Best Game EVER!

I was paging back through Improv Everywhere's missions, and found one I had somehow missed (I mean missed it being posted, not missed the event itself - I live nowhere near any of their events!).

It's funny AND really cute. Seriously. Big warm fuzzies and grins.

The best game EVER - IE adds some big-league magic to a little-league game, with some big-name collaboration...

7 Quick Takes Friday - Nein! err, Nine!

1. School pictures for Patrick are back - they tuned out PERFECT. And I don't mean perfectly posed perfect hair etc., but rather, the perfect picture of Patrick. It's very *him* (without being goofy or anything like that). I'd post a scan, but you know how copyright stuff goes.

2. On that same note, our appointment for the kiddos' Christmas pics is on Monday. I'm probably going to miss being able to do it when nobody else is out of school, but now that Patrick's in pre-K, that's not an option. So here's hoping things aren't too crazy there Monday.

3. Calla and Patrick have been on a Pingu kick lately. I'm hoping to get them a DVD of it soon, so that they'll be able to watch it more easily (currently, we have two episodes - 5 mins each - on a couple of HIT entertainment DVDs; they can watch some via Netflix on the hubby's comp, but that means they have to be at his computer to do it.).

4. Why does Bob the Builder have a runic keyboard on his laptop? You can catch a glimpse of it during the On Site vids. I understand trying to make the show easily translatable to markets using other languages, but would a Latin alphabet keyboard *really* interfere with the show being marketable in other countries? Seriously?

(If it's an issue with not being able to make a full scaled keyboard, then just don't show the whole thing in shots.)

5. Why did my spice bottle of bay leaves come with a (thankfully removable) shaker top? No, it wasn't to shake the leaves out one-at-a-time, because the holes were much too small for the leaves (might have been large enough for whole cloves, perhaps).

6. Distractability - when you step away from doing the blog post in order to help the girl with something, and end up cleaning one of the bathrooms - including toilet and mopping - before you get back to the computer. (And no, it wasn't immediately necessary that the bathroom be cleaned.) But hey, the bathroom DOES look nicer now.

7. The return of cooler weather = time to have CoCo Wheats again! :) Happy me!

Preemie Awareness Day

Check out the link - find out what you can do to help prevent prematurity and help preemies.

Thanks from a former preemie!

So what do YOU think it is...?

This is a fire truck.

This is a Calla-set tea party - casual, for her, as typically, she would put her blanket over the table first. Tablecloth, you know. It makes the party. Anyhow, notice anything unusual...?

Yes, that is the fire truck, with all its block-puzzle-parts off, at the tea party. Now, *I* know what she has it there for, in that form. Can you guess...?

Edited to add: Yep, it's a birthday cake.

Victor Borge does Happy Birthday

As only he can. Gotta love him.

Picnik

See the difference? This is from using Picnik for color saturation and temperature effects - see how much more the colors pop on the second one?

It's FREE. And you do save the image back to your own computer. WHEE!!

Here's another -- going waaaay back for Patrick -- for this, I just cropped and had it autofix.

Another one

Because it'd be her type of sense of humor.