Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Hi, yourself
Jean's parents were here this weekend, so I guess The Boy heard us referred to by our first names more often than usual. When Jean went in to get him up from his nap yesterday, he was saying something over and over and she couldn't quite figure out what it was. She finally realized he was saying, "Jean. Jean. Jean." This was confirmed when I walked in to the room and he said, "Hi, Dave."
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Conversation on the way home
(Editor's note: "Baby Person" is a small wooden figure from a train set. It was not consumed.)
The Boy: "Baby Person! Baby Person!" (cough, cough)
Me: "Are you okay?"
The Boy: "Yeah."
Me: "Did you eat Baby Person?"
The Boy: "Yeah."
Me: "Really?!"
The Boy: "Yeah."
Me: "REALLY?!"
The Boy: "I like it!"
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Here's a long way of saying, "Times sure have changed."
When I was around 10, Revell came out with a model Goodyear blimp that was advertised on TV and sold through Goodyear stores. The coolest thing about it was you could create your own messages to be displayed on the blimp's screen. I was very, very excited. When I got the blimp for my birthday, I was disappointed to find that you created the messages not with some cool keyboard or electronic interface, but by filling in dots on specially-sized paper with a magic marker. I think I also expected to be able to fly it around the room, and that didn't happen either.
I was thinking about the blimp model because, 30+ years ago, it was about the coolest thing I could imagine. Just now I bought an iPhone app for $1.99 that is advertised as an alarm clock, but also allows you the ability to play radio feeds from 14,000 radio stations from around the world, just as a bonus.
That's the world my son is going to grow up in. I might still buy him the blimp, though. I found one on eBay for 40 bucks.
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