Soccer buds

 
Lily and bff Aiyana.

Lily has already scored twice this season, once in her first game no less. And interstingly, it was nearly a carbon copy of her old man's first goal back in 1977.

Left side.

Five yards from the goal.

Ball bobbles to us.

Stop.

Wait.

Think.

Kick.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

Brought it all back.

Easter Baskets

 
Bring on the goodies.

Looks dangerous...

 
You go first.

My kids talking Livy into something less than smart...

Good Times?

Still have a job, as does everybody in Exhibits. Some people won’t be as lucky today.
All salaried staff are now 36 hour employees (ie. 10% pay cut).
Got back to my desk and was listening to Dick Tater and the Czarina's weekly radio show.
They were playing “Good Times” by Chic.
So wrong.

Ready to play

 

Enough with watching her little brother - Lily is ready to go.

Jake the bike mechanic

 

Now that Lily and Jake can ride w/o training wheels it was time to get my bike out of mothballs so I can keep up when we head to the park.

Jake loves cleaning and prepping.

That's my one and only mountain bike from back in the day. Got it in 1989 and still is great, though rusty here and there.

Teeth

 

Lots of them.

Ms. Focus

 
Getting ready for a throw in - time to visualize...

Fashionista Jake

 

Now he only wears Paul Lars Campbell fleece..the snob.

IR family

 

Lily and I in IR at the Astronomy open house at UH

A is for.....Admiral Akbar!

So Jake and I are reading before lights out last night.

He chose "Zoe and Her Zebra" - one of those alphabet book where each page has an animal with a different initial letter. Each page also has a like lettered kid being "chased" by said animal.

So we're on B....

I'm pointing to the words and Jake is slowly reading...

"B....is...for....Ben...but who....is...chasing......him?"

Rather than go for the obvious (and pictured) animal Jake goes with an alternative that works.

"BANTHA !"

I love that kid. He was remembering when I showed him this:




Star Wars Alphabet

Have a Rocking Angus Day

Happy Bday!

NPR picks up the mashup below:

Here's the story

OMG That ROCKS!

I've pointed a lot of people to BoingBoing over the years (I keep the link over there on the right hand column) but incase any of you missed it....

Some mad genius of teh Intrenets took other people's YouTube videos, remixed them and created a seriously rocking jam. Trumpets. Drums. Bass. Guitars. THERIMIN (!).

Enjoy. I'm still shaking my head at the supreme awesomeness.

You asked for it.

Brother Midnight (he so doesn't remember his nickname I'm sure) has questioned my mental health: he claims this blog evidences an "unhealthy obsession with (my) children"

Furthermore he demands more pictures of Kim.



This is the guy who (oh so many years ago) said to me and another friend "Let's have a contest to see who can make Kim their girlfriend"

I won, already.

Move on dude.

Hello old friend

Had to run an errand today...and got to park next to my old car!

Of course, since the dude who bought the Honda works at the Museum with me, I get to see her everyday anyway.

'ch angen beth?*

*TRANS "You want what?"
So heritage day is coming up on Friday for Jake's kindergarten class. Kids are supposed to bring in food that reflects their ethnic heritage.

Since Jake is Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Japanese from his mom's side, we could bring in just about anything that local kids eat here on a daily basis:

• Mochi


• Musubi


• Haupia


• Kulolo


• Noodles


• Fugu (ok, maybe not an everyday food)

So what does Jake ask for?

"I want Welsh food"

Um.

Dude.

Boiled mutton will not go over well...but I am the kid's dad and will do what I have to do. Fine.

This is why they invented the Internets.

So I was calling around trying to see who has ingredients for Jake’s Welsh dessert request. Hard to find Caerphilly cheese 8,000 miles from its source.

I did find this recipe though:

Cynhwysion
450g o fwyar duon wedi eu golchi a'u sychu
75g o siwgwr brown
150g o flawd codi
75g o fenyn
ychydig o ddŵr
Cyfunwch y mwyar duon, y siwgwr ac ychydig o ddŵr mewn sosban a berwch y gyfuniad am tua 5 munud. Yn y cyfamser rhoddwch y blawd mewn powlen a rhwbiwch y menyn iddo nes fod y gymysgfa fel briwsion mân. Trosglwyddwch y mwyar duon i ddesgil addas i'r popty a rhodwch y gymysgedd crymbl am ei ben.

Trosglwyddwch i bopty wedi ei gyn-gynhesu i 175°C a phobwch am tua 20 munud, neu nes fod pen y crymbl yn euraidd. Gweinwch yn boeth gyda chwstad.

>>>>>>>>>>>
Once again, I'd thank my ancestors for leaving the old country and moving to America where there were plenty of vowels.

I doubt my descendants will be able to take our family’s quest for a low consonant to vowel ratio much farther than Hawai‘i.

We are, at long last, home.
( or if you prefer: ]m , am ddyhea bara , addef)

Translations provided by the Internets.

When life gives you the Lemmonds kids...

Take them to the beach and skating at the Ice Palace

Exploring the Ka Iwi Coast









Mermaidens


Making off with the trail mix




And then....time to crash

The Mini Me's

Aunty Chris took the kids for an outing last Sunday. 

They were stoked that they got to ride in a sport (ok, sporty) car.

A good time was had by all.

Here's hoping.

Like so many millions of people, I'm on Facebook and yes, it's totally addicting. Like all fads or diseases, there is a classic infection curve. Slate has a great story of one of the mini-fads within Facebook - The 25 Random Things.

The graph shows the growth of 25 Random Things in the facebook world. With my low, (relatively) unhip, and (for the most part) trusted friend count, I didn't get hit up to do my own until February 10 well after the epidemic had begun to peter out.

I'm hoping that my unsociability in the real world (reflected by my paltry Facebook friend total) will save me when ebola or bird flu goes airborne, or people start turning into zombies. 

I'll be up in the hills with a shotgun and MRE's by that time. 

*Note to self. Find out where to get shotgun, how to load shotgun, how to fire shotgun, research zombie physiology to exploit weaknesses. Don't forget can opener for MRE's. And MRE's. Bug spray. Sunblock. Couple books. Definitely a guitar....