just 'cuz

Best e*trade baby commercial yet -



In other kid-related news - yesterday after the bus ride home, Nicky said he saw a dead kangaroo hanging in someone's garage. I told him it was a deer. My dad does that with dead deer. And my folks' house is on Main Street. Growing up, I heard a comment or two about those poor (usually headless) creatures dangling pitiably in our garage for all Waconia to see.

Christ the King Sunday

Oldie but goodie.

weird November

Yeah, we got some white stuff on the ground.  The first snow is usually a wimpy 1/2 inch or thereabouts, so we had to scramble to find snow gear for everybody on Saturday.  I guess it's prettier to look at than dead brown earth.  It almost legitimizes the Christmas music our silly lite FM radio station is playing already.  Almost, but not quite.  Wait till after Thanksgiving, you goofs.  And keep playing it for at least a week after Christmas Day.  It's also the height of stupidity when mall decorations go up as early as October and come down the second Christmas actually arrives.  Anyway, I digress.  The first big snow calls for pictures of the kids frolicking merrily. 

Mmm, hot chocolate.  Hello comfort food season.

My Dad is Red Green

Not the one on TV - a real life one.  He chopped up my poor old childhood swingset and manufactured a deer stand out of it.  He somehow busted his thumb getting down from one last weekend (dunno if it was this handsome one).  At least he went to the doctor instead of fashioning a duct tape cast.

  photo courtesy of little brother Chris

Halloween 2010

 While trick-or-treating at one house, Zach thought the lady didn't put any candy in his pumpkin bucket.  The other kids ran away and he stood there indignantly waiting for his fair share well after she shut her door and walked away.

 

 Michael in particular is in a happy candy trance...

Bring on Standard Time already.  I'm tired of all this getting up when it's pitch black and seeing lovely sunrises.