Open House Entertainment

Ever notice that being compelled to blog about your life means that you end up documenting otherwise mundane (and maybe still) events that you would have never even considered taking your camera along to before you had the blog? Yes, me too. Case in point - yesterday's open house. We had to be out of the house for 2.5 hours in the afternoon and just couldn't deal with the trail in 100+ degrees. So, we ventured to the air-conditioned, pet-friendly store we love so much: Petsmart. Andrew loved looking at the fish and - yikes - ripping the price labels off of the displays. Oh, and there was ice cream afterwards, too, at Shakes, where you get free kiddie cones and puppy cups. Yeah - there's your mundane cool documentation of yesterday.

Garage Sale Tale in Ten Words and MegaPixels

Breakfast

Entertainment

Shopping

Lunch

Rain

In

Out

Bored

Hot

Success!

Just Pics

We moved up from 5 to 10 megapixels yesterday and are still experimenting with the new camera. My first digital camera (2001) had 3.1 and I thought THOSE pics were good. Sheesh. Here are some shots from today, and yes, he's attempting to eat paper in the first one. I sweep his mouth at least 3 times a day lately. I suppose paper is better than dog food (another one of his favorites). Fiber.

Two and a Half Men

Here's a video from way back when we had cable... a couple of weeks ago. Jon adores this show and it was on a lot when Andrew first came home with us. From very early on, he would turn toward the TV when the a cappella theme song came on. He STILL loves it and now rushes the TV when he hears it. Jon kept rewinding to the short segue to get him to react in this video. We suppose this is the beginning of dancing.

Bubbles

As per Grandma's request:

Ball!

We love that his BAW-OOL sounds as if this kid already lives in South Carolina (no offense, Jack Lee, Kim, or Glen and family)! Among the other words in his short repertoire are pretty decipherable versions of mama, bath, bubble, and Elmo.

Just a few things I've learned in the last 24 hours:

• Apparently, someone needs to start a thread about being in love with The Office, and more specifically, the character Jim (I, too, have got it bad for Jim).
• Most people who read this blog have been ready to give up cable at some point and will probably need just a few more undesirable cable company experiences before they, too, become hippies like the Burbanks and cancel that garbage.
• A dip in a South Texas backyard baby pool is only refreshing for approximately ten minutes. After that, it's just nasty, grass- and bug-ridden 80 degree bathwater.
• Taking a toddler to the Texas Roadhouse (why is it called that in TEXAS, BTW?) seems fun at first since you don't have to worry about food thrown on the peanut-covered floor. THEN, they bring out the birthday saddle and the perpetual YEEEE-HAHS startle your little one into total oblivion. Relaxing dinner OVER.