Monday, June 23, 2008
Future Top Chef
Overheard
EMMA: Dad, when I was walking up the stairs I had a heart attack.
ME: That is distressing news. Do you need to go the hospital?
EMMA: No.
ME: It's pretty unusual for a 4-year old girl to have a heart attack. How do you know you had a heart attack?
EMMA (breathing heavily with her hand on her chest): I just do.
ME: Do you have hypochondriac's disease?
EMMA: I don't even know what that is.
UPDATE: In addition to a failing heart, Emma's knees have been giving out at unfortunate times and in unfortunate places. So for the last few days she has been carrying a cane, or a stick that works like a cane. It's all very sad.
Look what happens when she lets go of her cane. Very dramatic.
ME: That is distressing news. Do you need to go the hospital?
EMMA: No.
ME: It's pretty unusual for a 4-year old girl to have a heart attack. How do you know you had a heart attack?
EMMA (breathing heavily with her hand on her chest): I just do.
ME: Do you have hypochondriac's disease?
EMMA: I don't even know what that is.
UPDATE: In addition to a failing heart, Emma's knees have been giving out at unfortunate times and in unfortunate places. So for the last few days she has been carrying a cane, or a stick that works like a cane. It's all very sad.
See the pain that she's in?
Look what happens when she lets go of her cane. Very dramatic.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Overheard
EMMA: Sometimes when you ask a question to a cheerleader they say "whatever" except they say it like "what-EV-er!"
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
This is a story about dancing.
We took the kids to the movies on Saturday afternoon to see Kung Fu Panda. It was totally hilarious until the electricity went out.
So I took the older kids back to the movies on Monday night to try our luck again. (Sophie said she had already seen enough thank you very much.) We went to a different theater in the same chain so our rain checks would work. The first theater, the one with the faulty electricity, is brand new, with nice comfy seats. The place we went to on Monday night is old skool and sticky, with blinking video games in the lobby, stained seats in the theaters, and long aisles that run inexplicably down the middle of each theater where the best seats should be. We traded cleanliness for working electricity.
We were the second family to arrive in the theater. Andrew led us halfway down the aisle and chose our seats. He grabbed a seat on the aisle as close to the middle as he could get, and the rest of us filed past him into the row. While we listened to the commercials during the "pre-movie sit" (the screen was blue; there was nothing to watch), several other families came into the theater and took seats behind us.
The lights dimmed and the show started.
We had already seen all of the previews and the first half of the movie, so when the preview started for Madagascar 2, Andrew knew what was coming. It was almost like he had planned for it.
If you saw Madagascar 1, you had the "Move it move it" song unpleasantly and permanently seared into your brain. Well, this song figures prominently in the preview for Madagascar 2. The preview begins with a loud thumping, and the animals are shown tapping their feet and bouncing their backsides in time to the music. Then you see the zebra and he says, "We like to MOVE IT MOVE IT." Then you see the lion and he says, "We like to MOVE IT MOVE IT." Then comes the crescendo, and all the animals say together, "We like to... MOVE IT!"
It was on that last line when I looked over and knew something was up. When the animals got to the pause between "like to" and "move it", Andrew shot his arms into the air and yelled, in unison with the animals, "MOVE IT!"
And then he was in the aisle. Dancing.
And when I say dancing, that doesn't really convey what happened. He was a 13 BMI blur of arms, legs and head, moving like Napoleon Dynamite doing an 80s robot, except sped up to an unnatural speed and with lots of hopping. I don't think any of our fellow theater goers complained about the high price of their tickets that night; they got a show they will not soon forget.
When Ethan first saw Andrew wiggling in the aisle, he had a look on his face that said "WHAT. is. he. DOING?" And then he started to giggle. I have to admit my initial reaction was the same. Then I started to laugh. And then I thought, now THAT is a confident young man.
The funny thing is, later in the movie when Kung Fu Panda embarrasses himself, Andrew ducked down between the seats saying "It's too embarrassing! I can't watch this part!"
So I took the older kids back to the movies on Monday night to try our luck again. (Sophie said she had already seen enough thank you very much.) We went to a different theater in the same chain so our rain checks would work. The first theater, the one with the faulty electricity, is brand new, with nice comfy seats. The place we went to on Monday night is old skool and sticky, with blinking video games in the lobby, stained seats in the theaters, and long aisles that run inexplicably down the middle of each theater where the best seats should be. We traded cleanliness for working electricity.
We were the second family to arrive in the theater. Andrew led us halfway down the aisle and chose our seats. He grabbed a seat on the aisle as close to the middle as he could get, and the rest of us filed past him into the row. While we listened to the commercials during the "pre-movie sit" (the screen was blue; there was nothing to watch), several other families came into the theater and took seats behind us.
The lights dimmed and the show started.
We had already seen all of the previews and the first half of the movie, so when the preview started for Madagascar 2, Andrew knew what was coming. It was almost like he had planned for it.
If you saw Madagascar 1, you had the "Move it move it" song unpleasantly and permanently seared into your brain. Well, this song figures prominently in the preview for Madagascar 2. The preview begins with a loud thumping, and the animals are shown tapping their feet and bouncing their backsides in time to the music. Then you see the zebra and he says, "We like to MOVE IT MOVE IT." Then you see the lion and he says, "We like to MOVE IT MOVE IT." Then comes the crescendo, and all the animals say together, "We like to... MOVE IT!"
It was on that last line when I looked over and knew something was up. When the animals got to the pause between "like to" and "move it", Andrew shot his arms into the air and yelled, in unison with the animals, "MOVE IT!"
And then he was in the aisle. Dancing.
And when I say dancing, that doesn't really convey what happened. He was a 13 BMI blur of arms, legs and head, moving like Napoleon Dynamite doing an 80s robot, except sped up to an unnatural speed and with lots of hopping. I don't think any of our fellow theater goers complained about the high price of their tickets that night; they got a show they will not soon forget.
When Ethan first saw Andrew wiggling in the aisle, he had a look on his face that said "WHAT. is. he. DOING?" And then he started to giggle. I have to admit my initial reaction was the same. Then I started to laugh. And then I thought, now THAT is a confident young man.
The funny thing is, later in the movie when Kung Fu Panda embarrasses himself, Andrew ducked down between the seats saying "It's too embarrassing! I can't watch this part!"
Friday, June 06, 2008
Apocalypse
Photos don't do it justice. But the crazy storm tonight made everything yellow--the sky, the road, the houses. Even the inside of our house was filled with bright yellow light. Everything looked weird, kind of like there was a solar eclipse. What crazy weather.
We've had too many of these already this year
From the National Weather Service today:
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN MARION...EASTERN BOONE... HAMILTON...MADISON...TIPTON AND HOWARD COUNTIES...
AT 718 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF GREENTOWN TO WILLIAMS CREEK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRISSOM AFB TO 9 MILES NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE ACROSS THE AREA. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
Come on by! We're celebrating by watching a movie in the basement and eating homemade peach ice cream.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Sophie is like President Bush
She likes to have a nickname for everyone in her entourage.
Andrew = Dadoo
Ethan = Bubble
Emma = Oommmuh (with the emphasis on the "mmm")
(Ethan is too hard to say, so we told her to call him Bobo--his nickname when he was a baby. Much to Ethan's dismay, she quickly started calling him "Bubble" because that is a word she was already familiar with.)
Another funny thing about Sophie: Like her cousin, she is bilingual, although Sophie's chosen language is French. She walks around the house all day saying "Où Mommy go? Où Bubble go? Où Dadoo go?" (Even if Mommy, Bubble and Dadoo are right in front of her.)
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