In reference to friends' post on babyproofing and books...

We have MANY books. We LOVE books. Brian and I both *heart* reading. (Whoa, that was a bit cheesy). We have at least 6 bookshelves stocked with books. Many of our favorites are science-fiction and fantasy novels, but we have some non-fiction tomes thrown in for flavor.

Tam currently is into books, especially if they are about cars or are lift-the-flaps. He is VERY into car magazines. He will actually sit still in one of our laps and patiently turn through a book if it is about trucks.

We are not worried about him not having reading material... and, as of yet, we are not worried about him ripping up the "grown-up" books. He has not pulled our books off any of the shelves, even the ones within his reach. This may be because we keep certain shelves and buckets just for his books and he readily knows where these are in the various rooms of the house.

Knowledge is power = encourage reading!

I'm so putting this on one of Tam's t-shirts!

Dang-it, our school needs a marching band

Percussion group is going fabulously this term. Even though we have fewer students, we are still having a ton of fun. We were lamenting this week that Aquinas doesn't have a marching band (or a football team!). I am all for starting one to play the half time show (?) during our lacrosse games!

Marching band was such a hoot both in High school and College. Who can forget those sexy uniforms, running over the flutes, carrying that big bass drum, making lots of noise, running over the flagline, cheering on our football team, making cool patterns out in the field, early practices, late practices, running over the majorettes and their big hair, bus rides, and AWESOME MUSICAL EXPERIENCES.

Go band.

Microbiology test this week :-)

Sigh...how true...

A little "bones" humor

Monday Humor at Disney's expense

No wonder I'm not a princess!

Laugh until you pee...

Clean jokes from the baby board I puruse...

1) A man and his wife were driving down the road and not talkign to eachother much at all as they had just had a fight. They drive past a farm and out in the pen are a bunch of pigs. The husband, being snarky, gestures out the window and he says "Those some of your family members?". The wife doesn't skip a beat and syas "Yup, In-Laws"

2) Husband: How about a little sex tonight?

Wife: NO, I have a headache.

Husband: Final answer?

Wife: Yes, final answer

Husband: I'd like to phone a friend.

3) A young brunette goes into the doctor's office and says that her body hurts wherever she touches it."Impossible," says the doctor. "Show me."She takes her finger and pushes her elbow and screams in agony. She pushes her knee and screams, pushes her ankle and screams and so it goes on. The doctor says, "You're not really a brunette are you? She says "No, I'm really a blonde".

"I thought so," he says."Your finger is broken."

4) Bush's position on Roe vs Wade: Eh, he didn't care how ppl got out of New Orleans.

A peak at our dinner-time talks

Last night at dinner Brian informed me of Tam's latest discovery.
The conversation went something like this...

Brian to Tamlin: "Cheerios don't go up your nose, bud"

Me to Brian and Tam: "Cheerios aren't supposed to go up there, but I think they might fit"

Brian to me, with a very straight face: "Tam learned today that his finger fits up his nose"

Me: "What?!"

Brian: "Yep, I turned away for a moment and when I looked back at him he had his digit up his nostril clear to the second knuckle"

Me: "What?!"....

Loud jovial laughter ensued for many moments. I could just picture this shining moment in our son's life.

Luckily no food was snorted back out of noses at the dinner table.

Sheesh.

I hate when my head doesn't fit in the glass!

Cosmopolitans on a muggy night = very good evening

Humorous art :-)

While cruising around the web for some clipart or silhouettes to use as designs for stencils I stumbled onto a rather silly website. I encourage you to check out Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre for a quick giggle or two.

Tweets of Science (LOL)

Think we can train Magellon?

Things that make you go hmmm...

Homo Sapiens
Diligently inventing ways to screw with other species for over 100,000 years.

Yep. Proud to be a human :-) But for the life of me, I have no idea why a cat would want to be able to dive and breathe under water? To watch all the fish go by that he can't eat?

Is there an alternative acceptable answer ?

So True :-)

LAUGH until you pee

How a baby is made video link

Grins!

Passing the time a long drives

With all the driving Brian and I do together, we have many ways to pass the long highway hours. On our latest sprint to Pennsylvania in back, we got on the topic of famous people who we think are Hotty-McHottisons. It was an interesting list we arrived :-)

I would totally date Duff from Ace of Cakes :-) I think it is my slight favoritism toward bald dudes plus he can cook cakes. Heck, I even think Alton Brown is pretty sexy in a science-y way. However, Mel Gibson has moved off the list but Sean Connery will never be too old to be hot. Ooohhh and then there is David Bromstad from Color Splash. Totally hot with his ripped body and tattoos...and most likely not into women. Oh well. Brian still liked Selma Hayek

I know this is what Magellon is thinking!

Peep Experiments

For those of us who enjoy science research AND these disgusting marshmallow goo animals, this is a must visit website:

Peep Research

I particularly liked the medical miracle & the risk analysis studies!