Leah’s Crayon Diary

After the last post, plain old audio, you probably craved a little video.  Well, so did Leah, who asked to record a video diary before she went to bed.  What could it be that she so fervently wished to share with you?  Watch and find out!

http://is.gd/1lV4v

Great Island

Stop #2 (actually it was #1) on the near-Wellfeet-beaches tour of Cape Cod.  This one isn’t particularly Romantic.  Includes port-o-potty, map, sign posts.  Somewhere nearby was once a tavern, etc.  This film created by Sarah!

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

Hiking on Great Island.

Head of the Meadow Beach

O Pioneers!  A short film chronicling a of Cape Cod beaches on a grey & windy Saturday in early June.  If you like that Romantic tendency to stand on the rocky edge of England and watch waves pound ceaselessly, you might like this.  Includes running, stick-throwing-in-water, a map, reference to a fish.

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

Leah just prior to beach excursion.

My Last Name is Volcano

Yesterday Leah and Isaac published their first book, a compilation of the quotes we’ve posted here over the last few months, called My Last Name Is Volcano.  (The title comes from one of the quotes).  Their words are more fun to read in book format.  For more information, visit the publisher’s page:

http://www.leastshiningcrescent.com/2009/06/new-publications.html

Our Book Cover. Might Look Familiar . . .

Lots of Recent Leah Quotes

Leah would like to share a few ideas with you, too.

• We’re not going to school because it’s yucky. Stinks.
• You needa tickle me when I poke you. Poke.
• Put something in and mix, mix, mix, then you have whipped cream and we all had a lick then stir, stir, stir, then put in some water.
• Hello, Isaac, what are you doing? Good bye! Hello, Isaac, why are you sleeping like that with your froggy wavy tails? Good bye!
• What about the TInkertoys box? It goes higher than the sky? Are you typing that in, Papa?
• The kitty-cat mask I wanna wear sometimes. Are you typing that in?
• Jenna just plays by herself sometimes. Sometimes with me too. Are you typing that in?
• I wish I could dance like that.  Maybe I don’t wanna dance like that.
• I see a boy with a pony tail. Papa, one day you were having a shirt on and you were wearing a pony tail without glasses. He has glasses.
• Sometimes you be mad, Papa.
• Why do you want to rub my head? Because it smells so good?
• Leah’s bird has a mad eye because he’s bad. But a liitle bit he’s good. He has sad inside his body. No, goodness.
• You guys made me do a lot. I like to do a lot.
• Smell my hair, it smells like dinner.
• If you make fun of the people who are in our stage you have to leave our stage.
• If you want some cake you need to come to my birthday and ask your mom and do things.
• Papa, you need to be quiet because we’re on the stage and the lights are off. But you can open your eyes. And turn your things off.
• I’m a bag. A bag with a face.
• There’s jellyfish under this tunnel so someone needs to put their foot behind so you can not get out.
• Girl eyes can only go up and down, up and down. That’s what I said.
• I’m not Leah, I’m Superstar.  Superstar can do anything. When there’s an emergency, Superstar can skip faster.
• I didn’t feel my teeth crunching on the chips. I knew I needed to be crunching on the chips but when I looked Isaac had them.
• We wrote a letter to Isaac and Oakes and the color is purple.
• Can we race down there and come back here? Can we really do that? Can we?
• When I’m 12, can I eat gum?
• Earwax. Yuck. It smells like numbers.
• Lops are like raindrops only they have tails and backs like a leaf. Like a monkey only smaller.
• Isaac, this is like a kooky-looking, kooky-kooky-kooky looking car. It’s so kooky looking.
• It’s loud. I’m gonna do a not loud. Is this loud?
• I go to the Apple Store, but something’s funny: no apples, only iPhones!

Leah having a scone and thinking about what to say next.

Mother’s Day Pictures

Pictures fresh from Mother’s day.  Includes coffee at Peet’s and goofing around in Harvard Square.  Mucho chasing of Pigeons.  Enjoy!
http://tinyurl.com/puzfeq

Isaac at Peet's Coffee.

Batgirl at Brandeis

We had an opportunity today to follow Batgirl as she made her rounds on the campus of Brandeis University.  Probably drawn there by the criminal element that associates with the annual Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.  An excerpt of our investigative report available below; warning: be prepared for superhero-like behaviors!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsHCUI6F6slink

Batgirl defends our memory of Justice Brandeis

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

Flat Leah and Flat Isaac

Well the curse of Flat Stanley, to which Nainai and Don succumbed last Sunday, has promulgated itself in Cambridge.  Oh, suffer to look and be horrified as Leah and Isaac become flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juo_s4LTgc8

Leah and Isaac visit Flatland

Printemps Promenade

Well, it’s Spring, sort of, and so that means we walk around the neighborhood and take pictures of things, which we present to you as a Flickr photo slide show.  Eggs, old restaurant statues, trash cans, cake, people, jumping, running, etc.   The nice gentleman who lets us look at the ceramic sun?  His name is Ed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157616343870406/show/

 

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry!