Has anyone noticed when we get older we refer to our ages differently?
While we're in utero, our mothers referred to our age in weeks.
While we are babies, our mothers referred to our age in months.
While we are younger we refer to our age in years.
When we get older we just round to the decades, "I'm in my sixties now."
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
November is NaBloPoMo
Fussy has decided to start a blogging revolution if you will. A post a day... for an entire month. What an accomplishment.
I ran to sign up. Just the kick in the butt I needed right? DOH! Then I remembered that I would be gone for a week to no internet-connection-land.
So - I will do my best to rise to the challenge.
But I like wookies. Wookies are bad ass. Not quite Yoda Bad Ass but Bad Ass nonetheless.
Halloween TV
The planets have aligned (sick baby that demanded cuddling, migraine headache and lack of sleep all around) so that I have had to employ the great electronic babysitter to watch Anna yesterday. The almighty TV. Anna perched on the bottom of my new recliner to watch hours and hours of TV yesterday. Ok - I know... bad mommy. Whatever. I tried to read her books, but she doesn't have much patience for that.
I have a lot to say about the parenting on kids shows, it's just kind of hard to tell you after I just admitted that I let my 2 year old watch approximately 3 times the recommended amount of tv (and we all parent by strictly adhering to what the experts say, right???). That's not even really true, because there are actual people, with degrees mind you, that have said zero screen time for kids 2 and under. Yeah - I don't think so. Anna loves her some Dora, HI-5 and Little Einsteins.
I know I'm expected to suspend belief in watching children's programming - but some things just bug me!
So - who the hell lets their 6 year olds out till midnight on Halloween? Dora's parent's - that's who. SERIOUSLY. Mami and Papi Explorer - CPS is coming for you. A monkey is not an appropriate babysitter either, they eat poop. And she didn't even go home at midnight. That little delinquent was just getting the monster party started at midnight.
I can NOT be the only adult watching Handy Manny and not laughing their ass off, right? I know Wilmer Valderrama is involved with the show (well, he IS Handy Manny)-so I don't think I'm just reading too much into it - but there are some interesting word choices. I mean come on - this grown man is just wondering around town with a bunch of "tools" all day. He's constantly using his little tape measurer, "Stretch" to talk about 6 inch peices of wood.
Speaking of children's programming - we are Steve people. On Blue's Clues we have noticed that people are either Joe people or Steve people. I think it has a lot to do with when Blue's Clues was introduced into your house. Anna shocked us all the other day when she incorrectly called Steve, "Joe". Uh uh , she didn't!!!! I made sure to clear that up for her lickety split. We watched 2 episodes in a row with Steve just to make sure she got the point.
Ok - one last note - in the Halloween Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode, Mickey and gang needed to get to Pete's party by the full moon, they start out with a crescent moon. I'd like to know who gets dressed up for Halloween and spends almost a lunar month traveling to a party.
I have a lot to say about the parenting on kids shows, it's just kind of hard to tell you after I just admitted that I let my 2 year old watch approximately 3 times the recommended amount of tv (and we all parent by strictly adhering to what the experts say, right???). That's not even really true, because there are actual people, with degrees mind you, that have said zero screen time for kids 2 and under. Yeah - I don't think so. Anna loves her some Dora, HI-5 and Little Einsteins.
I know I'm expected to suspend belief in watching children's programming - but some things just bug me!
So - who the hell lets their 6 year olds out till midnight on Halloween? Dora's parent's - that's who. SERIOUSLY. Mami and Papi Explorer - CPS is coming for you. A monkey is not an appropriate babysitter either, they eat poop. And she didn't even go home at midnight. That little delinquent was just getting the monster party started at midnight.
I can NOT be the only adult watching Handy Manny and not laughing their ass off, right? I know Wilmer Valderrama is involved with the show (well, he IS Handy Manny)-so I don't think I'm just reading too much into it - but there are some interesting word choices. I mean come on - this grown man is just wondering around town with a bunch of "tools" all day. He's constantly using his little tape measurer, "Stretch" to talk about 6 inch peices of wood.
Speaking of children's programming - we are Steve people. On Blue's Clues we have noticed that people are either Joe people or Steve people. I think it has a lot to do with when Blue's Clues was introduced into your house. Anna shocked us all the other day when she incorrectly called Steve, "Joe". Uh uh , she didn't!!!! I made sure to clear that up for her lickety split. We watched 2 episodes in a row with Steve just to make sure she got the point.
Ok - one last note - in the Halloween Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode, Mickey and gang needed to get to Pete's party by the full moon, they start out with a crescent moon. I'd like to know who gets dressed up for Halloween and spends almost a lunar month traveling to a party.
Happy Halloweiner!
My mom used to send out these cards for holidays, birthday's etc... that weren't funny - but PUNNY. Like "If you are happy and you know it" on the outside and then on the inside of the card "clamp your hams" (and a picture of a ham with a clamp on it.
Punny, right?
Well - the classic was the Halloween card with the Daschund dressed as a vampire on the front with the punch line... "Happy Hallo-weiner." For the better part of 10 years this card has been exchanged (new one each year- we're not organized enough to recycle the old one again and again) each Halloween.
So - to all of you today.... Happy Hallo-weiner
Punny, right?
Well - the classic was the Halloween card with the Daschund dressed as a vampire on the front with the punch line... "Happy Hallo-weiner." For the better part of 10 years this card has been exchanged (new one each year- we're not organized enough to recycle the old one again and again) each Halloween.
So - to all of you today.... Happy Hallo-weiner
Monday, October 30, 2006
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown....
Anna has finally mastered her first putdown. She has been calling Julia a "blockhead" all day. I have tried not to laugh as I explain to her that mean words aren't nice and we don't use them... but it's pretty funny.
Imagine this little girl yelling at her bossy older sister, "No, Julia, I don't want to. You blockhead!"
Lucy would be proud. I'm glad we won't be watching this movie again until next year.
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