Archive for April, 2009

Funny stuff.

I’ve collected a few funny things Falco has been doing lately that I want to write down before he grows up and stops being unreasonably cute.

  • We have a couple friends from the UK at Falco’s school, and he picked up on how they say “water.” He now only says water with a British accent.
  • This one we think he got from his favorite (and only) show, Oswald: He repeats things as a question by saying, “…you say?” Me: “Let’s have eggs for breakfast.” Him: “Eggs you say?”
  • He loves an audience and says, “I want to show you something” or “Watch me!” about 300 times per day. Usually whatever he wants us to see is fairly unimpressive.
  • What’s not funny is that he’s losing a lot of his cute mispronunciations. “Mama” for banana was one of his first words, but he recently started saying banana like a normal person. Same goes for “appy” for apple, “pow-powf” for pacifier, “peapock” for peacock, etc. I don’t care for this new speech improvement. Soon he’ll be reading and writing and shaving and moving out.

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    Self sufficient.

    Are you like me in that you depend on your husband to find all your new music, counting on him to look for new quirky, upbeat, probably British, indie pop bands? Well, you might not be exactly like me, but maybe you don’t know where to find new music. Head on over to CD Baby and see what you can find! There you can browse ridiculously specific genres and listen to samples, read reviews, and download MP3s. As I type this, I am downloading three CDs of bands I never would have known about unless Matt happened to find them, and I can’t wait to hear more. Check it out!

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    Let’s Get Physical.

    A few times lately, I’ve caught glimpses of my reflection and worried that I’m just a few burritos away from seeing zoomed in footage of my belly on a CNN story about obesity. The question is, what do I do about it? I’m not going to give up wine or burritos or chevre or wine or pizza or wine, that’s for sure. I used to be able to lose a few pounds by skipping breakfast a few days in a row, but now that I’m past thirty, it’s not so easy, and I hear it only gets worse. So, this means, ugh, adding exercise to the picture.

    Fortunately, I have good friends who go to a good gym. After going as their guest to the very nice, new UCSF gym a couple of times to take our kids swimming, I joined with the aspiration of working out at least twice a week. Tomorrow is the big day. I’m meeting two of said peeps to go to a spinning class. Falco is prepped that he is going to stay for an hour at their kids’ club with two of his friends from school, and I am going to do my best to not have a heart attack while trying to keep up with my two athletic pals. I hope to live to tell you how it goes.

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