These are all from this weekend:
"Stop making chicken noises and put your pants back on."
"I do not know if unicorns go pooty-poot."
"That's Don Zimmer. You looked like that when you were born."
"You've probably put six dollars' worth of grape jelly in your hair this year."
"Careful with Mary or you'll drop her behind the piano and she'll have to have the baby Jesus back there like she did last year."
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
SORTING OUT THE SANTA THING (PART 1 OF MANY, WE SUSPECT)
Noodle: "What if I have to go potty while Santa's here?"
Me: "You just go straight to the bathroom same as always. But no peeking down the hallway."
Noodle: "But what if Santa has to go potty?"
Me: "He always makes sure he goes potty before he leaves the North Pole."
Noodle: "What if the reindeer have to go potty?"
Me: "They wait until they're flying over the ocean so they probably won't hit anything."
(Yeah, YOU try coming up with a better answer in a snap in that kind of situation.)
Me: "You just go straight to the bathroom same as always. But no peeking down the hallway."
Noodle: "But what if Santa has to go potty?"
Me: "He always makes sure he goes potty before he leaves the North Pole."
Noodle: "What if the reindeer have to go potty?"
Me: "They wait until they're flying over the ocean so they probably won't hit anything."
(Yeah, YOU try coming up with a better answer in a snap in that kind of situation.)
Thursday, November 12, 2009
FUNDRAISING TIME (NO, NOT FOR ME)
...it's for the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. My colleagues from WHUD are down there today and tomorrow for the annual radiothon benefitting the hospital.
Noodle did have a brush with a tough situation a few years back, with a condition that presents almost exactly like leukemia - which wasn't (can we get an "amen"?), but which was still plenty nasty and required more long hospital trips, tubes and needle-pokes than any little one should have to handle. She was dealt a lousy hand, but by no means the worst. So far there's been no need for her for a facility as advanced as MFCH, but one scary experience is more than enough to get this particular dad the rest of his life worrying about the what-ifs. There are far more harrowing stories involving kids from all over the Hudson Valley - thankfully, a great many of them have ended happily, and you've been hearing some of them on WHUD.
Having that hospital there in Westchester means sick kids in the Hudson Valley and their families don't have to add to their worries trying to negotiate New York City. MFCH doesn't even look much like a hospital...
Which is a highly reassuring first impression, both for parents and kids.
At any rate, the station is down there until Friday afternoon, the number to call to pledge is 1-888-499-KIDS, and here's the link to donate.
Noodle did have a brush with a tough situation a few years back, with a condition that presents almost exactly like leukemia - which wasn't (can we get an "amen"?), but which was still plenty nasty and required more long hospital trips, tubes and needle-pokes than any little one should have to handle. She was dealt a lousy hand, but by no means the worst. So far there's been no need for her for a facility as advanced as MFCH, but one scary experience is more than enough to get this particular dad the rest of his life worrying about the what-ifs. There are far more harrowing stories involving kids from all over the Hudson Valley - thankfully, a great many of them have ended happily, and you've been hearing some of them on WHUD.
Having that hospital there in Westchester means sick kids in the Hudson Valley and their families don't have to add to their worries trying to negotiate New York City. MFCH doesn't even look much like a hospital...
Which is a highly reassuring first impression, both for parents and kids.
At any rate, the station is down there until Friday afternoon, the number to call to pledge is 1-888-499-KIDS, and here's the link to donate.
Monday, November 2, 2009
AND INCIDENTALLY
...the one October post here in which I vowed to post more often was about the very last thing I did before Ye Olde Laptop went Brad Lidge on me and needed a full Windows re-install. Which is done, but now it's the secondary machine in the house...and blogging will proceed once the new computer's fully set up.
CHICKEN SNAILS!
Her Awesomeness busted this one out while yours truly was rolling around in the annual Epic Huge Pile of Leaves with the now-4-year-old Beast. Oh yes, there was very much of the OM NOM NOM NOM at the dinner table last night. (hat tip: Clumsy Wife, Careless Mom)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
RIP VAN WINKLE AWAKES
(insert rote haven't-posted-in-ages grovel here)
Behold...the d20! And a board game that goes one heck of a lot faster, not to mention helps teaching the smaller one his two-digit numbers.
The light bulb actually did go on over my head for once, while playing a board game with Noodle and Beast that was initially enjoyable but proving to be a hair too long for their wee attention spans, not to mention Dad's. Interruptions because of a die flying under the kitchen table or the baseboard heater were common. And then from the distant mists of my socially-awkward past...
Behold...the d20! And a board game that goes one heck of a lot faster, not to mention helps teaching the smaller one his two-digit numbers.
Monday, July 27, 2009
PRESENTING MR. J'S HOUSEHOLD TIPS
Tip Number One:
When making the bed, do not be overly enthusiastic about getting the top sheet some air while the ceiling fan is running.
First in a recurring series!
When making the bed, do not be overly enthusiastic about getting the top sheet some air while the ceiling fan is running.
First in a recurring series!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
PHIL, YOU NUT
Busy times at the house...we're about to try something new for our semi-staycation: camping out.
Not full-blown Bear Grylls stuff, certainly not. We've got a cabin for starters, and if that works out for Noodle and Beast we'll try something more rustic in the future. Her Awesomeness has been camp-supply hunting all week, and me? I've been watching stuff like this:
It's assuring to know there are places where it's not raining.
Not full-blown Bear Grylls stuff, certainly not. We've got a cabin for starters, and if that works out for Noodle and Beast we'll try something more rustic in the future. Her Awesomeness has been camp-supply hunting all week, and me? I've been watching stuff like this:
It's assuring to know there are places where it's not raining.
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