On Saturday October 17th 2009 I took you to the Parque de Atracciones in Casa De Campo on the western edge of town. After a long ride on the metro we stopped in for some mediocre Chinese food and then hit the park.
I have more photos which I will post later but for now I just want to post my candidate for movie of the year. Your first “Free Fall”.
As you rode up it was clear to me that you didn’t quite grasp, while watching from the ground, what you had signed up for…on the initial drop I could see signs of the whole thing going very wrong very quickly but you quickly found your feet, so to speak, and had a blast…so much so that on the way out it wouldn’t do but you had to ride it one more time (luckily for me, we made it on line just before they shut it down!).
(The whole thing is great but my favorite bits are the little wave before you got going and your “bravery” at the very end).
After 2 years talking about it and 3 months actively looking we have finally gotten you a dog to call your own. Her name, for now, is Gidget and she is, according to the shelter, a 14 month old Pit/Pointer mix. She came to live with us yesterday, Monday March 30th, and so far so good. Your preferred name for her so far has been Butter Bean but your mom isn’t so sure that it fits so there is no consensus as yet.
While she is very much a puppy she is mostly housebroken and doesn’t seem to be to scarred from the 4 months she spent in the shelter. She was picked up by Bridgeport Animal control in December and from there, thankfully, made her way to paws here in Norwalk.
You two have made fast friends and she has been, so far, very conscientious or how small you are and hasn’t pounced you, though I wish the same could be said of your mom and I. As your mom tells me that this afternoon you two spent the day playing fetch and you, of course, were beside yourself with joy.
While we are only 2 days into getting to know our new friend, we all agree that we seem to have made a good choice.
By JWP ( December 18, 2009 at 8:17 pm) · Filed under lilah, cute, funny, quote
So back in October our friend John came to visit us in Spain. While there he tried to get you to tell us “what the fonz says”. However, you refused to say the iconic “Ayyy”, choosing instead to put up your thumb and say “Beeee”.
In the midst of all our travels we quickly pushed this to the back of our minds. Until last night at dinner when you started asking (with your thumbs up) “who says Beeee, daddy”. It took us about ten minutes before your mother correctly guessed the Fonz.
Alright kid, first of all you have been a bear for the past month (since the day you turned 3 actually), completely un-cooperative, refusing to sleep, and temper tantrums galore.
Today, however, you were back to your old self full of cheer and ready rock-n-roll when I got home. As is the the habit of late, I had to assume the role of pooh bear as soon as I got home and, apparently, you were Eeyore. Made clear by your crawling around on the floor while complaining, with the proper amount of melancholy in your voice, about the impending rain.
Eventually we made our way over to your blocks and after building your castle 4 blocks tall you declared, with much enthusiasm, it to be “normous”, it doesn’t sound as cute in print as it did in person but I promise you it was quite cute. In fact I coaxed you into repeating several times to my own delight.
It was about this time that you decided you were the “Bad Wolf” and immediately knocked over the tower.
