ICE CREAM!!!

I got some ice cream
I got some ice cream
And you don't have none
Wanna lick?
Psych!

First ever visit to the Ice Cream Truck

Straight from nap, still in jammies (Spiderman popsicle, naturally)

Dolls are for Boys

I have but one regret about having a son: no dolls. But I figured a way around it.

A lovely soul posted some plain boy paperdoll and costume line drawings on Fickr for download. I replaced the drawn heads with photos of Davey & Dash in Photoshop. Then I printed everything onto card stock and stuck it to adhesive magnet paper.

The idea was for the boys to color everything in, but Aunty Nic figured out right quick that they would just fuck everything up, so she took over the coloring. I turned away for a minute and Dash did indeed draw black lines through every single magnet. Here they were while still pristine:

Harry Potter

Pirate & Rocker

The wallet chain kills me.

Everything went into these paper bags, personalized with custom "D" stickers I made in Photoshop
(because if it's not worth overdoing then why bother?).

Slime

Dash usually gets to pick a book to buy on our trips to Target. He gets enormous pleasure from avoiding the actual books I try to steer him toward and choosing instead those weird paperback picture books based on tv shows or movies. The most recent was based on Monsters vs. Aliens, a movie of which I was vaguely aware, but apparently he knew all about.

Anyway, one of the characters in the book/movie is a slime creature and he was entranced but kinda struggling to understand ("it's sort of like see-through gum!" I explained, unhelpfully.) So I set out to make slime.


First thing you should know if you're contemplating trying this with a three-year-old is: have a glass of wine first. It's going to make a huge mess and you're not really going to know how to dispose of it and they're going to be over it after about three minutes. But if you've had enough wine it'll all seem pretty hilarious.






How to make Slime:

Materials
	Two mixing bowls
	Measuring cups and spoons
	White glue
	Borax
	Food coloring
	Water

1. Mix together 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup white glue and several drops of food coloring in the first bowl.

2. In the second bowl, mix together 1 teaspoons borax and 2 cups water.

3. Pour the contents of the first bowl into the second, and stir. If you knead it it'll become more like Silly Putty.

4. If you want to save it, keep it in a zip-top bag.

Boys

So. You're six months pregnant and it's time to learn the sex. You want to make a big production so you have the doctor write it all down and seal it in an envelope. You open said envelope nine hours later at a restaurant with your very closest friends as witnesses.

"Boy."

You look over at your husband and you realize that you have never seen him happier. Not on your wedding day. Not on the day you tell him he's going to be a daddy. Never.

Here's why:

Speechless

I cannot even describe how happy I am that my husband (who had eyelid surgery--don't ask--and needed to protect his coworkers from looking at his swollen, bruised eye all day) opted for the black pirate eye patch! I'm going to buy him a parrot at lunch.

Not Tired!

Angry that I had gone to the store without him, indignant that Josh was insisting he needed a nap, he refused to lie down in bed or on the couch for some quiet time--though he was obviously too exhausted to carry on. So he curled up on the ottoman out of spite.

Starting Seeds

Last year I was determined to grow something--anything--in the horrible patch of clay we call a yard. I amended the soil as well as I could and then just sorta hucked some radish seeds at a bare spot and stood back. I did actually get some radishes, but they were kinda measly and woody and not really worth talking about.

So this year I've decided to stop fucking around. I have recruited Josh to build me some raised beds so I can just put some good organic soil down and ignore the crappy dirt-hand we've been dealt. I started the seeds this weekend.

I emptied a couple of egg cartons and filled them with good soil and seeds for two types of tomatoes, cucumbers and peas. I also have carrot seeds ("it'll never come up!"), but I guess those need to start in the ground. I'm seriously counting on making gazpacho from my very own tomatoes this year, so wish me luck, won't you?