The weekend: Abigail and Lord of the Rings
Abby had her first visit to our congregation, F&K, on Sunday. She did well, except for when she started eating and was really loud. No one near us seemed to mind. We had sat on the side near the front, because Abby is such a social baby, I figured it would be more distracting for her to be near all the other babies in the back.
Abby is also learning to crawl! So far she's just managed the comando crawl, but is getting pretty good at moving. I noticed her yesterday working up to her knees, but she still isn't managing it.
She's also becoming very fascinated with the outdoors. We've taken her out for a walk the last few days, and sometimes we set her on the windowsill behind the couch to look out. Now, when I hold her and sit there, she climbs up me to the window (with some help from me)--every time. She's a very determined baby.
In other news, over the weekend I watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had seen the first one when it came out and wasn't impressed. Due in part to nothing else being on TV, I watched them and was actually interested in watching the rest. There were some things that disturbed me, however.
Has anyone else noticed the rather obvious racial divisions in the movie? All the good guys are white European-based (the Hobbits seemed pretty obviously Irish), whereas the bad guys were Indian, Chinese (they didn't really show many of them but, come on, Chinese junks?), etc.
Either Tolkein was trying to say something or he ran out of creative juices when describing his characters. Either way it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Abby is also learning to crawl! So far she's just managed the comando crawl, but is getting pretty good at moving. I noticed her yesterday working up to her knees, but she still isn't managing it.
She's also becoming very fascinated with the outdoors. We've taken her out for a walk the last few days, and sometimes we set her on the windowsill behind the couch to look out. Now, when I hold her and sit there, she climbs up me to the window (with some help from me)--every time. She's a very determined baby.
In other news, over the weekend I watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had seen the first one when it came out and wasn't impressed. Due in part to nothing else being on TV, I watched them and was actually interested in watching the rest. There were some things that disturbed me, however.
Has anyone else noticed the rather obvious racial divisions in the movie? All the good guys are white European-based (the Hobbits seemed pretty obviously Irish), whereas the bad guys were Indian, Chinese (they didn't really show many of them but, come on, Chinese junks?), etc.
Either Tolkein was trying to say something or he ran out of creative juices when describing his characters. Either way it left a bad taste in my mouth.