My wee little man...er, something like that...
This is what happens when you have babies and they grow up.They start to wear size 12 shoes and think about things beyond GI Joes and Ninja Turtles.
They start talking about cars and girls and boobies and they don't want to hear your "sage advice" about how members of the opposite sex are evil and are to be avoided at all costs.Sheesh. I'm getting old.(And notice the beluga beagle blinking her bulging bulbs...she hates the camera flash.)
Introducing Calliope Creative (pronounced 'kuh-lie-o-pee')
Check this out: www.calliopecreative.com. I've been a VERY busy girl. This is the new Web site (for biz). There are links to current projects and other junk I've been doing (including book and movie reviews!). And for those of you who are new Socks visitors this month, let me know if you were referred by the LPWordSolutions.com newsletter. Did you read the blogging primer? If so, THANK YOU for stopping in. I've added some new material to demonstrate how absolutely easy it is to post your lives on the Internet for the whole world to see. (I suck at doing this on any sort of regular basis, but that doesn't mean you'll suck. For your efforts, I hope you rock and post often, like my girl Janey-O.)And trust me, the world's a'lookin'. Remind me to tell you about the voice from the past that arrived in my inbox this morning at 2:27 a.m. (Hi, Ayla.)Anyhoo, if you are in need of editing or writing services, or if you have friends who are great storytellers and awful spellers/grammarians and they need help, give me a shout. Post a comment on this here bloggy or hit the Web site for more info.Did I mention that I hate daylight savings time? I should go shower. I have work to do.
Action shot!
I love this picture. My men, in action. ALL THE TIME. Umm, do boys ever STOP moving?
Sis and the Poochies ...
Same park, different day, more friends.
Our Canadian Champion Nat, our Beluga Beagle Lila, Miss A, and our dog handler, Yaunna Princess. Yaun kept throwing bait into the water (no, not for fish) for the beagles. Lila, the snarfer, was trying to get at it but she started to sink when she hit the water. Nat is cute, loves water, but he ain't the sharpest crayon in the shed. Er, something like that.
I LOVE water!
Crap. We don't have any spare clothes in the car.Dumb baby.
Sharin' a Buckies with the Momma ...
My kids are all addicted to caffeine. Oh, stop lecturing. It's better than booze.
Kendon (pictured) has a handful of words (he's sorta dumb), and 'coffee' is one of them. He gets all excited when he sees the green Starbucks logo. NOW, in his defense, he
also loves Chapters and Black Bond Books ... you should SEE how fast he can rearrange their shelves!
Q-Bert also knows 'handy' (= candy) and 'NO,' in addition to a bunch of other blabber that we are the parents think is adorable but would probably bore you to tears.
Just as a side note, we are at the "beach" on the Burrard Inlet in Port Moody. This is like 12 minutes from our house...can you
BELIEVE how gorgeous this is? March in B.C.
What snow...?
Hiiiyaa! Judo CHOP!
Daddy squared Bren in the head with a snowball. Good thing he giggled or this coulda been a mess.I grow cute kids, eh?
Does it get any cuter?
March snow. Good for making snowballs. And boogers.
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Did you HEAR about this girl?
She's a cheerleader who was dropped some 15' or so from a collapsing pyramid of fellow cheerleaders, landing on her HEAD. And she's FINE. Cracked vertebra in her neck, a concussion, probably a chipped tooth or two.
HEY -- Steve MOORE (former Colorado Avalanche hockey player, suing Canuck Todd Bertuzzi for a gazillion dollars): This girl ain't suing anyone. And she's SO good, she's still doing the bloody cheer, even with a broken neck.
Can you say Brokeneck Sissyboy?
Yeah, that's what I thought. Go home. No one likes you here. :P
Would someone PLEASE bathe me???
Pretty bad when my kids crawl
into the bathtub fully clothed. I think he's trying to tell me something.
(And just for the record: that crap on the edge of the tub? That's not dirt. It's the remnants of the porcelain coating that came off when they replaced the tile and took out the circa-1970s sliding glass shower doors. I'm a slob, but it's not THAT bad!)
I just wanted to clarify that.
This is what 39 looks like ...
...when it's been lit on fire, burned for a bit, and suppressed by the germy-filled breath of revelers.
Happy Birthday, Husband. Enjoy the last year of your third decade.
He, he, he ... Birthdays are coooool ...
Even if my mom is making me wear this dorky hat while we sit in the car and wait for my dad to come out for lunch so we can surprise him for his birfday and there's all these movie construction dudes walking past the car laughin' at me ... sheesh. Bein' 4 ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Okay, so I guess it's okay ... I'm cute ...
Damn! Woman, what's that on my head?
