Willie
and Teddy's Excellent Adventure
As you must all be aware, today was the last day of Winter Break.* Barring a last-minute snowstorm, we're back in the school saddle tomorrow morning. (Mommy would make a bad, outdated pun at this point, something along the lines of "back in the saddle shoes again" but we wouldn't think it was funny.)
*Secret note: Some people would say it really WASN'T a winter break day, since we had to go to Sunday School, but I, Willie, at least, thought it was a good practice for the real thing, well, especially since I got to rush right off to a great birthday party right from there, and eat three pieces of pizza and...for the first time ever...Hostess Ding Dongs, yummm!
But back to talking about Winter Break. We did not drink wine on New Years Eve, as was desired and requested, but we did have Martinelli's for New Years Day Morning, and we think that is one of our favorite new fizzy drinks, though of course it's always the most fun to put several flavors together, everyone knows that. And yes, folks, we did stay up until midnight, even though our parents were drooping badly. Sometimes even Star Trek is not enough to, um, energize people. In fact, Mommy falls asleep more during Star Trek episodes than any other time except maybe during reading.
Speaking of Star Trek, we become more and more addicted (and knowledgeable) with each passing day. Today we wanted to find the exact dimensions of the USS Enterprise, and we looked on the internet and found SO MUCH STUFF, we got to take online tours of the ships, and see a Borg cube, and all kinds of stuff. This is so much fun!
We have also discovered that we have not one, but TWO Bloom County books, so now maybe we won't have to fight over them!
During this last week we also realized we had been cooped up for like forever, so we wanted to start getting out more. Teddy in particular wanted a change of pace, so...we took a ferry to Bainbridge Island and saw our friends there, took a walk, went on a dock, bought a lot of candy (you wouldn't believe how much candy they have over there!) and had lunch at a fancy restaurant with good fries. It was quite an afternoon.
We also saw performing pigs and that was pretty funny, especially since we had just finished reading Charlotte's Web, and Teddy said that the pig we saw, Nellie, could not have been the world's most famous pig even if she WAS on the David Letterman show, because Wilbur was the most famous pig. Piggy rivalries! Please note, if you look at this web site, that "The Duchess of Pork" did not perform this day, rather it was a different pig named Petunia Pancake ("Pancake" added to her original name when her people found out she always smelled like maple syrup!). We also saw a new pig, only eight weeks old, about the size of a guinea pig, her name is Peanut and she could already do one trick (dance and jump in the air).
Mommy finished the sweater she made for Marissa (sssh -- don't tell) and, well, you'll see what happened to it. Papa sort of finished the bathroom, though if we know our parents they will be fussing about it for a long time yet. Yeah, yeah, of course, yawn, yes, there will be pictures.
Mmmmmm, marshmallows. But now, I (willie) have found something even BETTER! DING DONGS! Why was I never informed that these existed. You owe me 10 1/2 years worth of Ding Dongs!
Photographic evidence: we got out during winter break, barely.
We took a ferry to Bainbridge Island to visit our friends Halle and Larsen.
And to eat huge hamburgers.
And to get all lovey dovey. To love you, to kiss you...
LET ME OUT OF HERE! How does this window open. Can I swim?
Here's Halle and Larsen.
And check out my goofy glasses. I couldn't buy them because they weren't the right prescription.
Ho hum, just eating my gum--whoa, what the...where did willie come from? (Good work Scotty, now beam Teddy up, but leave the gum for me!)
More work on our bionicle bucket. I (willie) managed to make a starship enterprise replica out of bionicle parts, only it is black instead of dirty--looks more sleek in my opinion.
We are always showing Mommy the things we are creating, so she showed me the thing she has been creating--a sweater for cousin Marissa (formerly and still familiarily known as the noisy baby). Of course I had to try it on first, just to make sure it would fit and stuff.
Now according to Bloom County, the way to hunt liberals is to shout out things like 'socialized medicine' and 'gun control', and then KABLAMMERS--right between the eyes. Do you think Papa will fall for it? Probably!
Speaking of Papa, he said that they would be taking showers in the new bathroom last week--FALSE! Before he gave anybody a chance, he was working on the sink.
Nice, but isn't it missing something?
That's better. Kind of hard to turn on the other way.
Anyway, as I was saying, right after he finished the sink, up went the masking, and look look look, what's this? Mommy is working in the bathroom? It's paint.
It's BLUE paint.
And what else? A medicine cabinet! So what the heck else do we need? A towel bar and doors on the big cabinet. That is all. Commence showering, and brushing teeth, and shaving, and other stuff. And no more pix of the bathroom. Thank you.
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