Sunday, July 24, 2005

Anti-siphon Valve

Anyone who’s ever fed solid food to a baby knows what a messy ordeal it can be. You put the food in the baby’s mouth, than the baby swallows half of the food, and spits the other half out, than you scoop the spillage up with the spoon, and stick it back in the baby’s mouth. Kinda gross when you think about it. You would never spit half of your burger back on the plate only to scoop it up and finish it off later. Well my boy Jared seems to have inherited his Daddy’s big brain, and has discovered a solution to the problem. Once the food goes in he plugs his face shut with his thumb, trapping all of the food in his head until he can swallow it. I’m tellin’ ya, the kids a genius.

Spell Check This!

Spellchecker thinks I’m an idjit. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some spellchecker, but that fool don’t know the first thing about the more subtle variations of spelling in the English language. Most of my posts are full of what spellchecker thinks are errors, because I like to spell it like I say it. Know what I mean? Here’s a list of words that spellcheckface thinks I don’t know how to spell:

Kinda (kind of)

Tellin’ (any ing word spelled in’ really)

Ya (you)

Idjit (idiot)

Spellcheckface

And that’s just the ones from this post and the last post. Here’s more from past entries and whatnot:

Benglish

Da (the)

Wanna (want to)

Happenin’ (pesky ing words)

Poo

Poopy

Shart

Rashy

Superheroey

Pic’s (pictures)

S’posed (supposed)

Prob’ly (probably)

Wanna (want to)

Buttload

Dunno (don’t know)

Anywho, you get the point. This post alone has 26 spelling errors according to the spellchecker. Guess I shoulda tried harder.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Only Dorks Go to Comic Conventions

Got back from the San Diego Comic-Con a couple of days ago. I had bucket loads of fun. I got to meet the creators of Invincible and Walking dead, and The Goon. I saw tons of cool toy prototypes, and I spent about 200 bucks on toys and stuff. We went on a Saturday. Mental note: never go to the Con on a Saturday. Next year I want to go on Thursday and maybe Friday too if I can, and by “if I can” I mean if Marie will let me.

I took a bunch of pic’s of Ben standing with (or near) his favorite superheroey types. He had fun, but not as much as me I think. He slept in the stroller for a couple of hours. Don’t even ask how bad it sucked to push a stroller around in a densely packed crowd of 10’s of thousands of people, but at the same time it was a life saver, because I hauled all of my junk around in it, so I can’t complain too much.

Here are the pictureses.

Being shy with She-ra

Being shy with Spiderman

Being shy with a different Spiderman

Green Lantern

If you don't stop with the shyness Harlequin is gonna cap you.

"I'm not even gonna stand close to those guys."

Thing, Vader, Batman, and slightly shy He-man.

Adam the Alien sketch by "Invincible" artist Ryan Ottley.

He-man by Ryan Ottley

The Goon by "The Goon" artist/writer Eric Powell. He did this one in about 2 seconds. He wasn't doing sketches, so I feel lucky to get anything at all.

Zombie by "Walking Dead" artist Charlie Adlard,

My son won this bad boy at the Tower Records/BCI MotU costume contest. He dominated the junior division by being the only entrant. It's a framed 10 X 13 print of the DVD cover signed by Lou Scheimer.

Them's the pic's. Even though Ben looks super shy in every picture, he actually freaked out if I didn't let him get a close look at every superhero that he recognized (which is a lot). He only pulled the shy act when he got too much attention.

The crew at BCI took a lot of footage of him, so hopefully he'll make it into a future DVD documentary. *crosses fingers*

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Poo Happens

Ben pooped no less than five times yesterday, and today he’s pooped three more times and it’s only four o’clock! Plus one poop this morning by Jared and that makes nine poopy diapers that I’ve changed in about twenty four hours. UGGHHH!!! Plus, some of Ben’s poops have just been little sharts, which you might think are better than big poops, but you’d be making the biggest mistake of your life if you thought that. See, the sharts are stealthy poops. They have a near indiscernible scent and are invisible from outside of the diaper, so Ben runs around with no poopy diaper symptoms. Meanwhile the poo is doing what poo does when it’s allowed to make extended contact with diaper wearing bums, it eats them! At least that’s what it seems like, because now he has a nasty, nasty rash that makes him walk around like he just got off a horse. Than he poops another twenty times, and do you think he enjoys it when I wipe his nasty, rashy bum? Oh no, he kicks and screams, making the chances of me wiping his poopy bum without getting it on my hands, and on the changing table, and on his feet, and whatever else you can think of, in the neighborhood of almost zero. Than I have to apply the ointment. Can I just say that if the neighbors can hear Ben scream, it should only be moments before Child Protective Services knocks on my door.

The good news is that Jared can hold his own bottle now, as of yesterday, so while I was changing poopy diaper number nine Jared fed himself.

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Party Animals

Ben’s birthday party was today. His birthday isn’t until next week, but we’ll be in San Diego (woo-hoo!), so the party was today. It was a happenin’ shindig too. We had water games outside, a SpongeBob piñata with the most righteous candy ever (because I picked it out), and Ben got a gazillion toys, and by a gazillion I mean about 20. He dug it though. He really likes getting new toys, but who doesn’t.

Mr. Mom

Marie started her new gig at Pulte this week. So, now after one week of being a stay at home dad, I am now a seasoned veteran. It’s only slightly more stressful to have to be in charge of both kids at the same time, and get some chores done. OK actually it’s a little tough, but it’s nothing a grizzled vet., like me, can’t handle.

Oh by the way, Richmond called and said I could start working for them right away, and I told them that they are beneath me, and I would never work for their filthy, petty organization. Translation: they told me they hired someone else.