Willie
and Teddy's Excellent Adventure
We can't believe Mid-Winter break is over, how did it go so fast?? We think breaks should be longer and school weeks should be shorter.
We tried to stay in our pajamas the entire time and just play with our legos and Bionicles and occasional computer games, but lo and behold, sometimes other things just come up. Sometimes they are things we want to do -- like go to Science World, see the pictures! -- and sometimes they are things we have to do, like take a shower or eat a meal.
But also this week we have BOTH been working on Scratch (that we told you about last week). Teddy has worked on his first programs today, and Willie has been making improvements to some of his. We are learning this thing WAY faster than Mommy is, but every once in a while she comes up with a helpful hint or suggestion (thank you mommy) and Papa upgraded Teddy's computer so he could even run Scratch in the first place (thank you papa). We told Mommy and Papa we would try to be cooperative with each other about learning this program instead of competing with each other.
We actually went outdoors for a while yesterday and it was kind of fun, we have to admit. It's OK for a while anyway.
Mommy used a new-to-her cookie recipe for goodies for her singing group this week and papa said he thought they were store-bought. Apparently to some people this is an insult and to some people this is a compliment, but I'm not really sure which is which. When we got home from Science World late one night we had found she had started a really huge puzzle -- it says it is 1,000 pieces, we haven't counted for sure but Teddy and Mommy estimated around 950 by multiplying the number of pieces on one long edge by the number in one short edge, pretty tricky huh? But anyway the puzzle is still not quite finished, though it's getting close. We all help a little.
So after getting on the road at 7:00 am which meant that we had to wake up at 10 minutes to seven, and watching 3 hours of Looney Tunes and crossing an international border, we finally rolled up to SCIENCE WORLD for a full day of rock em sock em F-U-N!
No, we don't want to go it--we want to stand out here and just watch the Tower of Bauble forever.
Even More Contraptions are inside you say? Well then, what are we waiting for? Tally ho men and lead on. Blood and vinegar. Wot wot. Which is to say that this is the special attraction of Science world, although the bottomless pit of doom is certainly worth a look, and the other exhibits are always good for a laugh.
But at the end of the day, and the beginning and in between, this is where we choose to play and play and play.
And play some more. You should have seen how many blimps I made and then they all exploded and the then the guys were on springboards and the laser was firing. I guess you had to be there.
But now through the magic of youtube, you can be there--here it is in all of it's shaky and questionable glory.
Okay, there are other things to do at Science World as you all know, and we did do them, contrary to the misguided impression put forth by the webmaster.
We even ate, twice. One of the great things about Costco in Canada is that they have chicken strips and fries at the cafe. But they don't have plain cheese pizza--what's the deal with that?
Three other comments about Costco in the great white north--their prices are higher than the USA, even though Canadian money is worth more than ours. They offer the french fries with gravy or poutine--what the heck is poutine? They have the metric system in Canada yet the pizza is 18 inches and the pop is 20 ounces--what's a Canadian to do? UPDATE: According to wikipedia, poutine is a quintessential Canadian comfort food consisting of French fries topped with fresh cheese curds and covered with gravy. We'll stick to plain, thank you.
Take the picture already so I can get back to my Scratch program.
Check out my Anti-Brain-Freeze cap. An absolutely essential item if one is going to eat ice cream for snack.
Ice cream for snack? Who ever heard of such of a thing. Preposterous. Outlandish. Yummy!
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So, which Home Alone movie are they on now? 17 or something like that? What, whatever one they're on, I'm ready for my casting call for Home Alone 18--Ants in the Pants.
This rotten child actor has nuthin on me.
Papa was stabbing around my mouth with that tree-sized Stim-u-dent and next thing I knew, one of my molars was hanging by a thread and he just went and yanked it out. I'm never letting that guy near my mouth again. And to add insult to injury, I hid my tooth from the tooth fairy (who I suspect is Papa), and the tooth fairy didn't take my tooth or leave any money. Bah! Sorry for the bloody spit picture, but you've got to document this stuff properly.
Teddy and Mommy had a marathon game of Monopoly on Sunday. Teddy had Boardwalk and Park Place and both of them had so much money from endless circling the board that they agreed that double hotels would be acceptable, and that's when it happened--Mommy landed on Park Place ($3500 rent) and then she rolled snake-eyes and landed on Boardwalk ($4000 rent) and even that didn't quite bankrupt her, but her next time round the board--BAM--Boardwalk again, GAME OVER!
Hey papa, where's my $2.50 for my haircut! Where's the top of my head? So I got home the other day itching the side of my head, and papa got suspicious and good thing too because when he started looking closely there were little guys with legs camped out in my hair, so we went to the downstairs bathroom and bzzzzzz, bzzzzzzz, bbbzzzzzzzz, there went my hair. Then out came the really super fine lice combs and now I think I don't have lousey hair anymore.
Side view: it's short. But you know what? It grows. I'm just sad that it didn't get quite long enough for a pony tail.
Did you know that you can make a arrowheads for target practice from the tops of spaghetti-o's cans or from the top of baked beans cans? I was wondering if you can make from the tops of chili beans cans too because I want to get in on some of that bow and arrow stuff. 
Okay, so here's the deal. Teddy came home with lice, and what does papa do? Cuts my hair too. What's the big idea? Actually I didn't mind, my hair was getting really long and hard to get a comb through, but this checking for bugs with those really small combs is really a drag. Cut it out already!
What a ripoff! It snowed on a vacation day, so we didn't get a day off from school. We want a raincheck!
Well that snow just means that we can stay in our pajamas all day. All week maybe. Aw snap---we've still got school.
Preview of things to come--my first prom fer instance.
Carmen Miranda? Anybody? No? Crash absorbant helmet? No? Pillow on me noggin?
Uuuuugggghhhh, I can't believe I ate sooooo many potato chips--never again. Too much soda, uuuuuggggghhhhh!
Matzoh is the new chicken soup--I feel better all ready.
I'm not sleeping tonight after my whole can of pepsi with sugar all to myself. Mmmm, I can still feel it tingling inside me and my fingers are tapping and I just keep smiling and bouncing. Must. Have. More.