Month: February 2011

It has been a veritable comedy of errors all week. No need to go into everything, but at least the car didn’t end up in a ditch or anything. Ha ha 😉

Ruby and Maxi have a doggie pal, Boba, who lives in the neighborhood. Boba used to be an only child until 4 months ago, Boba got a human little brother. Ever since then, Boba has had to learn to make do with fewer walks and not as much cuddle time. Sigh. The life of a big brother is hard.

Anyways last weekend, I got to babysit Boba (and his 4 month old baby brother) and I have to say that it was the easiest babysitting gig ever. I just put the baby in the crib at 6:30 and he slept peacefully for hours! Hours! So young and already so well behaved.

I spent the time untangling yarn that Maxi had gotten into.

And I relished the peace and absolute quiet in the house.

And I got these amazing Georgetown cupcakes in return! Oh, so good, especially the Oreo mint one. Just amazing.

Vince has an ear infection – I think one of the first ones ever. Our doctor’s appointment was yesterday at 11 and we drive by a KFC on the way there and he asked if we could eat at KFC for lunch on the way back. He has a fondness for KFC which stems from his formative years in Singapore where KFC is the dominate fast food restaurant because Asians prefer chicken over beef (aka McDonald’s).

I would not have known that Vince had an ear infection if he didn’t moan and complain about how much his ear hurt. I wonder how many of Edda’s ear infections I have missed because I couldn’t tell what was wrong. Probably a handful. 🙁

Jeremy needed a head shot for something or other, so I snapped some photos of him. He pulled out all his weird glasses and suits and ties. I like the photos of him looking down and away – but those aren’t the ones that he’s going to use.

I don’t know when he decided to get these glasses – I think they are lab glasses and explosion proof.

It’s been a quiet weekend here, most everyone has a version of the cold Edda had last week – and so we are trying to go to sleep early and drink lots of fluids. Jeremy turned the heat up in the house so we are all toasty and hopefully we’ll all be asleep before the end of the third quarter for the Super Bowl.

Of course, even though we are all a little sick, we still need to get food, so here we are at Trader Joe’s picking up supplies for the week –

I always think I need another plant, but I resist and tell myself that I don’t need an extra thing to take care of in the house:

Although I am curious about this jasmine plant:

Jeremy is doing a presentation in which he makes and analogy about how far telecommunications has come in the past 50 years vs the innovation of the car engine. While we were at my parents’ house celebrating Chinese New Year, he borrowed an old rotary phone from my parents to use as a prop in his presentation – I think it’s the one I used to call all my girlfriends in high school. I think most people in the late 90s had moved on to those press-button princess phones, but my family, we are old skool.

We still have a land line going to the house, although I’m not sure I should call it a land line as it is an internet phone. I was totally sure that the rotary phone would not work on the house line, because I figured if you are with it enough to set up an internet phone line, I figured they would know you probably would have upgraded from the rotary phone.

But lo and behold! Jeremy called our cell phone from the rotary phone no problem. He asked how the sound quality was, I told him he sounded like he was from 1985.

Happy Chinese New Year. It’s the year of the Rabbit!

Be sure to set off some fireworks!

Rena & I were in Egypt for 10 days just 3 weeks ago. We are not surprise at all that the current government is in trouble and the ordinary Egyptians are demanding to have a better government installed asap.

Vince has been both lucky and unlucky in friends. He’s been lucky as he’s had a bunch of really nice best friends in kindergarten, first and second grades. He’s been unlucky because his best friends have a habit of moving away. Luckily for us, his best pal from second grade moved only 45 minutes away from us, so we get to get together every few months or so.

I found out at Vince and D’s last sleepover that D’s mom is a huge snowboarding fan and that she’s been having trouble convincing D to go out on the slopes. So we coordinated schedules and all headed out to White Tail Ski Resort last Saturday.

Playing DS on the way up to the resort:

Falling in our rental gear:

Getting ready for our first ski lesson which turned into a mini-fiasco, a bit of crying and wanting to go home:

But we lived through it! Vince got 3-4 runs down the bunny slope without too much trouble, but his stopping technique has a bit to be desired. I went down the bunny slope with him and was impressed with myself – I haven’t been skiing in over 15 years, but I managed to turn and stop. Of course, the next day I could barely move. Ugh.