Thursday, February 21, 2008

Horse Poo

Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!


"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post."Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island






Birthdays for February the 21st:
1794 - Antonio L¢pez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36)


Two girls, one wardrobe.





Saturday, February 16, 2008

Gangster Lovin'

Never underestimate the stealthy skills of a 2-year old.
.


Sweet, perfect, and sometime pukey.




Dang, it's still mommy.



In hopes of fulfilling NYC's slogan on Valentine condoms, "Get Some."



The "high" of Valentine's day mixed with toddler crayons.




"I want my yellow dress!"
Name that movie and Jon will write you a song.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

By the way...

Becky had a dream the other night in which an evil baby was trying to attack her, and the only way to stop it was for her to chew the infant's flesh off its face.
Vote Obama!

Friday, February 8, 2008

You little...

We've managed thus far to rear a relatively well-behaved toddler without resorting to corporal punishment. I was hand-spanked occasionally during my formative years, and though I believe I developed into a modestly productive and mentally whole member of society, we're trying to avoid what we both feel is a less-effective method of discipline.
However, as our eldest matures, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find ways to encourage good behavior and create consequences for bad behavior. Just yesterday, after the little darling blatantly ignored her parents' instructions to stay off of mommy's sewing project, she was told to go to time out. Rather than the expected look of remorse and dread we were hoping for, she happily said, "OK!" and scampered over to the time out corner. She waited there for about 5 seconds and then said "Sorry, daddy...I said sorry."
So we're probably going to have to move to minimum time requirements. It could also be an opportunity to teach math. "You got out mommy's make-up. That's 5 minutes time out. You also spit on the kids at the mall. That's 15 minutes of time out. How many minutes is that, Sam?"
Daddy did Sam's hair. With mousse.

Lucy thought it was super-awesome.







It's been a while since we did one of these.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Presidential Prayers

Sam has been taking education courses at the local college and has learned the ideal environment in which to teach a dinosaur to be potty trained.

She has been praying herself to sleep at night in hopes that the Presidential candidates will "stop the bickering."

A blurry version of Sam's ideal man.

You're never too old or too young to use ProActive.