Did ya'll watch the parade? I loved the float where they did the Rick-Roll.
That was funny.
I never watch the parade, and I found out about it on the CB here. I had never heard of RRing! I was really weirded out that I hadn't heard about it, too, b/c I like to think I'm up on all things internet.
When I saw it on
youtube, the look in his eyes told me that they totally did it on purpose, and knew it was a good joke. Loved that.
OMG! I wish I could have been there!!!! Cost Plus is giving out free monkey ornaments tomorrow, I got all excited when I saw the ad and my mom just shook her head like I have completely lost it. Nice to see others appreciating monkeys!
My son is loving monkeys right now, too! Specific monkeys. His height chart is one that sticks on the wall or a bookcase, and right now he's at the lion, which annoys him b/c lions eat meat and he doesn't. Though I'm quite sure that SOME monkeys eat meat, he figures they don't, so he wants to be at a monkey. Also, being at the next monkey means that he'd be around 47", which sounds like fun to him (though that would mean Indy, woudln't it? ack!).
Thanks for sharing your story Molly. I am also curious at Eamon's diet. I have severe allergies to foods when I was little, and often wonder if I'm missing anything with my children.
Lots of folks have told me this. I'm trying not to worry much, my boys seem very bright and happy to me. There was some research done on young boys that come from long lines of
engineers, scientists, doctors, etc. The research is trying to prove that there is a correlation to these boys with more analytical minds and late speech. The theory goes that they are so busy analyzing everything and figuring out how things work, that they forget to learn to talk. They call it the 'Einstein Effect'. Being analytically minded, I find that kind of stuff interesting.
Eamon can't have anything related to corn syrup. No Uncrustables, no Dole Whips, very few ice creams, no mainstream chocolate sauces, no reddi whip type things...you can see why our trips to
Disneyland involve so few snacks.
We figured this out when he was...just beyond 3 years old when he attacked me not 20 minutes after having a DumDum lollipop. Disneyland with all of its foods has helped, though that sure hasn't been a pleasant learning experience! The other day he said to me, very seriously, that I needed to make SURE that I didn't feed him anything with "high fruit corn syrup" (high fructose corn syrup...by that he means anything related to it and of course HFCS itself) while we were at Disneyland, because he didn't want to get angry.
Looking at the bold in your other paragraph...my brother was indeed graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from Duke! OK so that's not an engineer really, but it's the same methodical thinking. Kid got straight As through high school, with the exception of a B in WoodShop which only happened b/c his best friend SAT on his final project before it was graded. Last 3 years of high school he was in countless AP classes and started Duke nearly a semester ahead b/c of the credits he earned with the AP tests. Was in AF ROTC there, and his training and knowledge and luck put him on a path that involved high security clearance and really unique knowledge and experiences. When he was done with his 4 years he had many private sector offers, and took one with Cisco in a department of something like 5 in the entire company with the clearance, experience, and brains to do what he does.
If it takes not talking for a couple/few years to get one of those, I'm cool with it, LOL.
Your wedding pictures are BEAUTIFUL, by the way. I like how you did your veil; I tried to do mine the same way but it was really wide and didn't "pleat" like that, so didn't fall just like that...then again it was chiffon with designs on it and wasn't as veil-like as yours either!
...drama with one of my nieces (she brought her boyfriend -- which was big surprise because last we heard she was a lesbian).
Oh I hate when that happens.
My cousin did the same thing; I understand that some people have changing tastes (as opposed to people who have only one preference, like my BIL who has only ever really liked dudes), but can't they be a bit more talkative while those tastes are changing? Must we be surprised?
I love the new siggie emblems some of you ladies have.
How can I get one?
The badge-looking ticker? Click on 'em and they take you to the website to make them! They are my fave ticker ever, I think.
All of my kids had huge language development explosions after visiting DLR as young toddlers. I say you're on to something there.
You know, that's a good point.
The Blue's Clues effect had already taken place, but then we were at a still point. We moved, then had our second trip to San Diego, during which we had our second one-day Disneyland trip.
Then hubby was called back from CA to be with his father, who was hospitalized until he died the day after Thanksgiving that year. DS was pretty quiet that whole time, not totally understanding everything but doing his best. He would have been 2.5 years (on the day grandpa died) old.
He didn't talk about the trip when we got back, since we were consumed with visits and trying to get the nurses to figure out that I was indeed on "the list" of people to talk to etc etc.
Then in Jan or Feb, after FIL's Buddhist ceremony (done a certain number of days after death), and things got back to normal, without us spending every other day with MIL etc, he suddenly started TALKING. About everything, but especially the DIsneyland trip! He remembered stuff we hadn't, and talked about stuff we hadn't talked about. We rarely talked about it, since we were so busy. And I still am not up to that point in picture-printing, LOL. He remembered, and finally his brain realized he had the words, and BOOM another explosion of words.
We have always been very unconventional with Christmas. We have never taught our kids to believe in Santa Claus (other than the accurate, historical story of St. Nicholas). We didn't want to confuse our kids about the reason for the holiday which we believe is to celebrate the birth of Christ.
I realize this may rub people the wrong way, but this is kind of my "soap box" currently.
We're not Christian, but I'm with you on this. I never understood the Santa thing (nor was I taught it as anything but a fun myth) and how it went along with everything. And the further into realizing that I'm just not Christian, the further away from Santa I get (which sounds confusing, but since so many do put them together, we kind of have to move away from S as we move away from the 25th... Eamon likes the idea of Santa being there for Yule, but we have to do more thinking on that). We do open a few things on the 25th, if our Christian family and friends send Eamon presents, but we open our gifts to each other on Yule, without doing Santa as anything more than a fun thing that some people do.
We still have to figure out our traditions; right now it's more getting AWAY from things that don't mean anything, but we don't want to do that for much longer, we want to find things that DO have meaning, b/c we're starting to confuse Eamon.
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I'm excited to do it! 
Does anyone know if she is still planning on attending the trip at all? 
Can't hurt! 
