Do they have something like TiVo in Finland? Something to cut out the commercials? THN's right, they can wreck your kid's concentration. For Meadra and I, commercials are when Graeme and I go and play and, half the time, never come back afterwards. He's two, but he doesn't really understand much more about TV and movies than which Wiggles song is on which video.

YLE (the two national TV channels) don't have any commercials. But usually Kasper doesn't watch TV. We either play with him or he's sleeping when we watch TV (most programs we watch (movies and such) come after his bedtime).

So, Zoe was just dropped off. I decided to give her a surprise, so when I opened the front door, I rushed out hunched over and brandishing a hammer over my head. Yeah, it's an interesting household. Zoe rushed in the house, and told me "Dad, Stop! You'll hurt my leotard!" (obviously she has her priorities straight).

Now we're watching Spirited Away

ok, so... Zoe went to a birthday party at a dress-up place. The kids were instructed to come in bathing suits or leotards to making chaning in and out of costumes easier. They changed several times, and after one last change, all the lil girls walked down a red carpet to show off.
4 or 5 lil girls came out dressed up as princesses. Then came Zoe.
Zoe was in her leotard... with just black feather boas around her.
One of the mothers looked at me and said 'ooo, you're in trouble.'

so... when exactly did you introduce zoe to the rocky horror picture show?

slightly before her third birthday.

issues much?
So, Zoe was just in her costume drawer. She is wearing a shiny gold dress (thanx Dragon's Bard), a zebra stripe hat, blue cat ears over the hat, a snowflake as a bindi (thanx xine), and a hello kitty purse/bag in one hand, and a sword (Sting) in the other (she's a princess warrior apparantly)

It is quite laughable

me: Cute!
Zoe agrees, then picks up her glasses: but not cute with my glasses on

I'm guessing her fashion sense is still developing.

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Originally posted by GMZoe:
issues much?
So, Zoe was just in her costume drawer. She is wearing a shiny gold dress (thanx Dragon's Bard), a zebra stripe hat, blue cat ears over the hat, a snowflake as a bindi (thanx xine), and a hello kitty purse/bag in one hand, and a sword (Sting) in the other (she's a princess warrior apparantly)

It is quite laughable

me: Cute!
Zoe agrees, then picks up her glasses: but not cute with my glasses on

I'm guessing her fashion sense is still developing.

that's soooo awesome!!!

simon just likes to run around in his underwear on with his supercape and samarai sword. he and his imaginary buddies ride hippogryphs to kill elite murlocks. (too much WoW)

she also came home from school today with a fuzzy poof ball glues onto a long string, which she's been swinging around. She claims it is the insect noise maker from Nausicaa, and she's a little miffed that no one at her school has heard of the film

funny, Nausicaa (or Valley of the Wind) came up in discussion at work the other day. I havent' seen it yet.

i'm just expecting my kids to be much the same way when they get in school. i'm waiting for the call into the office because they have purple hair. i'm sorry, she was just trying to look like Shampoo....

That's really, really cute.

You know, the other day, I was wondering what's going to happen to Zoe when she hits the rebellious stage. When other kids are dressing up like Dr. Frankenfurter to annoy their parents, will she be dressing up like Doris Day, and listening to Britney Spears?

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Originally posted by ladykatza:
i'm sorry, she was just trying to look like Shampoo....

Zoe still requests to watch Ranma, but I've cut it way back (InuYasha though...). I got frustrated with how often people are called perverts, especially for same gender stuff, and decided Z wasn't old enough to take it with a grain of salt yet.

And I'm fairly sure I have sent her to school with spray on blue or red hair before, though not for awhile *ponders tomorrow*

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Originally posted by Jocelyn the Pirate Queen:
You know, the other day, I was wondering what's going to happen to Zoe when she hits the rebellious stage. When other kids are dressing up like Dr. Frankenfurter to annoy their parents, will she be dressing up like Doris Day, and listening to Britney Spears?

Trust me, I wonder too. Fear may be a better word...

when my niece (who is a genius and is lovely and i should brag about more often) was about four she used to make us do her hair like lain. and she actually looked like a superdeformed live lain action figure. she liked to collect all the artwork we allowed her to see and wanted to be call lain and sometimes copied the poses in the drawings

she also insisted on wanting to watch the anime, but that was totally out of the question, obviously.

you mean like, Serial Experiments Lain?

saturday afternoon, a beautiful day for grilling outside with friends. simon finds the sidewalk chalk and comes up to me and says:

"will you draw me a succubus?"

i tell him, that's tommy's department (him being the artist and all). so he goes up to tommy who happily obliges. he added a bikini for a pg rating.

Heh, cool kid...

Speaking of, the Thomas has discovered a new method of refusing to give kisses - stick your tounge out as far as it goes and offer your face instead of just hiding. Awful messy.

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Originally posted by marymac:
stick your tounge out as far as it goes and offer your face instead of just hiding. Awful messy.

heh... my husband does that sometimes, too.

simon was doing really well with counting, but we couldn't get him interested in his letters. when my husband was playing WoW and got tired of simon saying "make him laugh daecon" or "tell a joke daecon" he wrote down all the emotes in block letters and told him to do it himself. now simon has a character of his own, an undead warrior. he's learning his letter on the keyboard.

the other day he spelled out sleep on the fridge... i pointed out to daecon there was a "/" in front of the word.

a few of my favorite pictures from this easter:



"wake up, little suzy -- "