Andrew bought me a Wii Fit for an early birthday gift, so I returned the favor this morning and we brought him home Guitar Hero World Tour, with the Metallica disc as an extra special bonus. (Happy early birthday, honey ( Read more... )

Trapped in the house again today because of Sick Child. So this time I joined Facebook and found a few of you on there already. (Terri Wheeler, by the way.) Though I suspect I'm about as deadweight as you can get to add to a friends list. Heh ( Read more... )

For various and sundry reasons, I finally signed up at Twitter. If you have a twitter ... feed? or whatever they're called, let me know so I can follow you there. I'm terriwheeler. Andrew is nicklepede, and he's the one who posts photos of the kids and I in the pool at the Y during swim lessons. Heh. Me, I haven't posted anything yet. I'd say ( Read more... )

Audrey is sort of obsessed with Pluto right now. Of course, the 4 year old mind doesn't have all the cultural and scientific literacy hooks necessary to quite make the right sense of it all. I suspect it has much to do with the mind-boggling-to-her concept that something used to be a planet, but now isn't ( Read more... )

My husband totally rocks. In response to my Tang-issues of earlier, he found a site that not only shows you how to Make Your Own Tang -- but in fact allow you to Awesomely Make Your Own Tang because ... it's science!

(Warning: second link goes to a pdf.)

I'm not much of a protesting, agitating or complaining type, but God help me, I just got off the phone with Kraft to complain that it is no longer possible to buy Tang without artificial sweetener.

I am so not cool with this new thing of mixing natural and artificial sweeteners in a product.

My aunt brought over some $20+/lb cheese, and all I have to sample it is some Chicken in a Biskit.

(It's pretty good!)

I'm getting mixed messages from the online weather reports. If you were my husband (who is, let us say, a Texas man), would you want to fly into Chicago early tomorrow morning and fly back out in the afternoon? Or would the weather still be too crappy?

Reply in comments here and I'll ( Read more... )

Tonight, I laid on the ground with one kid tucked on each arm (in case you ever wondered how it's even possible to tandem nurse) and we watched Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. Owen watched intently for about 20 minutes before falling fast asleep. Audrey was transfixed.

She says "the robot guy" is her favorite.