Easter 2008

Egg hunting this year was decidedly more adversarial than last year.

Last year the two childrens basically hunted eggs together making sure to share their finds so that everyone got an equal share... without any prompting from us parents.

This year there was quite a bit of racing and bumping and pushing and shoving . You'd think it was a Nascar event -- on the track or in the beer line.

The dumptster

We're finally pretty much done with the dumpster. This was the second fill up. The first one went pretty quick. The second one fillup took a couple weeks. We demolished the old-doghouse that was here when we moved in as well as a lot of the fencing over in that area.

The dumpster company's rule of thumb is 1 cubic yard per year in your house so the first 20 yard dumpster should have been plenty. Apparently we are over achievers. We could probably scrape up enough junk for a 3rd one but that will take even longer and we've much such a large impact that we'll call it done for now.

Aelyn'isms

"My friend saw a crab with tweezers this big."

Aelyn'isms

"When I grow up I'm going to let my kids have rooms as messy as they like!"
-- Aelyn during the hissy fit she threw when we made her clean up her room.

Ian'isms

Ian was peeling apples tonight for pie. "Peeling apples is kind of like Exoforce. Once you start fighting a new robot it's hard but when you learn all of its moves it gets easier. That's just like when you start peeling an apple and it is hard to get through the skin. Once you get through the skin it is easy."

Really Cool Car

Hot wheels / Lotus concept car

Found this on Gizmodo. Ian really digs it!

Aelyn'isms

At dinner the last night I suggested that in 1,000 years we'd be teleporting everywhere. Aelyn then suggested that in 2,000 years we wouldn't have teleports any more. We just eat a fish nugget and we'd go anywhere we'd wanted.