SeaBird Chronicleshttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/en-US2012-02-11T06:53:38ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Wordsmithhttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/wordsmith.htmlSeaBird2012-02-10T01:46:32ZDaily lifeJonathan and I played Scrabble the other night for the first time in about a decade.  He was increasingly bewildered and annoyed at the words I came up with – they were not long, nor did they score many points, but they were… obscure.

I asked him to look up a word on the Scrabble web site to see if was valid.

He said: “I’m sure it’s a word because everything else you invent is a word.”

]]>Zoo Miamihttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/zoo-miami.htmlSeaBird2012-02-08T01:00:05ZDaily life with kids PhotosConstraints:

- There are about 5 months of the year visiting the Miami zoo can be enjoyable.

- Silas still naps each afternoon.

- The zoo closes at 5:30pm.

- It takes about 30 minutes to get there, walking out our door to walking in the zoo.

Which means we woke up Silas and flew out the door at 3:30pm, rented a bicycle cart (“it will be fun!!” says Jonathan), pedaled around about half of the zoo at a furious pace… hello lion, goodbye lion, “where was the lion?  I never saw it!”… 

 

Whew!

I love this photo....

 

]]>Making jam and unloading a treehttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/making-jam-and-unloading-a-tree.htmlSeaBird2012-02-03T20:57:14ZDaily life with kids PhotosMaking blackberry and pear jam...

Unloading the Christmas tree several weeks ago....

]]>It was only just a [funny] dreamhttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/it-was-only-just-a-funny-dream.htmlSeaBird2012-01-31T04:23:21ZDaily lifeLook at me!  Listening to music!  That's almost current!

You know the Nelly song, "Just A Dream" ..... ?  I really like it.  And unlike the rest of you, I've only heard it half a dozen times (during spinning classes last summer), so I'm not sick of it. 

I was listening to Sam Tsui and Christina Grimmie's cover of it, then wanted to hear the original to compare.

Then I saw the most popular comment on the video where they changed the lyrics to:

"Think about her,

think about meat,

think about us,

what we gonna eat?"

HAHAHA! 

 

 

(This reminds me of the time last summer that - after one of the aforementioned spinning classes - I asked the instructor who sung that amazing song about "we could have had it allllllll."  He really tried to keep himself from asking which rock I had just crawled out from under, but his body language gave him away.)

]]>Pirate graffitihttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/pirate-graffiti.htmlSeaBird2012-01-31T00:00:28ZDaily life with kids PhotosIt’s tough to find an un-chalked inch of sidewalk anywhere near our house.  Three chalking boys and very little rain lately....

.... close-up of a drawing by Jonah.

]]>Would you believe that their room has five beds?http://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/would-you-believe-that-their-room-has-five-beds.htmlSeaBird2012-01-30T04:03:21ZDaily life with kids Photos

]]>Birthdayhttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/birthday.htmlSeaBird2012-01-26T00:00:47ZDaily life with kids PhotosTo celebrate Jonah and Benjamin turning six,

we had a party for the first time since they turned one! 

Theme?  Star Wars!

Mostly the kids just played on the playground,

but toward the end we did a treasure hunt...

... which took them out to the bay to find their treat bags.... 

... and then we did a pinata, which was a Death Star,

carefully crafted over many late nights by Jonathan

out of paper mache....

The kids lined up by height... 

and used a light saber to whack away...

treats!

and cupcakes!

]]>The reason Silas goes to church each Sundayhttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/the-reason-silas-goes-to-church-each-sunday.htmlSeaBird2012-01-24T01:38:02ZDaily life with kids PhotosThis bundle of cuteness is Tessa....

... or, as Jonathan says, "our future daughter-in-law."

]]>Not coldhttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/not-cold.htmlSeaBird2012-01-20T23:17:21ZDaily life with kidsI took Silas out of the shower.

Silas:  Cold!  Cold, Mama!

I dried him off then sent him off to his room for pajamas.

Silas:  Cold!  Hold me, Mama!

I picked him up.

Silas:  Thank you, Mama.  Not cold.

]]>A message from Benjaminhttp://www.seabirdchronicles.com/adc/a-message-from-benjamin.htmlSeaBird2012-01-14T23:13:59ZDaily life with kidsExcerpt from a Word document created by Benjamin ("shuf" is his version of "whew" and he created the spelling):  

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA    ok  shuf             

o   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   o

what

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