Contagious Perversion

Weeks ago, Zoe and I plotted Paul's birthday. This past Thursday, we presented!

Menu:
Bacon wrapped steak on a stick. Mashed potatoes with gravy. Broccoli with cheese sauce. Served picnic style. Desert- a birthday doughnut!



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Started out with a low fever and coughing... now she's throwing up, too! Wheee.

Also, our power is flickering on and off, due to some pretty powerful winds. Hopefully it doesn't go out! That'd make this day *perfect.*

Yesterday, Zoe and I started plotting for Paul's birthday. These are her ( plans )

It is a "superhero arm extension" and those round things are buttons he'll be able to push to make it "do cool stuff." I wrote in what she wanted each button to do. & Yes, that one says "soundtrack." LOL

As much as it cracks me up, I think it's an awesome idea. Plus it goes right along with my gift of MP3 player... This week I gather materials, so we can make it! Then, I'll just have to find some way to hook up the MP3 player to the device so it will play when he pushes the button... bam! Two gifts in one! >;)

In any case, Zoe and I surfed YouTube to find some "soundtrack songs" and she picked out these four:

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xfXXwIul0
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5vRkELqWqE
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQF6RwNmiK4
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vp5hFjKy20

I need your help identifying them! I'm positive I've heard them all before, but I can't even remember where, no less the name of the song/composer. So, if you can identify the song, or movie, or anything to help me figure it out, please let me know! Then I can download them into the MP3 player before giving it to P. All figured out, thanks to disoculated and 224215152!

Kira got another bath last night (a follow up measure from a month ago). Afterwards I set up the heating pad on the bed, put a couple of towels over it and set her on top. She stayed there, licking furiously until about midnight. When I went to bed, I turned off the heating pad, and set it on the floor (I was too tired to put it away).

Even though I have not turned the heating pad back on, Kira has been sitting on it ALL DAY and looking at me pathetically.

I was unsure how this was going to taste, but I gave it a shot anyway. & wow. Fucking fantastic! lemonruss sopped up the rest of the sauce with his tater tots, it was so good.

Anyway, ( here's the recipe. )

Also the three of us finally beat Pandemic! This is very hard to do, but seriously fun to try. :)

Today is Zoe's first day of Kindergarten! She's been positively bouncy all weekend.

We picked out her clothes, at her request, on Sunday. She wanted to wear all of her favorites, together... which were: a long sleeve maroon velvet dress, striped stockings (green, pink, and blue), a black over-all style skirt, and a red and white t-shirt ("in case they have races"). *sigh* I convinced her that, as fabulous as all that sounded, we had to narrow it down a bit. ;)

When she arrived at school today, she was ready to go! A usually apprehensive-about-new-things kind of girl, jumped right in. It was time, and I'm glad for that. :)

In semi-related news:
Zoe has been really into 'connect the dots' games lately. When she finished all the ones in her workbooks, we went online, printed a bunch out, and stapled them together. On the way to orientation yesterday, we brought some with us to do on the bus. When she was finished, she decide that it was going to be a "real book," and that she was going to sell it on the Metro. I told her that she might want to make it more interesting, by writing stories that go with the pictures. And so she dictated precisely to her father, while he wrote it down for her.

The title of her book is "Red Capital letters: Owl & Moon."

Here is a sample of her story (click on it for more):


Note from the author: "When it is finished, we will sell it for twenty five hundred dollars!"

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