Nice Cake

We had neighbors over for chinese food tonight. One of the fortunes from our fortune cookies read (no lie) "A nice cake is waiting for you."

So we had fun adding the obiligatory "in bed" at the end, which allowed the fortune to make a little more sense :-)

One friend preferred the 'nice cake' to be a biscuit....i liked it being a muffin....and we thought it could be a cupcake or TastyKake, too.

What do you make of this fortune? What EXACTLY is a 'nice cake'? And how would one know when they are 'experiencing' a 'nice cake'?

Not done yet....we were also wondering if asian people even EAT cake? or cheese?

Banner Day

Yesterday was one of the best days we've experienced with Baby Girl, as far as behavior goes.

We ate at a restaurant for lunch and she sat very well, ate all her mac n cheese, colored on her kids menu, and was generally very pleasant.

She helped pick up toys.

She put on jammies without me asking her.

I told Kerrfunk that we musta been doing SOMETHING right the past 4 years! Or, we just happened to have a day when we were ALL on the same wavelength, which only happens as often as solar eclipses.

Guess we're approaching the 'parent-pleasing' years (ages 5-12ish)....then we go back to the fight for independence we experience from ages 2-4. But next time round....she'll be a teenager.

What's the number for that boarding school again?

Kerrfunk has an uncanny knack of defiling some of my favorite foods...simply with the descriptive words he uses for the foods.

Examples so far:

"Look at the VEIN of chocolate in that ice cream!" (okay, never never use the words vein and chocolate in the same sentence again, please!)

and most recently....

"I'm gonna eat the blister off of that cookie." (WHAT??? he's referring to an extra bit of dough attached to the cookie.)

Surely you can understand my disgust!!!

Huh.

Baby Girl had a good question tonight.

She asked me how mermaids go to the bathroom.

I guessed that they must go potty like fish. There must be a hole somewhere.

D'oh!!

1970s Rofo Reference

Click this link for the reference to Rofo being, essentially, stuck in the 70s.

http://cbs3.com/video/?id=49025@kyw.dayport.com

Big-time Hollywood in current day 1970s Rofo

So, filming has been taking place in Rofo for Lovely Bones starring Mark Wahlberg. It's due for release in Spring 2009.

You can see evidence of filming with the blue Genie lifts...and mega-watt lights.

Also, the Christmas decorations are part of the movie, too. If you look closely at the photo, you can see the candle decoration (on right side of photo) and the star/bell garland strung across the street. These are VINTAGE decorations brought in for the movie. They've all been removed today.

Stuff like this doesn't happen much in IOWA!!

She's turning into a New Yorker...or IS she?

Took Baby Girl to New York the other day and she fit right in. Notice her gesture in the pictures below!!




Actually she cut her finger and wanted a Band-Aid. But we thought it was funny!!