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Scenes from this morning
Believe it or not, little E actually requested this good stuff for breakfast.
Category: …And Little E Makes 3
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Little E vs. Salad
I made myself a well-decent salad this morning. Grated my own cheese and everything. I didn’t have much dressing – it turns out we were out of ranch dressing – but I managed to find a couple of little packets of Chick-Fil-A ranch sauce and dumped them in there. Probably added a thousand calories that way, but hey, it was tasty. Plenty of croutons too. Always plenty of croutons, or you’re just doin’ it wrong. When Little E heard the crunch, he was suddenly much more interested.
E: Dad, is that graham crackers?
ME: No, it’s croutons in my salad. They’re made of bread. You want one?
E: Okay.
[crunch crunch + pause]
E: It’s not like pizza.
ME: No, most people don’t put pizza stuff in their salad. You want another bite with green leafy stuff and some cheese? It’s good.
E: Does it taste like pizza?
ME: No.
E: I just want pizza.
I have to admire his honesty and his ability to start from the general and hang a sharp right turn toward the specific. He just wants pizza. For breakfast.
I suppose it makes as much sense as salad for breakfast, big guy.… Read more
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Portia update
Portia recently had a surgical procedure to remove her kitten-making equipment. I back up my cats nightly, so I don’t need her making additional backups. She’s recovering nicely though. Here she is recuperating while Little E watches cartoons.
And here’s how she craftily avoids the cat equivalent of hospital food. … Read more
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Little E vs. themes and symbolism in film
We watched Finding Nemo tonight and then it was bathtime. While I was drawing the bath:
E: Dad, you’re the daddy fish. I’m the little fish.
I shouldn’t really read too much into that, but you know what? He’s exactly right. … Read more
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Little E vs. Sound
E: Dad, what’s that?
ME: That’s called a waveform.
E: A waveform?
ME: It shows you what sound looks like. See, the more lines there are and the bigger lines there are, the more sound there is.
E: That’s what sound looks like?
[pause]
E: Dad, what does sound taste like?
ME: Chicken.… Read more
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E and Z, or how to unclog your dog
We had to spend an unnervingly large amount of my wife’s paycheck on a vet visit for Xena the other day. She hasn’t been the same since the weather got nice again and we let her go back outside – well, it’s more like we had to push her outside.
And therein lies the problem. … Read more
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Little E vs. BASIC
So you want to program a subroutine in BASIC, but your bose is dopped ub because you hab a code? Little E has you covered. Allow me to introduce… … Read more
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Ain’t it funny how the night moves… while it’s reading in bed
I put Evan to bed tonight and he kept on talking to himself for quite a while, so I thought it was worth checking out. I’m getting better about being a “quick draw” with my phone’s camera, and as I peeked around the corner into his room, I saw this little face:
But what the heck was he still doing up with that light on? … Read more
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A good start on not being a hermit like dad
Little E already has his first invitation to a birthday party this weekend. Wow! This means his social calendar is 100% more busy than his dad’s. Apparently the theme of this shindig is going to be Batman, so there’s no telling what the boy wonder will get up to.
Every day at work I see a commercial for some hair coloring product where a grey-haired guy says “My hair says experience,” while his darker-haired doppelganger says “My hair says energy!”
All I can think of is: “…and my hair says AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!”
Guess you kinda have to be there.… Read more
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Little E vs. sleep and parental authority
Little guy really didn’t like my suggestions that his little tired butt needed to go to bed tonight after a long cranky day of refusing to take a nap. He was also kinda difficult to have any kind of a conversation with:
LITTLE E: I don’t want to do what you say. I just want to watch cartoons.
ME: Well, I’d like to win the lottery without the morally reprehensible and mathematically inadvisable step of buying a ticket, but we don’t always get what we want.
[pause]
LITTLE E: Can I watch cartoons?… Read more