Synopsis.

[porphyrin]

 

4/09/05:  SATURDAY

Steps:  Didn’t wear pedometer

Books read:  4

Abbreviated version:  11 hours in a car with Roo and the new DVD player, or ‘baby TV’.  Surprisingly good behavior on Roo’s part.

 

4/10/05:  SUNDAY

Steps:  7800

Books read:  1

Abbreviated version:  Roo dominating all three older boy-cousins, grandmother, grandfather, and great-grandmother all day long.  Parents escape for a long walk around Port Clinton, jeering at expensive ugly houses facing the Bay. Bald eagle spotted on property, eyeing Canada geese thoughtfully. Parentsw teach Roo how to cheer bald eagle on.

Highlight:  Roo trundling up with a wheelbarrow of sand.  “Here you go, here’s ice cream.  Now eat it!”

 

4/11/05:  MONDAY

Steps:  2800

Journals read:  3

Abbreviated version:  Roo ruling the roost, bossing around grandmother AND great-grandmother, and playing outside despite wind velocities sufficient to rattle the first-floor toilets within the (very well-built) house.  Muskrats seen:  3.  Egrets seen:  6    Bald eagles seen:  0  Blue herons seen:  1.  Travel to Ada that night.

Highlight:  Boat ride down the dredge cut to Sandusky Bay, where the three foot whitecaps were enough to convince us to take our little rowboat and equally puny outboard motor and turn back around. 

 

4/12/05:  TUESDAY

Steps:  6549

Journals read:  1

Books read:  0.5

Abbreviated version:  Morning spent in Findlay, Ohio at Meijer’s (this is High Entertainment, okay?) and then closing out the USX Credit Union account I’ve had since high school.  Afternoon spent trying (futilely) to persuade Roo to nap and talking with Mom and Dad.  Evening spent in a nice family meal; Elle came down from Columbus to stay for the next 24 hours.

Highlight:  Explaining to my mother that Omaha Steaks need to be frozen within their air-tight little sealie bag dealies, and watching denial slowly melt into horrified awe.

 

4/13/05:  WEDNESDAY

Steps:  Didn’t wear pedometer

Journals read:  1

Abbreviated version:  Morning spent in Lima, Ohio with Mom and Elle, getting new tires on the car and the alignment straightened.  Afternoon spent walking around campus with Elle, and visiting the birds and snakes at the little University greenhouse.  Dinner with Pastor Warren and two old family friends, Jeff & Leah, and their son Ben.

Highlight:  Jeff and Mike skidding into the kitchen where Leah, Mom, and I are talking and exclaiming, “We can’t control them, can you come quick?!”  (The toddlers were bouncing the globe like a basketball, and had strewn pennies and arrowheads all over the floor.)

 

4/14/05:  THURSDAY

Steps:  2577

Books read:  2.5

Abbreviated version:  12 hours in a car with Roo and the Baby Einstein:  Baby DaVinci DVD.  Bad Fazoli’s, heartburn, and lots of hollering at TV from Roo.

Highlights:  “Roo, I thought we made this very clear:  no medieval weapons in the car.”  Also:  the barrel part of a Barrel of Monkeys toy threatening to EAT YOU ALL, MUAHAHAHA, and the monkeys running away and hiding in Roo’s carseat.

Comments

[greykev.livejournal.com]

the barrel part of a Barrel of Monkeys toy threatening to EAT YOU ALL, MUAHAHAHA

Your kid rocks. And you rock too, but carnivorous barrels? Priceless.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

I woke up from a dozy little nap in the car to hear:

"AH HAH HAR, I EAT YOU ALL!" (Roo growly voice)

"Eeee! No! Not eat us ALL! Run away!" (Roo squeaky voice)

"HAH HAH HAR, I GOT YOU!" (Roo growly voice)

"He'p me! He'p me!" (Roo squeaky voice)

It was very disorienting.

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Hey, a morning at Meijer is high quality entertainment around here too... :)

Truthfully, I know people who start their day-after-thanksgiving Christmas shopping at Meijer at 5AM, and don't leave until at least 9AM. 'Cause it's Meijer!!