Just posted some pictures from the Fall Campout that Alex and I did with his Scout Troop. You can find them here.
Messing with my Son
Conversation that I had tonight with Alex through the bathroom door.
Alex: Dad!!!
10 seconds later.
Alex: Dad!!!!
Me: I’m coming hang on.
I get to the bathroom
Me: What?
Alex: Can you get me a new roll of toilet paper, we ran out.
Me: Ah, no, we don’t have any left.
Alex: But what am I supposed to do?
Me: Use your hand, just wash it off when you get out.
With absolute horror in his voice
Alex: But, but, ….. but, I’ve gone….
That’s when I let him off the hook and opened the door and threw him a new roll.
1st Day of School
Summer is over for another year and the boys returned to school this morning. I’m pretty sure if you asked them they would tell you that they had a great summer but it wasn’t long enough. When you were a kid was summer holiday ever long enough?
We all walked over to the school this morning and even Caroline insisted on having her own backpack. It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of another school year.
Why do Superheros Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?
Tonight when I came home for work Alex asked me “Hey Dad, why do Superheros wear their underwear on the outside?” And you know what, I had absolutely no idea what to say.
“Well, it’s because, um, well you see, um…..I don’t know.”
I turned to the great Google tonight and apparently I’m not the only one out there asking the question as it’s the top suggestion.
Unfortunately, none of the links lead anywhere worthwhile.
I mean, think about this, your a superhero designing your costume. You have super strength, x-ray vision, unbreakable bones or what have you and the best you can come up with for your superhero costume is tights, underwear on the outside, and maybe a cape thrown in there for good measure. What purpose do the underwear serve? What fashion statement are they trying to make?
I don’t have any nifty theories of my own but quite possibly Mel Brooks summed it up the best,
We may look like pansies, but don’t get us wrong or else we’ll put out your lights.
We’re men, we’re men in tights (TIGHT tights),
Always on guard defending the people’s rights.
When you’re in a fix just call for the men in tights!
Website Update
Once again I’ve been pretty lax in keeping the website updated. There has been all kinds of stuff going on but I’ve just been falling behind.
We kept our tradition of taking yearly pictures of the kids but with all the bad weather we had around Caroline’s birthday we ended up taking her pictures a little late. In fact we didn’t get around to it until May so we just did everyone’s pictures on the same day. This worked out really well since we were able to take a bunch of group pictures that we’ve never done before.I think the group shots turned our really nice and we’ll probably try and do those every year.
Here are the links to the individual picture pages.
Right after the kids got out of school Jen drove with them to Watercolor Florida like we did last year to vacation with her family. Unfortunately I had a conference I needed to attend for work during that same week so I was only able to join them on the last day. Even though it was only for the day it was still fun and on the way back we stopped in to visit the USS Alabama battleship in Mobile Bay.
Then last weekend we surprised the kids with a trip to Sea World San Antonio. Over the summer Jen has been doing a “theme of the week” activity with the kids. The week they started piano lessons they had a music themed activity they did each day. The week before Sea World they were doing water animal themed activities. On Thursday I came home from work early and we surprised them with the trip. I wish I had a picture of Andrew’s face when he made the connection that we were going to be leaving right now, not in a couple of days, he looked like he was going to explode with excitement. Unfortunately we’ve now set the bar really high on surprises and I’m not sure we can top it.
My Dignity for a Free Meal
I’m sure Jen is going to post on this next week but if you’ve been paying attention Friday was “Cow Appreciation Day” at Chick-fil-a. Show up dressed in a cow costume and you get a free meal.
Jen and the kids did this event last year for lunch but this year we were doing it for dinner so I had the pleasure of being able to get dressed up. I really hate this kind of stuff but Jen just told me to suck it up and don’t worry, no one will notice you.
We entered the restaurant and so much for not being noticed. One of the managers was checking out everyone’s costume as we came in and was taking pictures to post on their facebook page.
So here you go, from the “Raving Fans of Chick-fil-a Allen” facebook page. Hey, we got 5 free meals.
Raving Fans of Chick-fil-a of Allen
Update Your Computer Software
I’m sounding like a broken record but if you run any of the following software it’s time to upgrade. Lots of security vulnerabilities patched.
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Reader
- Java
I’ve gotten tired writing the instructions over and over so I’ve summarized stuff on this page:
Website Updated
It’s been a really long time since I’ve updated the website with any pictures. Looking back the last update was the pictures from Andrew’s spring baseball back in March. I finally sat down and started working through the backlog and uploaded a bunch of new stuff.
- In February we celebrated Caroline’s 2nd birthday. Since Jen was on bed rest at the time things were a little toned down and in fact the day of the party she started to get sick too.
- Alex played spring lacrosse this year. He was back with the Frisco team that he played with in the fall and played with a bunch of the same kids. He had a good season and managed to score a bunch of goals.
- Andrew did spring soccer with the Lizards, the team he has been on for the last couple of years. Like the previous season he was a defensive machine and even played goalie a couple of times.
- At the end of March Auntie D and Cousin Corey came for a visit. We were sad that Uncle Doug couldn’t make the trip as well but we managed to have a great time anyway. It was lots of fun to see how much Corey had grow since we had seen him last and the cousins had lots of fun playing together.
- Next up Alex had his birthday party. This year it was a Lego theme and we took all the kids to the new Lego Discovery Land center.
- We had Andrew’s birthday party next and he too wanted to have a Lego theme. That was two Lego figure cakes to make within a couple of weeks for Jen and as always she did a super job.
Enjoy.
Never Ending….Update your Flash Player
It was only a couple weeks back I posted about needing to update your flash player.
Well, a new version was just released a couple of days ago and if you haven’t updated then I would advise you to do it since this update fixes a number of security flaws.
Here’s the post and instructions from last time.
Finished Another Lacrosse Season
Last weekend we finished up another lacrosse season. When I get the chance I’ll post some pictures I took during the year but until then I thought I would post his official picture.
