More wee Cape Cod videos

A cornucopia of Cape Cod video clips.  Note: it was windy.

Watching the sunset over Wellfleet Harbor from the rental rooftop deck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7HYq4LUJkc

Windy First Encounter Beach (alert: reduce volume): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqC2BAPVkv8

Frolic on southern tip of Great Island, Wellfleet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1oUzQD1ZM&feature=channel

More of above.  Great Island.  Windy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHf2bKgpCM

Watching an educational video on Cape Cod with subtitles at Visitor’s Center, Salt Pond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypOM9mI6MRk

Leah finds a Teepee in a Marsh in Wellfleet.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddHAikdwcg

We cross Uncle Tim’s Bridge in Wellfleet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkg1hc6iYcs

Great Island. Makes it into two videos above.

Word Clouds

We exported Isaac’s and Leah’s Twitter entries since March 7 and then used Wordle to graphically represent them as a word “cloud,” more common words becoming bigger. For your edification.

Isaac’s:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/900417/Isaac%27s_Tweets

and Leah’s:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/900453/Leah%27s_Tweets

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.

Quotes of the Day

Random quotes from the late afternoon, March 19, 2009.  Nonsense warning!

• Leah: My big girl has a show and it’s called bonkie on the heady and the monster’s name is Jeepie.
• Issac: My big boy has a show and it’s named the bonkie head and it’s a bad monster and it’s a real monster and it’s a bad real dinosaur.
• Leah: My big girl’s birthday she got a chocolate cake and pink frosting.  And when it’s nighttime, she watchted (sic) a show and readed a book with her mom.
• Isaac: My head is popping out.  Come on Ed Binkie, we’re going in my house.
• Leah: Papa, I have to tell you something really short and it’s not long.  Come on, Binkie, I’m going to give you a splinter, bye!
• Issac: Binkie Jones is a good guy and he lives across the street.
• Leah: I had chocolate beads for supper.
• Isaac: My big boy has a show and it’s named “who’s the biggest person”  and it’s wroten by Juney Backa.  That’s his name.
• Isaac:  One grogger is in the Synagogue and one grogger is out of the Synagogue.
• Leah:  One computer is with a Papa skoldekick and the book is wroten by Shoes-n Juno.
• Leah: Lolly Pop Golden was with his two friends and they were wroten by a fish named Skocky Doodle.  And they were caught in a Soap Fish’s mouth.  In the pool where they were swimming there was a big swimming pool and it was really hot.
• Isaac: When everybody was gone, a big, bad monster come and ate food all up.  And everybody was better and he was a sea monster.
• Leah: If I had a left, if I was going to a party, I saw a left.  A lift or a left?  Skonkie Fish is my running Konkadoodle.

Leah thinking up kooky things to say?

Massachusetts Cousins Invade Cambridge

We received a wonderful visit, yesterday and today (Pi Day & Ides of March, FYI), from our Holyoke, MA, kin: Sarah, Lesley, Kien, and Tien.  Pictures are ready now; videos to follow as time allows (some filmed by Kien, Tien, and Leah).

Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615253193899/show/

Itinerary:

1. House-based amusements
2. Trip by bus and subway to Alewife T Station / Parking Garage
3. Walk on Minuteman Bicycle Path
4. Early dinner at Jasper White’s Summer Shack
5. Bad movie: Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural
6. Sleep
7. Tricycle play in park
8. Muffins, etc., from Darwin’s Ltd., Harvard Square
9. Creation of Facebook and Twitter accounts for Sarah Frances
10. Brunch at Full Moon Child-Friendly Restaurant
11. Tricycle play in park
12. Cousins leave, sigh of sadness.

Aunties Sarah and Lesley in the Parlor

Pirate Pictures

We dug up some old pirate pictures from August 2008 and Salem, MA.  Click here to see them in a new place (Google).