Blog-Tagging, bless its heart, is the bane of the blog world. And I say that only because I’m a guy and it totally feels like a girl thing to do– like filling out and forwarding crazy emails where you answer all these questions and your wildest dreams will materialize ala Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science. …
So our friend Jenny has a blog (as you may have noticed in our blog roll at right). She’s got this cute little guy (Owen) who’s Joshua’s age. Sadly, they thought Oregon was a cooler place to live than Cache Valley and beat a hasty retreat a couple months ago, leaving Mari-Catherine and Joshua all …
Well, it’s official. MC is on jury duty.
And not just any jury duty. Oh no. This isn’t sissy stuff. This case? MURDER. That’s right. Murder.
Mari-Catherine first received notice of jury pool selection a few months back when we felt her chances of being called were scant. When she went in for interviews last week, I …
Instead of Vintonville, I think I should rename the site JoshuaBurg. Or Joshua Junction. Don’t act like you haven’t noticed– this site’s been on a Joshua roll the last few days… which is OK with me because I can’t get enough of the kid. Still, I’ll try to even things out by working on more …
Joshua loves bugs. He’s like the Jane Goodall of Entomology, except he’s not an old lady. And he’s three. We were recently at a family event when he found a creepy crawly sluggishly inching along outside in the cold. His initial “WHOOOOOAA!” becmae “Aaaaaaw. It’s cold!” and without hesitation he picked the Pine Seed Bug …
Consider these pictures on the digital fridge. While scribbles and stick men hold a special place in parental hearts, I’m not all that endeared by seeing the doodlings of other kids. Of course, when Joshua picks up the crayon, he’s the next Bill Waterson, Mark Teague, Steve Purcell, or Chris Sanders.
It’s just fun to see …
Thing about having kid? Sleeping in takes a masochistic nosedive into the empty pool of things hoped for but never seen. Make like a teenager and go to bed at 3 am? Wake up at 8. Make like Old Man Winterbottom and go to bed at 10pm? Wake up at 8. Put the kid to …
One time, two weeks into the future, I tried to wake up before 8pm on November 4th, but I’d stayed up too late on November 3rd playing video games and trying to come up with posts for the blog.
*This clip has bleeped naughty words.
So I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with some kind of interesting content for the blog when vacations are slim, the camera sits idle, life is day to day and I’m not fired up by the latest political shenanigans perpetrated by guys named McCain and Obama and streets named “Wall”.
And I’m drawing …
Joshua enjoys the occasional shower. The occasional LONG shower. He’ll load his cars, boats, submarine, sharks, action guys and octopi into the shower and shout orders (“FIRE!”, “HERE COMES THE DOCTOR!”, “WATCHOUT!”) and explodey sound effects until his hands are prunetastic and the water gets cold. As MC pulled him out of the shower today, …
