Previously untitled because I forgot .. but have rectified this now

stairing at you

Like Laura

Me as a baby
and

Daughter Laura as a baby

there are some similarities, yes?

tell it again??

  Maybe Ethan does not want Great Grandpa 

to tell his Submarine Airforce story, again!

Stop I say, don't say it again!

more ants came marching....

OK so they are aunts and not ants... 

and they aren't marching...

they are sitting on my mom's couch... 

and one of them is not my aunt... 

but my mother.

Spent some time at a family reunion at the beginning of the month up in the Soo. It was from my mother's mothers side of the family.

Stayed at my cousin George (and Susan's)
and had a splendiforous time being picked on.

Got to see Jeffrey and Laura's place.

in the backyard

Sat at a table in a restaurant and listened to the people at the table next to us struggling with remembering the words to a song. So I got up and began to sing the song to them. It was from the show Hee Haw.

Where, where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over,
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
Phht! you were gone.

and it never sounded so good. 

the ants came marching

Alexander was over a couple of weeks back and he was in the backyard with Martin. Alexander was going to go on the slide when he discovered that there were some ants already on the slide and Alexander did not want to deal with them and he decided that he didn't want to go on the slide after all.
Martin said to him, "It's ok, you can still go on the slide. The ants won't bother you. It's no problem."
Alexander looked at Martin and said, "Yes, problem."

 

Alexander thought that it was so funny that he was grinning all evening long.
He was sitting on the couch hours later and started laughing out loud and said, "Yes, problem."

giving the finger

I don't know why I find this picture amusing, but I do.
I don't know which one I most identify with.
Sometimes I feel like the green fella in the back and
othertimes I feel like the somewhat shocked fella out front.
Which one do you feel like today?

40 lashes with a wet noodle

40 lashes with a wet noodle doesn't sound so tough

but these are Ethan's eyelashes 

and you can see they are of quite the length

hopefully when he is older he will not find it a chore 

to listen to the girls swoon over his lovely long lashes 

 his uncle Henry had to listen to the swooning 

by humans of the female persuasion 

who were heaping compliments upon his lashes 

 and whence Henry discovered that such swooning 

was not to be appreciated by said self 

he dispenced of the aforementioned lashes 

by taking the scissors to one set of lashes and 

thusly snip-ped the lashes away 

thus rendering his lashes unswoonable

 ( a highly regarded state for a 7 year old ) 

a little crooked did Henry's face appear for a time

but after all these years

Henry still has beautiful eyelashes