Posted by Katherine on January 26th, 2009
Ted is finally over all the colds, teething, rashes, etc. (knock on wood) and has been back to his usual goofy self for the past few days. I am still working on getting him back onto a reasonable schedule. He is close to only waking up once at night, but seems to think that it is a good idea to wake up for the day before 5am.
His mode of transportation these days is the army crawl. He goes from sitting to his hands and knees like he is going to crawl, but then drops his belly to the floor and scooches along instead. He loves to jump so much I think he might just jump everywhere before he learns to walk. Oh! and he waves now!
He loves yogurt. The first time we gave it to him he apparently came down with a new virus on the same day, so we had held off for awhile, but now he handles it fine and eats more of it than anything else except cheerios. He has also had cherry applesauce, some white rice, and chunks of chicken.
Early this past week he got to play in the snow for the first time. He seemed to really like it and didn’t even mind being in his snow suit. We got 5 or six inches. I guess it was the first time in five years that we have had more than an inch of snow!
This weekend Auntie Christine came to visit. We had fun shopping and eating out. Even trying out Ted’s Montana Grill. Ted was very happy to get to play with her and ride on her shoulders all weekend. Pat and I even went out to a movie on Saturday night. We saw Slumdog Millionaire. It was a great weekend! Now we are looking forward to next weekend when we will be in RI again!
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Posted by Patrick on August 23rd, 2007
Kate’s kicking it New England-style this week for some family fun.Things have been pretty quiet around here. Tonight the cats and I are watching Hot Fuzz, and it’s pretty funny. Not as good as good as Shaun of the Dead (which stars almost the exact same cast), but funny none the less.
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Posted by Patrick on July 15th, 2007
Today we went to see a movie that I’ve been wanting to see for some time. And while it was quite different from the last Transformers movie, it was also pretty excellent.
Based on previews, I thought the newly updated robots were kind of goofy looking, but in the film they worked well in adding to the feeling that cars can actually transform into giant robots and walk around. I also has happy to hear Peter Cullen revising his role as the Optimus Prime character. He’s got a distinct voice, and it enhanced the Tranformerishness of the story.
General Motors clearly had a heavy sponsorship role in the flick, as most of the cars were GM’s. It was cool to see a Mustang in the mix, though. I didn’t see any Celica’s at all, which is no surprise because they haven’t made them in a few years, but it does make me want to re-install Maya and try to make a CGI Celica Transformer again.
The plot didn’t break any ground, but it was a very entertaining movie… if you’re into the whole giant transforming robot thing.
Ps: Related to the above post, this is funny if you’re into auto insurance or autobots.
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Posted by Patrick on July 1st, 2007
This weekend Kate and I each chose a rental film that we hoped would be cool and different from the usual action flick or rom-com. We ended up spending two nights watching strange and unusual independent films that probably should have been really good, but just were kind of meh.
On Friday we watched the film that I chose, Science of Sleep. I had moderately high hopes for it, since it was made by the guy who made Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which was pretty good.
The movie is about a European fellow named Stephane who returns to his childhood home in (I think France), and tries to get his apartment neighbor Stephanie to like him. The story is told from his perspective, sometimes inside his own head (this reminded me of Herman’s Head a little), as he tries to deal with his heartache, crazy typesetting coworkers, mother, and the fact that his dreaming seems to put him in danger. At one point he writes a letter to Stephanie in his dream and sleep-walks it over to her. At another point he manages to fall asleep with his feet in a small freezer and wakes up with ice on his toes.
The stop-motion animation was cool, but the movie just sort of dragged in some parts.
On Saturday we watched Kate’s pic, The Squid and the Whale, which was a little better then Science.
It’s the story of a dysfunctional family in 1980’s New York city, dealing with bad parenting and sociopath children. Jeff Daniels (yes, him) stars as almost the worst dad ever, and the mom (Laura Linney) isn’t much better.
A more interesting story, compared to Science of Sleep, but a little painful to watch in some parts and one of those strange movie endings that kind of leave you wondering what the heck just happened.
But that’s the risk you take when not wanting to watch the same old formula-based movie. Sometimes you get something good (Little Miss Sunshine, Pulp Fiction, Fargo) and sometimes you get weird.
Speaking of movies, the Simpsons movie should be coming out soon. They have a cool thing on their site that lets you create a Simpsonized version of yourself. While it’s not nearly as accurate or time-consuming as making a Wii “Mii“, it’s still kinda fun. But no glasses option? And where’s the option for a full beard?
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Posted by Patrick on June 16th, 2007
Oh sweet, sweet weekend!
More Yankee Visitors
Kate’s dad and stepmom came down from up north for a little pre-father’s-day North Carolina visiting action. We had a good time showing them around the house, our rapidly-expanding neighborhood, and also a visit to the Farmer’s Market in Raleigh. They took us out to eat at the Cleveland Draft House and then we got some very tasty bbq at McCall’s. Good eats and good-to-see-family.
Etsy
As we speak Kate is rocking some Etsy product using Adobe Illustrator. She’s quickly picked up one of the harder to learn design software programs. While I spent all sorts of time over the past few years learning the intricate details of Photoshop (Illustrator’s more photogenic cousin), I had forgotten a ton about Illustrator, so it’s been a learning (re-learning?) experience for both of us. Good stuff being done here, so be sure to check out MoseandZoe.com in the coming weeks for new stuff. Or check it out now, for slightly-less-new-but-still-very-cool hand-made crafts.
Movie Night
We watched The Pursuit of Happyness with The Fresh Prince. It was pretty good. Tonight I think we’re watching Running with Scissors.
Safari
Spent a few minutes this week playing around with the Windows version of Apple’s Safari web browser. Much like iTunes for windows, it’s just not as good when its not on the OS X platform. It certainly displays the pages quickly enough, but there’s no advantage to using it over say Firefox or Opera. Maybe someday, though.
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