And It Was Still Hot

I totally wish that I was going to see Where The Wild Things Are tonight but i have been following the various blogs over the past few months and it is making me feel a little better. This was the first book that I bought for Olivia (along with the famous Olivia series) and Olivia had it memorized before she was nine months old. She would wave goodbye to Max along with the wild things and it is the one moment that i never got on video and that makes me sad. Luckily it is one of those memories that I can play back in my mind like it was yesterday. I think it was then that i knew that I had kid who was going to love stories and reading forever. I hopeful that Spike Jonze is going to bring to life what I consider to be a true masterpiece in 20 pages.

So when my spare kids are gone Olivia and i will go see it and maybe I will find out then that I have a movie lover for life too.

In Too Deep

Before I continue with the Nutcracker saga I wanted to post this photo of us canoeing a few weeks ago. I was a little nervous that the three of us trapped in a canoe together for an extended period of time was going to end in either a murder-suicide pact or in the three of us being fished out of the water by some good Samaritan. It turns out that Olivia was able to find endless entertainment attempting to catch fish with nothing other than a small lacrosse net and loving (screaming at) ducks. And because it is Chad and I's assertion that if your child is screaming in the middle of the lake and no one is close enough to hear it, then it is not really happening.