Holiday Spirit

Gordon sang with the choir in the Annual Creche Festival last weekend.

Hal enjoyed it quite a bit.

During each song, he would sometimes play with toys, and sometimes watch and listen to the singing, totally into it.

The best part, though, was at the end of each song, the audience would applaud, and Hal would grab his little Lace-Up Teddy Bear toy, and hold it up high, sometimes like a lighter at a concert (one-handed), other times like Lloyd Dobler on Say Anything (two-handed).

Every time! He would hold it constant throughout the applause, and only lower it when the room got quiet again. Sometimes he'd be playing and distracted when a song ended, and watching him scramble like crazy to find the toy and stand up quickly was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

bedtime

Who Had The Best Weather for Football?

I'll see your snow, and raise you to 34 degrees celsius.

Same shirt....its funny.

From the Annals of Lucy/Theo Conversations

(Theo leans across the backseat and lies across Lucy's lap)

Lucy: Theo, haven't you ever heard of a thing called personal space?
Theo: No, I haven't.
Lucy: Well, that's obvious. It's this area, around my body, and it belongs to me. You can't have it.
Theo: Well, can I rent it?
Lu: No you can't rent it- it's personal space!
Theo: Well, if you don't have enough, I could rent mine to YOU.
Lu: It doesn't work that way.
Theo: Sure it does, I'll sell you my personal space. For two dollars.
Lucy: I AM NOT PAYING YOU FOR YOUR PERSONAL SPACE.
Theo: Special for you, three dollars.
Lucy: Listen to what I'm saying. No. Way.
Theo: Well, how much for your personal space?
Lucy: My personal space does not have a price.
Theo: It's FREE?! So I can just take it after all!

Lu: No, it's priceless. It's the most valuable thing I own right now. So get off of my lap!

Boot to the Head

Lucy passed her Yellow Belt test in Tae Kwon Do last week. In keeping with family tradition (was it Beth that I kicked?) she also kicked her brother really hard in the chest, just to see if it works.

It does.

This Week

We found this instruction on a pack of joke chewing gum: "WARNING. Forbidder to affright ill and cowardly person."

I got to walk several blocks through downtown Bangkok at midday carrying a life-size cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan.

At one point this week I had 1,500 donuts in the trunk of my car.

I got a job offer, which is good except they want to pay me the same amount of money to work five days/week as I was making in one day/week in Atlanta. Hmmm.

Lucy got picked to carry the flag for the Americans at International Day at school. I got to eat at the International Day food court, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite events of the year.

Indonesia's table

Bahn mi, from the Vietnamese