In Search of Myself

I love this kid!

Totally. Yeah.

Last night NBC ran an Office marathon.  To try to appease us die-hard fans who are going insane after the SIXTH week of no new episodes, they had a bunch of new scenes of Toby talking to the camera -- kind of hosting the marathon.  And OMG, they were hilarious.  Some of them are online to watch.  The one that almost made me fall off the couch laughing was this:

“Sometimes when I come in to work, I ask myself, ‘If this was my last day on earth, what would I do differently?’ Well, I’d wear a T-shirt, and I’d order a French dip sandwich and eat the whole thing, and then I’d blow up this building and go swimming and I’d drink wine.” (Off the shocked stare of the documentary filmmaker.) “What!”

wow.  that's beyond hilarious. 

To read more or find the clips, stalk Office Tally like I do.

*edited*  YAY, they posted the clip to the part I quoted.  When I talked to Priscilla on the phone earlier, she didn't understand why I thought it was funny.  CLICK HERE.

Last Saturday

Grand-dad

Help!

Hee

Ok, first of all . . . how cute are these pictures?  (my mom took them a few weeks ago.)

Second, I need for you to tell me I'm not crazy.  I think that the bike needs the seat and handle-bars raised, because Jake is getting bigger and when he rides it, the bike actually looks like a little circus bike a clown would ride.  Yes?  No?  Am I insane?  My mom thinks it's fine.

Oh, and as long as we're talking size, Jake still weighs 52 pounds and when we measured him in Sunday School this week, measured 47 inches tall.

Sad towns

Jake and I were listening to the Cars soundtrack -- our favorite CD right now -- and when #5 came on (the song that plays as they're talking about how Radiator Springs USED to be, before the interstate bypassed them), Jake said "Mama, what happened to that sad town?"

wow.  My kid shocks me sometimes with how intelligent he is.  Sometimes it seems like he's just not paying much attention.  But he is.  He especially has a great audio memory -- he can associate things he's heard with where they go, like where they are in the movie or which song is on a mixed CD with other songs if he hears it on the original album.  crazy.

So I tried to explain to him that some towns, like the one we're in right now, are always building new houses and new buildings and there is a constant stream of new people moving there and businesses opening.  Towns like that are alive and growing and healthy.

Then I tried to explain that other towns just can't grow.  People leave more than people move there, there's hardly any houses being built because there's just no need, new businesses don't come to town because there's just no use.  People still live there for one reason or another, but the town isn't really ALIVE.

Yeah, I have first-hand experience in that.

Then Jake said "Mama, we live in a GOOD town."

Yes we do, buddy.

Jake's room

Since Kathy moved out last month, my mom turned her room into a playroom for Jake (and Zoe.)  We decorated it with Backyardigans wall stickers and a border (Kat had painted the walls some funky colors, and we had to find something to match.)  Jake's train table is in there, as well as a new white bookshelf, a corner desk, the treadmill, and a little TV stand with a new McQueen (Cars) TV.  (It's kind of crowded.  LOL.)  But now we're trying to decide what to do with the rest of the walls -- I bought 2 10x10 black frames at Target, then an 11x14 frame.  Those will go on one wall, with photos of the kids.  The other major wall is still up for grabs, but we'll make a decision eventually.

This is the page I just made to go in one of the 10x10 frames, it's a copy of a design I used a few weeks ago:

Prayers

As Jake and I were going to sleep on Wednesday night, he suddenly sat up and said "Wait, we have to say prayers!"

"Oh?"

"Yeah, like at Nana's house."

"Ok."

"Mom, we have to God Bless people."

hee

Feb. 2007 through Jake's eyes

I love seeing what comes out of Jake's Fisher Price camera when I upload the pictures. his view of our house is so interesting! (and there are always funny pictures of me!) And I'm going to try to make a layout every month of the pictures, because hey, it's HIS scrapbook.  This is more representative of his life than anything.  (I think we need to start taking the camera with us when we go places, though.  LOL.)

and here's January: