A couple days before Valentines ABC was showing “A Charlie Brown Valentine” and since Alex has always enjoyed the Peanuts specials and Andrew is a big fan of “Noopie” we manged to get home from soccer practice and get them fed and showered in time to watch it. In this special CB spends the entire episode agonizing over the “little red hair girl” and trying to figure out if she even knows he exists, if she’s going to be sending him a valentine, and trying to muster up the courage ask her to the Valentines dance.

About half way though the episode CB is at school sitting on a bench all by himself waving a sandwich around that he’s not eating and he is going on an on about the “little red hair girl.” This particular scene happens twice. After finishing his rant the first time CB takes the sandwich he appears to have maybe taken a bite out of, stuffs into his lunch bag, walks over to the trash, and tosses it away. It really looked like he just threw away a perfectly good lunch without eating it. The second time this scene plays out CB is again sitting on the bench waving his sandwich around talking about the “little red hair girl.” I wish I had the exact speech but it was something like,

“Look at the “little red hair girl” over there. I wondering if she sees me? What heroic thing could I do to make her notice me? I want to ask her to the dance but I don’t think she evens knows who I am and I don’t even have her number.” Just like the time before he stuffs the uneaten sandwich back in the lunch bag and as he’s walking away from the bench still pouring out his soul to the audience Alex cuts him off mid sentence and says,

“If I were him I’d just finish that sandwich.”

Ahh, romance.

Happy New Year! We’ve made it through another year and I’m starting to sound more like my parents, “Where did the year go, it went by so fast.”

Lets start the year with some humor. Nothing says “Thank you” from your employer like a personalized 2008 desk calendar with your name misspelled on every month.

It was a good Halloween this year. I’m sure everyone is just dying to know what the kids went out as this year so the pictures are below.

Alex decided he wanted to go as a Saints football player this year and he was very exited his costume. He wore his cleats, gold football pants, Saints Helmet, and his number 9 Drew Brees jersey.

Andrew was Curious George this year and like usual Jen worked hard on putting his costume together and she even took the time to get me dressed up as The Man with the Yellow Hat.

For trick-or-treating we met up with with the Alex’s “Comanche Cubs” friends and we all went around as a big group. Andrew had a good time but there were a couple of costumes out there that scared the living daylights out of him. We would go up to a house and older kids covered in fake blood, welts on their face, wearing crazy wigs and carrying chainsaws would come behind us and when Andrew would turn around and see them he would just freeze with this look of absolute horror on his face. We ended up having to carry him a good portion of the way after that.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve taken the time to update the web site or post anything here. Things have been pretty busy around here with Alex starting kindergarten, a week later Andrew started back at pre-school, and Alex has started playing on a soccer team. We’ve also not taken very many pictures in the past couple of months so there hasn’t been a whole lot to post.

I’ve decided to take the Jeopardy approach and put together a potpourri page. It’s has some pictures of Alex on his first day of school, Andrew playing outside, and some other sundry items.

We’ve been making an effort to eat a little healthier and as part of that plan we have tried to eat more fish. After a number failed attempts to actually cook fish ourselves we have come to the conclusion that if we want to eat good fish we are just going to have to go out to get it. The other day we went to the Rockfish Seafood Grill a place we’ve been a couple times in the past that the kids like. The restaurant promotes itself as a casual neighborhood place and to promote that atmosphere it’s decorated like a fishing cabin.

Every aspect of the restaurant is done up in fishing cabin style. There are fake stuffed fish hanging on the walls with names and places of where they were “caught”, pictures of all varieties of boats, motor boats, sail boats, canoes, you name it, fishing rods, paddles, life jackets, you get the picture. Part way through the meal Alex had to go to the bathroom and even the bathrooms are done up in fishing cabin style, including the signs indicating which is the men’s and women’s room. I can’t stand when restaurants try to be all cutesy with their bathroom signs. “Roosters and Hens”, “Crepes and Tarts”, “Hogs and Heffers”, “Jams and Jellies”, “Stag and Doe”, insane. I always have this moment of panic when I open the door that I’ve made the wrong choice and I’m about he walk into the women’s restroom.

Sticking to the fishing cabin theme our neighborhood fish restaurant has the bathrooms labeled “Inboards and Outboards”. Easy enough to figure out but then Alex got curious. “Why does the boys bathroom say outboards and the girls bathroom say inboards?” My mind has never gone blank so quickly as it did in that moment. I had absolutely nothing to respond with. The best I managed to come up with after about 30 seconds of humming around was “well inboards and outboards are opposites, just like boys and girls are opposite.” I don’t think he bought it.