Ro trying out his new sharpener with a red pencil: I sharp it yellow
He was disappointed to learn that a sharpener can’t change the color of his pencils 🙂
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Baby logic #21 – curtesy MrsM
Ro: “Mommy, where are my red shoes?”
MrsM: “I gave them to another baby because you became too big for them.”
Ro:Â “When I’m a baby again can I get it back from the other baby?”
Baby logic #20 – glasses
Not so much a baby logic entry but cute nevertheless:
When Ro and I started driving this moring I realized at the Stop sign at our street corner that I only had my sunglasses in the car and not my regular glasses.
So I backed up the car to return to our home.
Ro (surprised): What are you doing, daddy?
Me: I forgot my glasses.
Ro: No.
Me: Yes, they are at home, Ro, I need to go back real quick.
Ro: No, they’re on your nose!
Sure enough they were right in my face … 🙂
Is dementia setting in?
Little Ro’s first day at new Day Care
Today was Ro’s first day at his new school. We were worried that he would be very sad, but he instantly fit in the new group and had fun.
I went to check on him twice throughout the day. The first time he was reading a book happily sitting in a circle with the other kids waiting for lunch to be served. Luckily they had his most favorite dish: meatballs!
Then in the afternoon he had computer time and he learned how to use the mouse while playing easy coloring games. I sat with him for 10 min, but he wouldn’t let me have the mouse so I left again 😉
Later in the afternoon they had “animal day” and they brought in reptiles from a local zoo – “Dragon and Snakes” as Ro said :-). Ro was the only kid in his class who was courageous enough to carry a snake around his neck. They said it was a Python (non poisonous, but very strong), and it sort of looks like one, but I’m having a hard time believing it…maybe a good thing I wasn’t there 🙂  Also note in the other picture how old the other kids were who dared to touch the big snake! Looks like he’s off to a great start at the new school. Mommy and daddy are proud and relieved:
Taking the leap
After having ignored Web 2.0 and their facebooks and twitters of the world, I’ve finally decided to join the flock and take the leap with google+.
The main reason for this change of mind is really networking. I believe that in our globalized world this is the fastest, and easiest way to stay in touch with people around the world. Sure I give up privacy, but the perceived advantages outweighs the downside of careful use of this technology. I just have to keep reminding me that there’s no delete button on the internet.
Start.
Baby logic #19 – color-ware
Ro eating: <yummyum, investigating his utensils, here baby fork, pressing down the dirty eating side of the fork on the table and making the handle stand up in the air>: “Mommy, sailboat!”
MrsM <with a forgiving yet knowledgeable smile, radiating confidence>: “No, it’s not a sailboat, silly, it’s a fork! It’s silverware.”
Ro <insisting>: “It’s a sailboat!” – then after a short pause: “It’s greenware, mommy, not silverware!”
Sure enough the handle of the fork was green!
Silverware nevertheless… 🙂
Baby logic #18 – many names
Ro: “Daddy, can I have your comverdabble?” <pointing at my red model Porsche 911 Cabrio, meaning convertible>
MrM: “Yes, here you go – but be careful with it”
Ro: “OK, thank you. <he really says that :)>
Ro:”Mommy, what’s the car’s name?”
MrsM: “It’s a Porsche”
Ro: “No, it’s a comverdabble…. ”
Ro:”Daddy, what’s the car’s name?”
MrM <looking up from computer work>: “It’s a sports car convertible” <note, that I didn’t really answer his question, I answered for type, not name!>
Ro <to mommy>: “Mommy, the name is a sports car comverdabble!!”
MrsM: “Yes, it’s a Porsche”
Ro <looking slightly confused, then with a big smile>:”Daddy, the car has three names!”
Baby logic #17 – my picture
Yesterday morning when we got ready to leave for day care I asked Ro to climb into his seat. I then realized that I had forgotten something inside the house. When I returned from inside, I was shocked to find  Ro trying to climb on my car’s hood.
Me: “Ro, *NO*! You can’t climb on this!!!”
Ro: “But there’s my picture!” <his reflection in my shiny car paint!>
Baby logic #16
Ro was running around naked this morning in the bathroom, playing doctor with his stethoscope.
Ro: “Mommy, let me listen to your broken heart!”
Car wash from hell
Have you ever had a night mare about being stuck in a car wash, with water gushing down the windows, while the big evil brushes eat away your car, refusing to stop, and you can’t get out?
Well, that’s pretty much what happened to me this morning. After having taken the BMW to the airfield over the week-end I wanted to quickly rinse off the dust before putting my cover on in the parking lot to protect from the brutal heat in the parking lot.
So I swiped my credit card and drove in – right into hell:..
The buzzer sounded, the water started, and the big evil brushes started cleaning. The cleaned the hood, the front wheels the doors and then just hung there – water still running, brushes still rolling – blocking the doors. After 10s I suspected something was wrong, but nothing was happening – the brushes just kept brushing. The car wash version of a blue screen!
I calmed myself, checked if my cell phone had reception – which it did – the brushes still rotating – now with me having night mares about my paint being sanded away! I decided to wait some longer – maybe this was just a fluke and the car wash computer would wake up again and continue to go about its business. No such luck. Thoughts about the software design of this contraption were flying around in my head – there must be a watchdog timer! The EPA probably mandates it! There must be! Just when I got ready to dial 311 everything suddenly stopped. I could see again the end of the car wash, no more foam coming down on me and most importantly no more ear numbing brushes banging on my car! – SILENCE.
I waited for maybe a minute and then decided to back out of the car wash, since I was still fully soaked in foam.
I walked over to the service station, reported my malady, and got a refund for the car wash. Any attempt by the service person to revive the car wash failed. So he finally offered to hose off the car himself, before sending me on my way. So much for the “Express” car wash – the whole experience took 35min!