5/23/2010

Papa made some fancy dinner for friends that came over tonight, but we didn't have to eat anything but the potatoes. Why would we want to eat Copper river salmon bbqed on a piece of wood? If we wanted to eat dead animals cooked on dead trees, we'd say so. And no, we don't want any of those bbqed vegetables either. Do we look like we eat vegetables? You're darn tootin' we don't! No Rosemary bread? We're suing. We don't care for your hummous or so called magic salad either, so stop asking us if we want any--we don't. Just leave those roasted potatoes right here, and step away with your hands where we can see them.

Willie was over at a friends for a sleepover (why do they call them sleepovers when nobody gets any sleep?) so I (Teddy) got to make the waffles, serve the waffles, and eat the waffles, without any competition. It was glorious. I did still have to go hebrew school this morning, but it was my last time until some time in September--hooray!

I (Teddy) was also busy all morning and afternoon Saturday with my science fair project--Resistance is Futile, but Resistors aren't. Me and Enzo from school were working on it for a long time, with some help from Willie and Mommy. It will be a little hard for kindergarteners to understand, but that's okay--they can ask questions and we'll explain to them, or maybe introduce them to the Borg--that'll take care of those pesky kindergarteners.

Willie had his eye appointment this week and he doesn't need new glasses. Papa is secretly thinking that this is because willie has stopped growing and that is why he doesn't need new glasses, but I think papa just doesn't want willie to be taller than him, which will happen in about 5 minutes, if it hasn't happened already.

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Who's going to help me make the waffle? Not me sez papa.

C'mon, are you sure you don't want to help me? it's gloopy and gloppy!

Who's going to help me eat the waffle? Me me me me, says papa!

Wrong--I'll eat 'em myself! Except the ones I can't finish, those Mommy gets to eat because she helped make the batter. You just stayed in bed during waffle making and expected to get some at the last minute when you came down for breakfast--I don't think so.

Copyright 1997-2010, The Berman Brothers, Willie and Teddy. All rights reserved.

5/16/2010

No more Tuesday hebrew school! Well, just for this year for both of us, and for me (Willie) no more Tuesday hebrew school forever--hooray! Just one more perk of being recently admitted as an adult in the tribe. We celebrated by having curry for dinner--okay, we have curry every Tuesday after...hebrew...school. EGAD! Does this mean we don't get curry if there isn't any hebrew school? We want Tuesday hebrew school again. Waaaaaa!

We had a Lord of the Rings mini marathon this weekend--we saw all of the extended Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers. This time the viewing was enhanced by yellow 'penalty' flags that we threw at the TV whenever Arwen was on screen at an inappropriate (not in the book) time, which was often. Peter Jackson was the most penalized director of the day. We did hear one Willhelm scream loud and clear during the Helm's deep battle. That made it all worth it.

Papa was making a marbled chocolate cheesecake at the shul this morning for the shavuot cheesecake competition and he tried to get Nabisco famous chocolate wafers to use as the crust, and they don't have a hecksher! How could that be--even Oreo's have an O-U hecksher now. Anyway, he got Oreos and scraped the tasty filling out of them to use as the crust. He then brought home the extra Oreos and scraped fillings home so we could make our own double and triple stuf cookies. Mmmmmm.

Houseguest Mike was very helpful in helping mommy find her new phone number. Ask her what it is, and maybe she'll give it to you so you can wonder at the tremendousness of it. Thanks Houseguest Mike--come visit!

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Hey Teddy, your aura is showing, and your epidermis. I just thought this picture of Teddy was cool. He took one of me, but he deleted it cuz it was supposedly no good. Sure.

Papa the slave driver has us doing burpees every afternoon. We've got to do sets of 10, then 9, 8, 7...down to 1. It's 55 in all. Teddy is the fastest and Papa is the fattest, I mean the slowest, and I'm somewhere in between. The strangest part is that we don't even complain about it anymore, and we've been doing them for like 6 days. I did learn that it's a lot easier to do burpees on the carpet down the basement bedroom than on the hard wood floors. Youch.

5/9/2010

The big underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) competition was this past weekend. I (Willie) was the driver of the ROV on the first task of picking up a bunch of stuff from the bottom of a swimming pool, and I did really well at it. We ended up finishing out 9th because of some tangles and twists, but we'll get em next year. My friends Alexander, Aidan, and Rhys were also on the team--Rhys' dad is an engineer and he helped us design and build the ROV. I already have some ideas for next year's model and I was drawing up sketches today and making a shopping list for the additional components we'll need.

