boys, tyler got a little sick on the way over and then the first day had just orange juice for breakfast - threw up in the hotel elevator right after!  Great way to start the trip.  He told us that London in sickening.

But his best quote came later.  Pam had talked to the boys sometime about paparazzi and how they take pictures of famous people and bother them...  We were going out to Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guards and I asked Tyler if he was going to take his camera 'Are the guards famous?' "Yes" 'Then i don't want to because they will think I'm paparazzi.'

Chess Tournament

Johnny & Tyler played in a chess tournament today.  Tyler ended up winning for 1st graders and Johnny had a bit of bad luck with 2 stalemates and 2 draws.  Good job guys! 
A picture from their performance in Pirates of Penzance (if you click it, it's big!):

The Producal Manager

Tyler put on my coat this evening and told me he was wearing my 'producal manager suit.'  He then pointed around and said 'you take out the trash, you do the research, you bring the donuts, you bring the soda.'  I think I should hire him!

Tyler's Bad Day

Snippets of an IM with my dad about Tyler's bad day from last night (Tyler's 5):

Johnny made a boat in cub scouts and Tyler is dying because johnny won't let him take it in the bath
pam explained 'when you're in cub scouts you're gonna make stuff you don't want johnny to play with'
tyler: - we'll i'll be much nicer
'daddy i'll never make one of those boats cuz it will take 980 years, i'll have a different teacher so i won't make one
dad i'm the one who shares mostly - i share but johnny doesn't and i don't get it, cuz i try to be friendly but it's not fair

he's also very unhappy that if he ate his lunch it would blow around so he couldn't eat it all - he was on a field trip.

Johnny's Spelling Bee

Warning - Parent Bragging Ahead:

Johnny competed in the spelling bee this week - elementary through 8th grade. As a 3rd grader he finished 4th in the school - beat only by a couple 8th graders and a 6th grader. Missed going to the next level by one 5-letter word (no one remembers what it was).

Made all the more imporessive considering he spent half the night awake crying with an earache, which was diagnosed as 'near burst ear drum' in the morning before the spelling bee!

Great job Johnny.

Porkly Like A Skunk

I didn't shave yesterday and tyler was sitting on my lap and rubbed my chin. he said 'your face is porkly.' Porkly? 'Yeah, like a skunk.' You mean a porcupine? 'yes'

A Conversation With Tyler

"Dad is the world a square?" No it's a circle, like a ball. "Well I thought if it was a circle that when you walk up hill you might slip." No because it is a big circle so it seems flat where you are. "So it's like a really big ball?" Yes "So are we on top and the people on the other side are up-side-down?"

Well, let's put it this way:
The major premises of Copernicus's theory are:
1. the earth rotates daily on its axis and
2. revolves yearly around the sun.

He argued, furthermore, that the planets also circle the sun, and that the earth precesses on its axis (wobbles like a top) as it rotates. Later, Galileo's observations with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of Copernicus's sun-centered or heliocentric theory.

Ok - it went more like this:
Well, the earth spins slowly and rotates around the sun so sometimes we're on top and sometimes they are but you never feel like you are upside down."
The fun of explaining gravity, copernicus, etc. to a five year old!

I thought there would be something inside it

I stopped by the bakery on the way home from work the other evening. Looking for a pumpkin pie since johnny asked why we never have pumpkin pie (he found out during thanksgiving that he actually really liked it).

No pumpkin, no apple, no anything but a chocolate cream pie. I'm not a huge fan of chocolate cream pie but as I had stopped and gone in I felt i couldn't leave empty handed, so I bought one. Now you have to understand, I am on a mission to convince my boys to eat more pie. The reasoning is that Pam cares very little for pie or other deserts (except ben and jerry's and brownies) and if I can swing the boys to the pie side it will mean more pie for me ('more' as opposed to 'none'). So I figured I'd a try with the chocolate cream pie.

Johnny balked and flatly refused to eat any. Tyler, our 5 year old foodie, agreed to try a bite and loved it. So he asked for a slice. About half way through he came over to me and said 'I thought there would be something inside it." I had the same feeling actually - back to the drawing board.

Amishrobot's New Baby

Stopped by with the boys to see baby Anna Jane, she's definitely a cutie. Congrats guys.

Olympic Thoughts

I've been watching some of the olympics with Tyler and Johnny today. Tyler has decided he's a China fan and is rooting for the Chinese in every event. Johnny wants to know why he doesn't speak Chinese since he was born in Singapore... He also thinks the diving commentators really need to stop knocking the divers for entering the water too soon. I think someone needs to get real and get rid of synchronized diving! What kind of event is that? Was it too boring just watching one diver at a time? You never see synchronized free throw shooting, or synchronized pitching, synchronized bicycling... why is there a need for synchronized diving and swimming.