Beach in October

Got back from a fantastic weekend in Cape Cod for Ryan's Grandpa's 80th B-Day Celebration. Wonderful weather, no crowds, no stress. Driving to P-Town was so relaxing, just passing closed hotels and mini-golf places. You might think that would be depressing, but it wasnt at all. Just peaceful. This was my second time at the Cape and I gotta say I like it even more than I did the last time. Everything is at a slower pace, the people are all friendly, the air has the smell of the ocean. It probably helps that it was the off-season both times that we've been down there, but that aside, it was great to get away from work for a long weekend. We even enjoyed the beach, the proof being in this shot of Ryan's youngest cousins making "sand angels".

More from the Peanut Gallery

Another winner comment from my 2 and 3 year old's...

I am doing a song about 5 little bunnies with the puppet glove or "monkey mitt". A puppet glove is a furry glove with velcro on the finger tips where you attack five little puppets and sing a song and stuff. So the song goes a little like this. "Five little bunnies come into to town, into town, into town. Five little bunnies come into town. HOP HOP HOP. One little bunny hid in a bush, hid in a bush, hid in a bush. One little bunny hid in a bush. HOP HOP HOP" I put the little bunny puppets behind me on a table when they hid so the kid's can't see them. Then all the bunnies are gone and I say, "Oh no, where are all the bunnies?" hoping they would say, "Hiding in the bush!" But no, one of my little sweethearts says, "ON THE TABLE!!" It was so cute, I could hardly stop laughing. Everyone was cracking up. Kids are too freaken smart for me!

Storytime for 2's and 3's

HIghlight of my storytime today:

A little boy, who had his own little party dancing a jig and singing in the middle of the room for most of the session, turns to me before he leaves and says, "OK, bye I'll miss you!"

How can you not love that?

On the Trail

I will re-start my blogging career by posting a picture of a totally awsome shirt given to me by the one and only T-Coop.
For those of you who remember the orginal Oregon Trail, this was one of the funniest messages you could get. It just seemed so wasteful to let players kill so much meat and then not be able to use it. You would expect a Native American to come out and yell at you, "This is your freaken problem! You are killing the earth!" But the game never went that route. Everyone knows half the fun of playing that game was the "Hunt for Food" option. Who was going to trade at the boring trading post when you could run around with a gun! And I'm talking the old school version, the black and green screen with the man with the stick for a gun. You would control it with the arrows and shoot with the space bar and kill everything you could. Lucky people killed several bison, unlucky people got stuck with the rabbits. I enjoyed holding two arrow buttons and the spacebar down at the same time and go in a circle shooting out the little green bullets everywhere, hitting trees and stuff. Ah, the good old days. In the new version, it's a first person shooting thing, a la Halo, and you get a laser sight thing and its all in color and the animals look sort of real, as compared to the green shapes in our day. Oh, the kids have it so easy.