Jericho Is Cancelled

This was my "secret pleasure" show that I'd catch on CBS.com when everybody was asleep...alas, it'll be really cancelled this time with no hope of returning - it was resurrected once...

Happy Easter...

This will be short because it is so time for night-night right now.
We had a wonderful day. Got to spend it with family and just be low key in general.
The Easter Bunny was nice enough to bring Sam his very own Red Sox t-shirt (that actually fits). So after wearing their finery to church, he and Caroline were Matuzaka and Ellsbury today.

Oh -

And how could I forget this one? Thanks for sending it, Mom.

Friday Night

We're recouping from a busy week.
Daddy and Sam are busy resting.


Caroline and Sam both got to wear their "Chicks Dig Small Ball" shirts. Jim and I thought the shirts were great when we bought them (oh, how I miss Bat-Girl). It never occurred to us that we may have to explain what it means to non-baseball-type people. Especially when a boy wears it. Oh, well.

A Tradition Continues.

This will probably be a tradition that makes the kids roll their eyes and say how absolutely lame their mother is, but I don't care.

Anybody remember St Patrick's Day of 2006 and 2007? Well, here are the installations for 2008...

It did occur to me to try to get their picture together, but Caroline kept shaking her head ( "I make the flowers bounce, Mommy") which would result in shamrocks flying across the room as they sailed off the headband ("I broke the flowers, Mommy. You fix? Please?"). I had to do my best to keep Sam out of the crossfire.


Sam, by the way, was super smiley tonight (imagine that). It's a nice change from what we've become used to. I hope it's a trend.

Caroline (literally) got into her toybox the other day. Maybe she has been reading the blog too much...

I'll put pictures up from this weekend as soon as I get them. Yes, that is a hint.

[UPDATE - Jim] A Muppets Happy St. Paddy's Day:

Hooray!

from the Unofficial Chili Fire Dept Website:

Congratulations to P. Leahy!

Posted 09 Mar 2008 23:28:18 by admin

Lt. Leahy has accepted a position with the United States Border Patrol. He is reporting to the academy on March 20 for 19 weeks, and then will be stationed in Texas. A send off party is going to be held on Saturday, March 15 at 19:00 hours at the Social Club. Please stop by and wish him a healthy and safe journey to the southern border after 10+ years here at Chili.

Congrats, Pat!

It sounds like fun.
We are very proud of you.

Jeff Buckley Reference: "Hallelujah" most popular iTune Download

Jeff Buckley put this Leonard Cohen version of Hallelujah onto his only LP, Grace. Everybody knows that I'm a Jeff Buckley nut, so it was good to hear that his legend is still alive and continues to grow...

Billy Crystal's Yankee At-Bat

Ummm....This is Weird.

It's noon on a Monday.
Both kids are asleep already.
This is really strange and I'm hoping that I won't pay for it later. Maybe it's the time change. I don't know.
Not that I'm complaining.

Almost Spring?

Yeah, right. But at least we were able to celebrate the warm weather and near cloudless skies by taking a walk. Or, rather, going surfing in a puddle. It was straight to bathies when we got home (as you will soon see), but we had a lot of fun.



And just so it's not an all Caroline all the time post...here's Sam!

Some More...

Just some cute pictures we got recently that I thought I would put up:

Also - Sam has gotten very good at playing the "Goo Game". However, this is probably not entertaining for anyone but Jim, myself and Caroline (who gets right in front of Sam and says "Say GOOOOOOOOOOOO"). He does get a little fussy at the end, but that's just Sammy being Sammy.


Caroline was also "looking" for her Curious George the other night...We were amused (oh and by the way - the trash can was empty - and George wasn't in it).

AND...

THANK YOU.

Thank you to Dick Dorfman, who is the online announcer for the Arizona Winter League. He did a great job giving those of us that were a thousand miles away a taste of the great baseball that was taking place in Yuma. We thoroughly enjoyed his broadcasts and found ourselves listening even when no one we actually knew was playing. I'm sure he won't miss trying to keep up with players that switch jerseys in the middle of games, people playing that aren't on rosters and managers that actually come to bat in games. But I'll miss hearing him. Listening to the games made the bleak midwinter here in Worcester more bearable. I hope his next gig is somewhere that broadcasts over the net. We'll be watching for him.
Here are the results from yesterday's championship game in Yuma. We will be burning discs of games for whoever wants them and mailing them soon (I haven't forgotten about you, Brie). We wanted to get as much as we could on the discs.

We had more snow this weekend (sigh). But we did have a good time cleaning it up yesterday. If nothing else, it was good exercise. AND we got to go sledding again today at WPI.



Caroline is starting to interact a bit more with her brother. She will come over and give him toys (only if she has an extra, but hey - it's a start) and if he's crying (which is frequently) she'll come over and say, "Don't worry, Sammy. It's okay".
It's too cute, I say.
Last night we had everyone in the kitchen while we were making dinner and here's what it looked like:

In the bottom picture Caroline wants Sam to play with the toy she has and she's really telling him "Get up, Sam. Get UP!" She was getting quite frustrated that his arms wouldn't reach as far as she wanted them to. We had to intervene (she was ready to pick him up and out of the seat) - but we were happy an attempt was made.