03.23.08
Peep Show
HAPPY EASTER, Peeps!
02.20.08
Pacaderm Picnic
I found out yesterday that Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus was going to bring their elephants to the downtown park in our hometown for a Pacaderm Picnic so the kids could get the chance to see what nine full grown elephants eat for lunch. Since babygirl goes ape-poo over elephants, I decided to take her; I couldn’t wait to see the look on her face.
Apparently elephants eat lots of bread, and bananas, and carrots, and apples, and watermelons.
We really had the best spot up front and center because there were nine elephants but I could only get three in the picture without crushing a few hundred other kids for the larger group photo-op. The elephants hungrily shoved whole bunches of bananas, loaves of bread and watermelons in their mouths to the screams of excitement of hundreds of children and their parents/caregivers. Here is what babygirl thought of all of that.
Wait, can you not see the excitement in my child’s face? Can you not tell how incredibly excited she is to see the elephants? Here, let me show you another photo. This time a close-up.
See, all the trouble momma went through to find out about the elephants making an appearance in the in the downtown park and figuring out where in the huge park they would be and map questing the logistics of getting to the park from our house and then packing a lunch and a thermos of milk and some snacks and getting us both dressed in warm enough clothes for being outside in February yet still layered enough to have something to remove if the sun came out and making sure she had enough correct-change cash for parking and getting the stroller in the car and driving downtown and then PARKING THE CAR DOWNTOWN! and then getting us safely from where we parked the car to the downtown park and through the park to the place where the elephants would be and then staking out the best spot for her to view the elephants and then keeping her entertained stationary in the stroller for a half-hour while we waited for the time for the elephants to arrive since it was necessary to get there early to get a good spot and also ensure we didn’t arrive too late to see the elephants and then entertaining her for another half-hour because the elephants were late and she cried and was fussy because it would all be worth it just to see the look on her face. In case you missed it, here it is again.
Oh, kiddo, I hope you know your moma loves you and she would do it many times over because you really do love elephants . . . you do, don’t you? Just try to muster up a little bit more excitement next time . . . OK?
Love,
moma
02.12.08
Automated Tasty Murder
I will never look at a bathroom hand dryer the same way again. (As merely a swirling vortex of bathroom germs blowing directly on your freshly cleaned hands.)
Mmmmm bacon . . . . as Morrissey says — “Meat is murder . . . tasty, tasty murder.”
