June 11, 2007
Cleared for take off
And off it goes into it's broken future....the life of a small boy's plaything is short nast and brutish.
June 06, 2007
Us on TV
When Kim and I saw the TV reporter and cameraman standing on the beach while we played in the water with Lily and Jake we both thought:
"Great. Something terrible must've happened....sewage spill, invasion of jellyfish...why do parents let their kids swim in polluted water."
Nope, just a story about water safety and kids in Hawai‘i.
June 02, 2007
My daughter: the mistress of trivia
So over the last few days I've been making a DVD for Lily's kindergarten class. I told Lil's teacher that I could make one and just to have parents give me their photos and I would put it together and make a bunch of copies for everybody.
So Lily and I spent a few hours organizing all of the pictures by kid or by activity and making slideshows. She picked out songs and transitions between the pictures. DW will be (un)happy to know that she picked a White Stripes song - and it fits perfectly - check out their video for it here. A Ramones song (Blitzkrieg Bop for Halloween - makes sense to me) and some tunes from the Cars soundtrack and we have a pretty nice looking and sounding dvd.
Today Lily, Kim and Jake were decorating the CD/DVD sleeves before we pass them out to everybody and we had the dvd going in the background, the music was playing, and the slideshows were going by. Jake heard one song where they say "humuhumunukunukuapua‘a" and then he asked: "What song is this?"
Me: "Little Grass Shack by Leon Redbone" and quickly adding "Oh, well, now it's somebody else - there's two people singing...now it's Ringo...he actually sings another song that you guys know...he sings Yellow Submarine."
Lily: "Ringo was in the Beatles?"
Brad: *
Brad: "Um. Yeah"
Parents look at each other. Chip off the old block apparently.
May 26, 2007
May Day Program
Ma'ema'e had their May Day program this past Friday - this picture sums it all up. Not quite stage fright, but a little anxious...
May 23, 2007
Finally !
I've been waiting to overhear a conversation like this between Lily and Jake for as long as they have been talking.
Jake: Who would win...Giganotosaurus or T-rex?
Lily: Gigonotosaurus...he's bigger.
Jake: Yeah...Giganotosaurus would win...
Lily: But Jacob...what if there was a group of T-rexes?
Jacob: And a group of Giganonotsauruses?
Lily: No just one and a group of T-rexes....
Jacob: The T-rexes..but what if there was a google of Giganotosauruses?
At that point things got silly...no need to recount that kind of stuff. Coming soon: who's faster: Lightning McQueen or an SR-71 Blackbird?
May 21, 2007
Mother's Day 2007
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Kim came home just in time for Mother's Day - she finished her last trip to Sasebo, and though it means that we won't get anymore shinkanshens (Jake), fancy dolls (Lily), high quality Japanese models (Me), and delicious omiyagi (everybody who get's that kine stuff) we prefer it this way.
For Mother's Day, we started the way most all Sundays Start: bouncing up and down with Fiona at gymnastics. Then went home where Kim got her presents - soaps and that kinda junk, but most importantly, the best presents you could ask for....take a look at the slide show....^
Another Spitfire - One year later
So here's a just completed plane - basically the exact same model as the first one I did last year as pictured here.. As you can see, I've gotten a little better.
A-10
For all the A-10's I used to watch fly over Davis Monthan. Unfortunately I lost the ladder and had to make one from scratch.
May 09, 2007
The Best Lei EVER
So I get Jake to school right on time on Tuesday May 1. The first of May...for me it means "Workers of the World Unite !"...the struggle of the proletariat....the ownership of the means of production...."the only thing you have to loose are your chains".....blah blah blah
In Hawaii however, the first day in May is Lei Day. Probably because , well, probably just cause it rhymes. I guess it's like how here in the islands, June first is Prune Day, but I'm getting off the topic here.
Now if Kim were anywhere in the Western hemisphere at this time, she would have set us up with garlands of flowers for the kids. But alas, she's moving bombs in Japan (again). Or more precisely, like women have for ages untold, she is telling men where to move things, in this case high explosives. Suffice it to say that while I was reminiscing on the May Day parades of my youth, watching the tanks and missles roll over Red Square, watching waves of soldiers marching to military bands and waving flags*, I SHOULD'VE been making Jake and Lily some leis.
This all became crashingly clear when we got to Jake's room at CHildren's Center, he peeked in at all the other little kids all bedecked and stuff and then the sight all parents dread: the quivering lip.
Jake (heartbroken)- "I NEED A LEI"
Dad (gobsmacked)- "Oh. It's May Day...LEI Day...Well, I, um. You see Jake...why didn't you...Well as Marx would say..."
Only one dialectic at work here - Get a lei or suck. I opted to not suck.
Dad (brightly)- "Well, let's go make one !"
Jake (realizing life will not end) - "Really? OK ! LET'S GO!"
So we spent the next 15 minutes wandering around his school to find enough fallen flowers to make a creditable lei. Thank god for plumeria trees. And, if you don't have a lei needle, or string, or dental floss, or basically anything at all to string your lei, tape will do.
He wore it all day.
Best lei EVER.
*NOTE: Never happened. Well the lei thing did. And Kim in Japan. Just not the Kremlin part.
In the Tunnel of Trippy Psychedelic Creation
Really. Black light + flourescent colors = pretty psychedelic experience.
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