Grandma and Grandpa went home so now we can't go up to the other house for chocolate milk and cream puffs. Oh well, we'll just have to smuggle extra sugar into our rooms to get our fixes.

I (Teddy) have been working on a science fair entry about resistors--resistance is futile--with my classmate Enzo. Today we did a bunch of research and we're almost ready to start putting our exhibit together. I think I'd like to wear a Borg costume but that might scare the 1st graders and kindergarteners too much. Too bad--they'd remember resistors better if they were terrified of them I say.

We've been reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I say reading because we're actually listening to the audio book narrated by Stephen Fry (the guy that played Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster). So far it's really funny, and slightly inappropriate, but it's got loads of techno-jargon and is giving me (Willie) some wicked ideas for my next space ships. It kind of turns my Star Trek universe on its ear, but that's okay, it's broadening my horizons. Ya, that's the ticket.

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Gimme more cream puffs. MORE cream puffs. MORE CREAM puffs. MORE CREAM PUFFS!!!! Loud enough for you?

At least we have something to look forward to next trip. Now everybody knows the way to our hearts is through cream puffs, or cream puffs is the way to our hearts, or the way our hearts will clog up is through cream puffs. Oh forget it.

Of course adding a whipped cream shell to the cream puff never hurt anybody, especially one so innocent and angelic and peaceable as me.

Hmmm, I seem to be forgetting something. Lets see, cream puff? Check. Whipped cream? Check. Chocolate sauce? Ch---WHERE the *@#* is my CHOCOLATE SAUCE? Somebody's gonna get fired for this...

Chocolate sauce? Check. That was a close one, dad. Just remember, you can be replaced. Forgot the chocolate sauce, of all the hairbrained unkempt weaselly things to do. Humph. Leave me alone so I can enjoy my cream puff, finally.

Is this thing on? Okay, and now to drive this ROV thing. Aidan was the guider and Alexander was the tether minder. Both of them were constantly shouting instructions at me, but I mostly ignored them--it was best for everybody.

It's just lucky Aidan didn't end up in the pool because that would have been instant disqualification. Now quit backseat driving and lemme concentrate for land's sake. Now I know how my parents feel when they're trying to drive.

Copyright © 1997-2010 The Berman Brothers--Willie and Teddy. All rights reserved.

5/2/2010

Happy 13th (English) birthday to me (Willie)! I got bi-color mousse cake like I asked for, and for some reason Mommy and Papa listened to me when I said that it would be okay to make the bottom layer (the marquisse) with 72% chocolate. Everybody liked it, but I prefered the top layer which is regular milk chocolate mousse. Speaking of birthday cakes, I liked Mommy's probably better than mine--chocolate chip coffee ice cream. Actually papa pulled a fast one on us and got frozen yogurt, but it tasted fine, and we've all had multiple helpings.


I (Teddy) have been beating Grandma at scrabble--I got half of the triple word score boxes (with words like wax and kit) and I've gotten most of the triple letter scores also and I made a quote that should go in the history books: In the spaces where there are no triple word scores, double word scores, triple letter scores, and double letter scores, it should say single word or single letter score. This should go in history books because it is the ultimate statment of the obvious.

I (Willie) made up a new rhyme: Ring around the mother board, a pocket full of logic, zero one, zero one, we all shut down.

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We finally found a deck of magic cards that we had thought we lost for a couple years.

Hmmmm, I wonder what's going to happen next. Lets see, dinner is done, comic books are open, papa is lighting a candle and walking this direction...

I know (sez Teddy), you'll grow bunny ears!

Then you'll be attacked by Snuff--tear his face off Snuff!

Listen up you bears, one more wrong move out of you and you'll get no you-know-what. So be good for goodness sake.

Oh ho! The moment many of the royal We have been waiting for--wishes--now to blow out the candle...

Well I thought I got it the first time but that darn Papa gave me a self relighting candle. Grrrr.

Mmmmm, birthday cake, all for us...

This is my 3D sketchup drawing of the under water ROV thing my group is working on. Leave me alone while I work--you don't like people looking over your shoulder while you work, so scat!

Okay, you can look just this once, now SCRAM!

Heh heh, now I can finally complete my task of WORLD DOMINATION--ultimate power, yes!

Copyright © 1997-2010 The Berman Brothers--Willie and Teddy. All rights reserved.