Isaac & Leah Putting Stickers on Bed

Well it isn’t that exciting.  Today.  But one day it may well be!  Here are three minutes of Leah and Isaac putting stickers on Leah’s bed.  Seen from the back.  Artful!

http://is.gd/1lPGi

This kind of looks like the stickers they use.

62grozier Podcast #63

Need an up-to-date dose of Leah and Isaac saying things about birthdays, cars, headbands, nonsensical stuff, and how they don’t or do like the computer?  Then tune in to episode #63 of the 62grozier podcast series.

http://tinyurl.com/ny5uz5

This is what it was like at the birthday party.

Magic Isaac and his Magic Towel

We are proud to present by popular demand famous illusionist Magic Isaac performing, for the first time ever, his Magic Towel trick, in which a fleet of automobiles is made to appear and then disappear as if by magic, to thundrous applause.  Rational people, alert, you may after seeing this begin to believe again in the occult, as do we.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQeiNAJN6b0

Magic Isaac off-duty

Recent Quotes from Isaac and Leah

For your pleasure, a selection of choice quotes from Leah and Isaac over the last few weeks.  There’s more where this came from.

Leah:

• All of these cars are allergic and there’s a monster coming.
• Superman!   Get off the computer! OK, don’t get off the computer.  Bye!
• The little kids are coming in your room to bite you.
• Everybody needs to come over and say “I don’t like you.”
• Pokey things are danger.
• You are not a ghost but it’s danger in here.
• Every night if the storm blows off a tire then we need to fix it every day.

Isaac:

• Sometimes I nudge. I’m just called the nudger.
• He has 3 smokestacks. That’s a lot of smokestacks.
• That’s where the driver sits.  And that’s where the Princesses sit.
• I don’t want Papa to drive.
• The ghost car keeps driving everywhere.  It keeps pushin’ cars and mushin’ cars.
• I don’t like to eat haunted jelly because it belongs to ghosts.  And ghosts like it because it’s even spicer.
• Papa’s feet and my feet feel great!

Isaac and Leah chase pigeons on Mother's Day.

Blue Thunder and Rock Climbing

May 2, 2009 was a great day.  We won a chance to go for a ride in a race car named “Blue Thunder,” we finished a puzzle, we got some shoes, and we did a little rock climbing.  Join in the fun by clicking on the link below.  We did so much, really, more movies may have to follow.  We also created (we think) a soon-to-be-famous palindrome about human evolution, “E, not Stone” — but this wasn’t captured on film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFvK1SYf4c

Supplementary photos!  The following 5 or so photos chronicle additional activities of the day, including eating at Sechuan Gourmet, the Big Bad Bootery, and Sarah before a Cherry Tree.

http://picasaweb.google.com/wedaman/5208?pli=1&gsessionid=4FWRjYm-wdGDiy-MyKiihw#slideshow

A flowering she in front of a flowering tree.

Spring Fun

Well now it really is Spring.  Follow along via pictures on Google’s Picasa service as we get rid of the old cribs, put matchbox cars on an easel, point out our first tulip of the year, buy beer for Uncles Jim and Pete’s party, eat tater tots at Burger King, goof around downtown Belmont, see a burning van on the road, visit a yard sale, and throw balsa wood airplanes in the park!

http://picasaweb.google.com/wedaman/4259Web#slideshow

First stop on Leah's tour of Burger King

Quotes of the Day

• Leah: It’s daytime so Little Beary needs to wake up.  Little Beary is named Cherry.
• Isaac: Can I sleep on this Moumi?  Type in “little.”
• Leah: Get out of here, Isaac!
• Issac: But I’m doing my chomp!
• Leah: Isaac do you want some candy?  I have two kinds: chocolate or vanilla or chocolate or strawberry.
• Isaac: What are paws?
• Leah: No!  Isaac hit me with that ball right on the neck.
• Isaac: It was an accident.
• Leah: If you don’t have any you can’t go to the party.
• Isaac: I don’t want to go to the party.
• Leah: Everybody needs to go to the party.
• Isaac: I’m staying home with Papa.
• Leah: The sign says no balls at parties.  You can only dance at parties.
• Isaac: Is it gonna be a baby bear dance?
• Leah: Isaac, you need to be nice to me.
• Isaac: Oakes has gone to Gloucester.  A long time along I went inside Oakes’ house.  And I played with him and I played with his cars.  And I cleaned up.  And I came home.
• Leah:  I’m literally climbing the walls.
• Isaac: I heard my sister cough.
• Leah: There was a princess who got married and then she goed crazy (describing Lucia di Lammermoor).
• Isaac: I have a new drink and it’s orange juice and honey.
• Leah: Isaac, you’re breaking my car!  Are you fixing it?
• Isaac: I’m just checking it.
• Leah: But he’s fixing it and it’s already fixed.
• Isaac: I’m tired because I yawned.

Easter candy: not for the faint of heart.

More Flat Stanley

Two videos right from the scene of action in Western Missouri.  Be an eyewitness to two remarkable events:

1. Flat Stanley rides in a car on the mantle:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjmpMdF-yM 
2. Flat Stanley is Knighted (and so becomes Sir Stanley)
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiYXTtSL4UM
   

 

Patrick Williams defeats Dave and Rick at Risk in 1987

Flat Stanley

Here’s an update from Kansas City, where we’re visiting with Nainai and Don and our new friend Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley came to Nainai from cousin Tien and has been helping us sort through archived materials (!) in Nainai’s attic and put them in storage.  He’s also shared our meals, played with pets, and had a nap.

• Flat Stanley photo gallery:
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/wedaman1/sets/72157616600588094/show/
• Flat Stanley Storage Unit action video:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbS_q6DuWBE

Flat Stanley has a salad.

Speed Racer Podcast

62grozier Podcast Series Episode #57 now available.  Dubbed the “Speed Racer Podcast,” this episode finds Isaac elucidating the key points of the Speed Racer original cartoon, following a pict-o-gram list (not included) made in advance of the podcast.

http://web.me.com/wedaman1/62grozier_Podcasts/Media/62grozier57.m4a

Isaac racing across a field.