In the meantime you can check out this photo which I find to be equal parts adorable and weird. Thank you Tudor for capturing the moments of our lives.
I've been trying to move all my teaching materials (WAY more than I thought I had) from one school to another this week, so posts have been light. I will catch up once Emmett calms down for five minutes.
In the meantime you can check out this photo which I find to be equal parts adorable and weird. Thank you Tudor for capturing the moments of our lives.
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So the Optometrist tells me I have Albino eyes. This is why I am sensitive to light. This is why I "need to wear sunglasses like, ALL of the time" according to Dr. Bond. I found this hilarious. So hilarious that I couldn't stop laughing in his office. He was a bit concerned, but I told him not to worry about it. The Albino eyes is not something that I need to treat, but but prescription has changed for distance, so I am in the market for news frames (or possibly just new lenses). So, Sra and Larissa told me I should check out Clearly Contacts. They always give great advice. So I'm contemplating getting a pair of fashion-y type frames that have transition lenses. A very preliminary search turned up these styles that might be ok: this one, and this one. For your reference and entertainment, the picture at the top is a scan of the retina of an albino eye. That is EXACTLY what my scan looked like at the optometrist. The picture below is of a regular eye. The dark bits absorb light. My eyes don't do this very well, as you might imagine. This year Dave and Steph are getting married, which is awesome. They are getting married Hillside weekend. This is also awesome. I know they are probably tired of people telling them that "you're ruining Hillside", or something equally dickish that I probably blabbered at Pish's wedding, but in truth, had it not been for the Bell-Alexander nuptials I wouldn't have even known Hillside was happening that weekend, never mind what the lineup is. Plaskett is playing this year (on Sunday) and I'm still trying to figure out a way to join Tudor and anyone else who will be there enjoying the show. Sunday night finale at Hillside is probably not the best place to take a baby, but it's certainly not the worst. There are still Sunday tickets available, so there might be hope yet. Emmett finally took a bit of a bottle today, so things are looking even brighter. I already know Sra's opinion on this topic, and generally I tend to agree (she hates them). Most wall stickers are very trendy and therefore tend to be either kind of tacky, or really tacky. But lately I've seen some really neat designs on Etsy and I've been thinking of using some kind of tree or branch decal in Emmett's room to finish off the look. I like the fact that most of the stickers can be peeled off and reused later, or just removed completely without having to do a full paint job, and without the messiness of wallpaper borders. So what do you think? Are they whimsical or tacky? Does it matter if it's a baby's room? *** Also this one: http://www.etsy.com/listing/99794574/vinyl-wall-decal-nature-design-tree-wall?ref=sr_gallery_41&ga_search_query=tree+wall+decal&ga_order=date_desc&ga_view_&ga_ship_to=US&ga_min=0&ga_max=0&ga_page=3&ga_search_&ga_facet=tree+wall+decal On the heels of my Mother's Day experience, Regan got to enjoy his first Father's Day this year (as a father, that is). We invited the Walsh family over for dinner and Regan's older brother Michael brought along his new son Jaymon (7 months old). The cousins got to hang out for the first time (you know, as much as babies can hang out, which mostly involves propping them awkwardly on the couch and taking blurry photos while they keel over and crash into one another). Regan's mom got him a card and this book, which Regan read to Emmett later that night. Too cute. I bought Emmett this onesie, and this one too, and that was Regan's Father's Day present. Overall I think it was a pretty good day, and I hope Regan had a good time. I think he's a pretty great dad and Emmett does too. He told me so. Emmett totally digs his newest toy. It's a crochet fox that I commissioned from Amy Gow, my friend from book club. She makes amazing stuffed critters with no pattern! She just starts to crochet and magic happens. When Amy brought him over Emmett took to him right away. It doesn't hurt that his nose slightly resembles a nipple. He likes those too. Emmett and Mr. Fox became fast friends since foxy is the perfect size for Emmett to hug (see photo). Regan came up with the idea to name him Rupert, so now he has joined the ranks of our friends' babies' toys with awesome names. When I was growing up, my mom always wanted to have roses. Well, more specifically she just wanted at least ONE rose plant to grow in our side garden, but alas, it seemed doomed to failure. For this reason I'd always assumed roses were really hard to keep alive and therefore not worth the money. When we moved into our house five years ago there were some fairly small but healthy roses growing along the back wall in VERY hard clay soil. I knew I didn't want them to stay there, but I figured if I tried transplanting it would kill them. Thanks to my mom though, I figured my mere presence as the caretaker of these flowers would also kill them eventually, so I saw no real harm in attempting a transplant. Miraculously, several transplants down the line, the roses are thriving. This year I'm going to have more blooms than ever before and the different varieties are all so pretty. I'm going to take a few more pictures because there are even more roses now then when I snapped these. Foolishly last summer I bought a NEW rose plant from the farmers' market and planted it. I assumed this year I would see beautiful yellow blooms. Instead, it appears to be dead. hmmm... I guess the lesson here is that in order for women in my family to enjoy roses, we have to inherit them through property acquisition. I heard an interview on the CBC with the author of this book. I thought it sounded a bit ambitious in its claims at first, but then the interview started to grow on me. It sounds like a fascinating project, and perhaps even a really great kids' book. I think I'm going to order a copy for Emmett. This is the introduction to the book: "I feel I should warn you. No computers will be found in this book. If the idea of a computer science book without computers upsets you, please close your eyes until you’ve finished reading the rest of this page. The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly. You can see the moon and stars without a telescope, smell the flowers without a fluoroscope, have fun without a funoscope, and be silly sans oscilloscope. You can also play with computer science without... you-know-what. Ideas are the real stuff of computer science. This book is about those ideas, and how to find them." I'm totally on board with finding creative ways to promote digital literacy in a meaningful way that doesn't involve creating a faux Facebook page for Jay Gatsby, etc. I'm more interested in teaching students how to THINK, especially about technology and problem solving. I'm curious to read it. So when we went to visit Laurier there were a number of significant changes. I didn't expect the school to remain exactly the same, but these changes seem to be mostly in the category of "Change for the sake of change" or "How best should we waste student money?". Also I don't appreciate the destruction of what little green space (or tree shade) there was on campus, simply to build a ramp and expand the Terrace Food Court. I guess they replanted some trees, but it'll be a long time before they give shade to any students. I snapped some photos (unfortunately a bit more blurry than I thought), if you'd like to see. This weekend Anthony Piscitelli got married to Crystal Shaw. We dubbed the event "Pishaw" on Twitter and it caught on with literally TENS of people. It was a great wedding and we're very thankful that Regan's mom and sister came with us to the hotel to watch Emmett since he still refuses to take a bottle. I was able to dash back to the hotel to feed him at various times, while still having a fan-tab-u-lous time at the wedding. The next morning after breakfast Regan and I stopped by the Laurier Campus to give Emmett a little tour. Not much is the same though. Some of the most significant changes are the re-re-doing of the 24-hour lounge (yes, twice in about six years), the suck-ification of the Torque Room (couches = gone, plastic chairs and individual classroom-style chairs for studying is apparently the new hotness. But WHERE am I supposed to skip class, take a nap, read the paper, and solve all the world's problems while playing 9-11 Jenga?). Oh, and most horrifying of all, the Tim Horton's is gone from the hallway outside of Lecture Hall 1E1 and has been replaced with mailboxes! Oh the humanity. Overall it was a great weekend and we can't wait for the next big party! Congratulations Crystal and Anthony. |