Finally, the event you’ve all been waiting for, the unveiling of the Disney Pictures.  It will take some time to sift through it all since I think this sets a record for an mfdc picture montage with 10 pages and about 170 picutres.

We’re still here, it’s just been quite on the web front.  I had been working on getting the pictures from Disney together and I’m about half way there but that means I still have a bunch to go.  On top of that I’ve had all kinds of other stuff on the go so I haven’t been able to spend any time on it.

I did manage to get a number of the character pictures printed for Andrew.  We took an autograph book to Disney and whenever you meet the characters and get your picture taken with them you can also have them sign your autograph book.  We strategically got the characters to sign on every other page which left one side open for adding a picture of the kids with that character.  Andrew “really really really really wanted” (his words) to take the book to school to show his friends so that took priority.  He took it to school last week and the teacher let him get up in front of the class to talk about his trip and show everyone the pictures and signatures.  He’s very proud of this book.

He still loves to talk about the trip and all the things he did.  (Which is good since it was only a couple weeks ago.) This morning while I was driving him to school he asked me,

“Do you remember when we went to the the little village?”

For the life of me I just couldn’t figure out what he meant by little village so I had to ask what he meant.

“Which little village, I don’t remember the small village?”

“You know, the one that we had to ride the boat on.”

“Oh, you mean the Small World ride.”

“Ya, wasn’t that exciting!  Remember how all the people were singing?  And they had hyenas there too, but I didn’t like the hyenas because they were just laughing.”

I’ve been busy trying to get together the Disney pictures and so I haven’t really had time to work on anything else.

This year for Halloween Alex decided that he was going to be “Clone Trooper Rex” from Star Wars The Clone Wars. At the beginning of October we got a catalog in the mail and it had a bunch of costumes in it and he immediately zeroed in on Clone Trooper Rex. Andrew on the other had just couldn’t decide what he wanted to be. Every time you asked him he would would tell you something different. Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Yoda, you name it he came out with.

After the Disney trip we thought he might have something in mind but it was still the same. On the 30th Jen took Andrew to the store to to pick out something and before they left the house he had finally decided he wanted to be Darth Vader. (It seemed like an odd choice since at Disney when Darth Vader made an appearance he totally freaked out and jumped out of the stroller and into Jen’s arms.) When they got to the store they didn’t have any Darth Vader masks so that costume was out. (Jen wasn’t very disappointed out that.) After looking through the rest of the selection he decided on Peter Pan.

It was just about impossible to get them to stand still for the picture and most of the ones I have they are acting out their characters and generally being crazy before going out Trick or Treating so here you go.

Alex’s choice of being Clone Trooper Rex made of laugh a little. When I was eight or nine years old I went as Luke Skywalker in X-Wing Pilot uniform. Who would have thought that 25 years after I went as a Star Wars character my son would be going as the same thing.

Alex, Andrew, and I were playing in the back yard this afternoon running around, playing chase and tag, and the like, when I was finally worn out and needed to come in for a rest.  We were sitting down at the table eating our freezie pops when Andrew said,

“After a we finish these we can go outside for another couple of minutes.”

“No, I don’t think I’m going outside again, I’m pooped!”

“What?”

“I’m pooped.”

“In your pants?”

“No, not in my pants.”

About a month ago I set up Google Analytics for the blog portion of the web site to see what type of data it collected.  I’ve always been fascinated with seeing who is reading the web site even though most of the visitors are family but occasionally I end up getting some way ward surfer from Isreal or Poland who happens to stumble on the site.  One thing my current statistics didn’t give me was if people were coming to the site from a search engine what search terms were they using that pointed them to my site.  Except for the home page and the blog I have it set up so that search engines are not allowed to index the pages so I don’t really get a lot of random visitors.

So the other day it caugh my eye that “alex matisse” from Goole Image search was the top phrase directing people to the site.  I checked it out and the second image shown is from the post I did in May of Alex’s Matisse that he did in art class.