Sometime today, Ava has a recital with her music teacher at school. The kids can choose to do pretty much anything they want, it sounds like, so long as it involves music. Ava, bless her sweet little heart, has decided to do an interpretive dance to Missing Persons’ “Walking In L.A.” Really. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Entertainment'
The performer
March 12th, 2010 · View Comments
Tags: Ava · Entertainment · Music
Speaking of the Oscars
March 8th, 2010 · View Comments
There has been a request to post this video here so it’s viewable by a wider audience. Let it never be said I’m not responsive to my public.
Tags: Baby · Emmett · Entertainment · Movies · video
ECP’s first steps
March 3rd, 2010 · View Comments
Let’s face it: The kid owes me something for my having stayed home with him all this week while he gets over his feverish coughing sickness.
Tags: Baby · Emmett · Entertainment · Movies
Stop the Charmin bears
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments
Listen, we’re friends, OK? And if you like the Charmin ads featuring the adorable bears running around, picking clingy pieces of TP off each others’ asses, that’s fine. Just don’t tell me about it. I don’t want to know. I don’t want that information to color our relationship. Let’s just [...]
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Vote Sharlto
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments
If you haven't seen District 9 (I liked it better than The Hurt Locker), you're missing out on one of the best acting performances of the last couple years. The lead, Sharlto Copley, provides an incredibly plausible and forceful portrayal of a man turning into an insectoid alien. If there's an emotion he doesn't convey [...]
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Man, I feel like a woman
February 1st, 2010 · View Comments
Leah pointed out upon viewing this video in camera last night that I sound like her in it. Oh well. It is what it is. And now, for your viewing pleasure:
Tags: Emmett · Entertainment · Movies
Unicorn chaser
January 28th, 2010 · View Comments
Enough of this hand wringing over the dispensation of one’s filthy lucre. On to more important, relevant matters….
Tags: Entertainment · Music
Free skate, everybody skates
January 18th, 2010 · View Comments
Today we took Ava out for her first ice skating adventure. I was astounded by how well she did. This is toward the end of our outing, when she circled the rink twice with almost no help from me at all.
Tags: Ava · Entertainment · Movies
Pants on the ground
January 17th, 2010 · View Comments
I always knew there was something about that Fallon kid that I liked. I’m happy that I can now put my finger on it. If you need a reference for these lyrics/backstory, google “general larry platt.”
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Speaking of activity scenes
January 4th, 2010 · View Comments
This video is fresh out of the camera today. I hope Emmett isn’t one of those kids who walks before he crawls. I hear they have all kinds of problems as a result.
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Tis the season
December 21st, 2009 · View Comments
Gosh, I bet I’m the first person to ever title a blog post this way. Cool!
Weekend before last we went over to a friend’s house so Ava could make a gingerbread house. We had to amscray early to make it back for a play date (for Ava) so didn’t even get a chance [...]
Tags: Ava · Entertainment · Food & Drink
Snow daze
December 10th, 2009 · View Comments
Fresh snow trumps freezing temps. Either that, or Ava has some undiagnosed nerve damage that makes it impossible for her to feel cold. Oh well. So long as she’s having fun….
Tags: Ava · Entertainment · Movies · Outdoors
When all else fails
November 4th, 2009 · View Comments
Make popcorn. This is how we always used to make popcorn when I was little, before air poppers and microwaveable bags. Ava and I popped some yesterday and then tucked in to watch Willy Wonka (Wilder Willy Wonka, not Depp Willy Wonka). Actually, Leah and Ava tucked in to watch the movie [...]
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Laughter
October 8th, 2009 · View Comments
OK, so Emmett was clearly caught unawares on the first go here, but it didn’t take him long to come around.
This is our boy.
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Move It! Dig It! Do It!
September 15th, 2009 · View Comments
First, an aside. Why can’t squirrels be more like farm chickens? I mean, you can’t run over a farm chicken if you try, but squirrels just seem to freeze up when a car comes upon them. Anyway, I squished one on the way home from dropping off Ava at school this morning, [...]
Tags: Ava · Entertainment · Outdoors
Summer, encapsulated
September 8th, 2009 · View Comments
I’d be hard put to come up with an image from the last couple months that better describes Ava’s summer. Pigtails, corn dogs, and carnival rides. Oh, and those boots. Always with the boots. This is a shot Gramary took at the Regina Fall Fun Festival over the weekend. Poor [...]
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Moment of cuteness
August 31st, 2009 · View Comments
Ava went downtown with her Gramary over the weekend to partake of the festivities surrounding a sand castle building competition. One such festivity was a free concert, and, well, you just know Ava’s gotta move. Photo by Gramary:
Tags: Ava · Entertainment · Music · Outdoors
I <3 BARNEY
August 19th, 2009 · View Comments
Not a political blog, remember? Frank knocks this out of the park. Can this woman possibly have any friends?
Tags: Entertainment
Pinky promise
June 11th, 2009 · View Comments
Before I left the house this morning, I made Ava pinky promise that she’d give her mom a break today. It’s Leah’s first day home solo with both kids, and I’m sure it’ll be trying.
Tags: Ava · Entertainment
Hope
May 15th, 2009 · View Comments
This is not a political blog.
I’m not talking about that most fragile of all kinds of hope, the kind that you put in a man to end the appalling policies of his predecessor on unlawful detention and torture. I’m talking about that larger hope, that hope that the next generation — and all generations [...]
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