SeaBird Chronicles

Wordsmith

SeaBird — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:46:32 +0000

Jonathan 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 Miami

SeaBird — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:05 +0000

Constraints:

- 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 tree

SeaBird — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:57:14 +0000

Making blackberry and pear jam...

Unloading the Christmas tree several weeks ago....

It was only just a [funny] dream

SeaBird — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:23:21 +0000

Look 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 graffiti

SeaBird — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:28 +0000

It’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?

SeaBird — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:03:21 +0000

Birthday

SeaBird — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:47 +0000

To 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 Sunday

SeaBird — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:38:02 +0000

This bundle of cuteness is Tessa....

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

Not cold

SeaBird — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:17:21 +0000

I 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 Benjamin

SeaBird — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:13:59 +0000

Excerpt 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