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Creepy Crawly
This one-eyed, eight-legged, winged Trio creature is all mine, thanks to Atticus and his store. All you have to do is pick something out and hand him some imaginary money…voila! Imagination…It’s a wonderful thing!
La Música de Mariachi
We joined my parents for dinner at El Vallarta tonight, not knowing a mariachi band would be playing. Those guys are amazing! Great voices all around, and we heard them do everything from Freddie Fender (for my dad) to the Beatles to “Rocky Top.” Awesome night!!
Sooooo…..hoy, dos cuadros para el precio de uno…
Lucas and my dad tipping:
Atticus playing his own horn:
p.s. I recorded one of the songs they played. I’ll try to get it posted this weekend.
UPDATE: Here’s the audio of one of their songs; I’m not sure of the name. When they asked us which song to play, we told them to play their favorite song. This was it.
[audio:2011-03-21-mariachi-fave.mp3|loop=no]WE MISSY OU!
Nothing will ever be the same. It’s just the way it goes.
How long before you take down the MISSY OU sign? The Rainbow people gave it a good year, I guess.
I wish I could go back — way back — to fortify and edify what now doesn’t seem to take a rectify.
Hindsight’s 20-20, they say. Well, what if all you’ve got is 20-100, even forward?
Figuratively literal? Literally figurative?
That squishy, mish-mashy, goulash is my heart all around that part that misses you.
High Aspirations
Notice that Lucas doesn’t say he wants to be Spider-man when he grows up. He says he will be.
Dream big, little one, and don’t ever stop.
#miss
71/365: Rango
If we could have bought Rango on the way out of the theater, we probably would’ve. It was that good.
And since our movie outing was Lucas’ extra-special treat for having 10 school days with no bad marks AND Atticus’ first movie ever, it’s a very good thing it was so good. 🙂
Two Cute Quotes
“I wish I was really short and had really long feet, so I could run real fast.”
-Lucas
“Is Heaven in the sky? Yeah, ’cause it’s not down here.”
-Atticus
68/365: Ash Wednesday
65/365: Trio World
When Atticus sets up a bunch of toys and things in a particular order, he calls it a “world.” This picture of tonight’s Trio creation is a good example of it.
Earlier this evening at my parents’ house, he was bringing all kinds of kids’ things into the dining room: puzzles, crayons, a ball-slam toy, Winne-the-Pooh and friends figurines, a metal dump truck. When I told him it was time to go home, he was upset that he wouldn’t be able to finish his world.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to create your own world? What kinds of people, places, objects, colors, textures, and sounds would your world have?
I used a “film grain” Photoshop filter.
Jedi Reading Intro by Atticus
Attie’s been playing a lot of the Star Wars Jedi Reading game on Lucas’ Leapster 2 lately. It’s helping him work on spelling and reading and learn new vocabulary, yes, but it’s also taught him a whole lot about Star Wars.
In the midst of his off-game playing and drawing, you can hear him reciting the instructions and comments from different games. Just now, for example, he came downstairs and sat at the table with me, saying, “We need your help to rescue ships for the Rebel Alliance. Press the ‘home’ button to play another game.”
Yeah, a little weird. And a lot amazing. What a memory!
I took this video of him reciting the introduction to the game this morning. He’d already gone through it a few times when it hit me to record. (Slow on the uptake…too much grading to do.)
When he watched the video, he said, “Fast.” Then he was all giggles. 😀
“It’s a dark time in the galaxy…”