In the spirit of Thanksgiving football, here is a recent game of pillow football between Thing 1 and Thing 2. The game is played by charging your opponent with a pillow and attempting to knock them down. It isn’t very complicated. Usually the game ends when someone gets hurt and cries.
While the game is going on, Thing 3 plays his own game of try to touch the video camera.
Happy Thanksgiving!
This winter, Neediest Kids is working with the Washington Wizards to offer some amazing auction packages, the proceeds of which will directly help even more school children in the Washington, DC area. The online auction is live now through March 14, 2010 and many of these packages are once-in-a-lifetime experiences. The purchase of a single package could help hundreds of students. Some sample packages are:
Gimme Five:
Bid for Ten “High Five Kids” to line the tunnel and give a high five to Wizards as they enter court for Indiana vs. Wizards game. Also includes watching the game in a great suite for 18 fans; two Parking Passes; catered food; Wizards Swag and recognition on Jumbotron for your special event.
Rock n? Roll in Cleveland:
Win 2 Round Trip AA tickets to Cleveland to enjoy an astounding Wizards vs. Cavaliers game with 2 club level seats. Have a smashing good time with this package that includes 2 nights at a Cleveland Marriott, dinner for 2 and 2 tickets to Rock n? Roll Hall of Fame.
For those unable to bid, but still interested in helping, Neediest Kids also has a text campaign for $5 donations directly through any major U.S. mobile carrier. To donate, text “NEED” to 90999, or use the widget on www.neediestkids.org. Also, Papa John’s is donating $1 for every pizza ordered online when you enter the promo code “NEED” before ordering at PapaJohns.com (great for an office or classroom pizza party that helps more than just the hungry attendees).
More information on the organization and these new campaigns can be found at www.neediestkids.org.
A guy I know, who is in “the business”, and performs as a stand-up comedian, once told me that when a joke takes a long time to get to the punchline, when it starts as a seemingly unrelated story but at the end reveals the connection, it’s referred to as “taking the long way home”. Well, in this post, I will be taking the long way home.
You may recall the Seinfeld episode where Newman explains why postal workers sometimes go crazy. He talks about how the his job is never finished, there is always more mail to deliver. And a new batch comes each day. The mail never stops!
Here is the scene in case you never saw it, or need a refresher.
I’ll bet you are wondering where I’m going with this one. Stay with me.
I’ve started to feel like Newman. For me, it isn’t mail, but laundry. Now that they are getting bigger, and their clothes are bigger I guess, the Things are making more and more dirty laundry. We always have more to do.
I think we’ve done at least one load of laundry every day for the last two weeks. And it only gets worse as the weather gets colder. Long sleeve shirts and jeans instead of shorts and t-shirts. And the socks! How is it that we can do an entire basket of laundry and not one sock matches?! And we’re never, ever done. As soon as one basket is washed, dried, folded and put away, there is another dirty load ready to go. When laundry never stops!!!!
And that, my friends, is what we in the business call taking the long way home.
If two times establishes a tradition, then we have a new Halloween tradition. Plenty of people go to pumpkin patches, carve jack-o-lanterns, and decorate the house for Halloween.
Thing 2 started his tradition last year of handing out candy with no pants on. Well, this year it happened again. We didn’t plan it. Didn’t ask for it. But, whoomp there it is!
Of course, I was close by with the video camera so you can see for yourself.
Because I have so much free time, I’ve taken on a new web project. It’s one of the reasons blog entries have been sparse the last few months. It’s called Kidburst and the idea is to help parents find local activities for their kids. Right now we’re mainly in Northern Virginia but hoping to expand to other places (maybe with your help). Check it out and let me know what you think.
I wouldn’t call myself a fanatic, but I like sports. My interest has actually lessened in the last 6 years mainly because I don’t have the opportunity to watch many games on TV. During the day our television is taken over by Toy Story, The Backyardigans, and Tom and Jerry. And I can’t stay awake to watch the games at night.
All that is changing. Thing 1 has reached an age where he is getting into sports, particularly football. “Getting into” is a bad description. He is a fanatic. I suppose I may be fueling it a little myself. Maybe out of selfish motives so I can start watching sports during the day again. But I didn’t quite expect this. See for yourself in this video.
Watch a two year old for a while and you will see some disgusting stuff. This being my third time with a two year old, I thought I had seen it all and nothing could gross me out anymore. Never say never.
Thing 3 likes to put his fingers in his nose. So what. Lots of kids do that. He also likes to eat raisins. Plenty of kids do that, too.
But not too many kids I’ve seen try to stick raisins up their nose. Not just stuck in there, but really shoved in as far as he can. So he needs to put a finger in there all the way to the knuckle and really work to find it and get it out.
Then, when he gets it out of his nose, he puts it into his mouth and eats it.
Just remember that one the next time you order a cinnamon raisin bagel or snack on some trail mix. I know I will from now on.