Pilgrim's Unprogress

Michael brought this home two years ago when he was in 2nd grade. I can't save most of what the kids bring home (unless we rent space at Public Storage) but this just might be displayed at his high school graduation party.

If you find it hard to read, it says "Our class learned about the Mayflower. I learned that people died. The most interesting part was someone went overboard. I think it was not fun at all."

Michael D.

Tina, eat!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving and all the good eats we look forward to, here's one of my favorite Napoleon Dynamite clips.

changed my comments setting

Nate pointed out that it seemed only google-ers could comment, so I switched the setting.

Vanilla ice cream is gross! Country music is for losers! Idaho sucks! C'mon, I dare ya.

This result is a bit high. I think the likelihood my cat will murder me is more in the 20-30% range, but maybe I'm duped. Relaxing on the couch, I captured Bruiser lost in thought ...it never occurred to me that he could be contemplating homicide.

Halloween '08

Last week before carving pumpkins Michael asked "Can we use latex gloves so we don't get that stuff all over our hands?" Heh. I think he has a thing for rubber gloves - last year he snuck a pair to school and wore them in class. We found out about it in conferences. He wrote all over them with marker and when the teacher asked him to take them off, he said "But I like them." Finally she threw them away, which Michael later described in his social skills journal as a time when he was disappointed in his teacher.

Back to Halloween - we had a genuine scare when we lost Nicky while trick-or-treating. We went with the neighbors and their 5 kids and together they all ran to and fro a bit too quickly for our eyes to track. Luckily we hadn't yet turned any corners and we found Nicky heading straight down the street towards home.

As you can see in the pictures, we have Adrienne as a princess (3rd year in a row), Zach the tiger, Nicky as Anakin Skywalker, and doctor Michael.