Can you believe this is Sesame Street's 40th anniversary? Pretty cool to consider that some of my favorite characters and concepts can be shared with Bean. One favorite was the pinball counting segment. We sing this with Bean a lot (while making him "dance," natch). I just learned that the voices are the Pointer Sisters - even better!

Labels: misc

The California Supreme Court just announced that it is upholding Prop 8, but will not invalidate the 18,000 same-sex marriages that have already taken place. This boils down to "This group of 36,000 people are okay, but no more!" In what kind of cuckooland does this make sense? Furthermore, it took them this long to reach the weakest ruling they could have mustered. How very milquetoast of them.

I'm very disappointed. I know we'll rally. I know good will ultimately prevail (right, Mom?), but I also know that good needs a swift kick in the keister to get moving. I'm tired of this back-and-forth over something that seems so simple. Once again, it's a civil rights issue, not a religious one. Even God would agree...

Labels: news

Saturday was Bean's 7-month birthiversary. We celebrated by going to this park and playing on the swings (big hit) and chilling out in the shade (bigger hit).


On the blanket, Bean practiced his crawling, which is _thisclose_ to being a full-on crawl. Depending on the surface, he'll either do what we call "scrabbling" or he'll use his head as a means of locomotion. On a smooth surface (like wood floors) he'll scrabble, which is a cross between a dog paddle stroke and actual crawling. He revs his engines and all 4 limbs work like mad to propel him a foot or two. It's grossly inefficient, but he can get from point A to B with surprising speed. On a softer surface (like our bed), his butt goes up in the air and pulls himself forward by putting his forehead down and bending his neck. Talk about using your head...

On the flip side, his periods of inactivity (sleep) are changing. From time to time he'll go down for a monster nap. Rather than his typical 45-minute jobbie, he'll crash for 2 hours. When these long naps happen during the week, it's fantastic. Sweetie can get a whole mess of work done without interruption. When they happen on the weekend, they usually torpedo any social plans we may have had. But a nap's a nap so I'll take it!

Labels: Bean, monthly recap

I'm a bit of a font dork. (Actually, I'm a dork in general, but that's a different post for another day.) I like looking at signage and seeing if I recognize the font. One of my favorite signs in LA is on the no-longer-in-business House of a Thousand Fabrics. I love the mid-century script they used:


Given this, it should come as no surprise that I decided to create an alphabet series for Bean. I used 26 fonts; each font name begins with the letter of the alphabet it's representing. I still don't know what I want to do with it - wallpaper border? Framed art? Big poster?


Any ideas?


The fonts - in case you're as big a dork as me (in which case: hi! drop me a line!) - are:

Aardvark Cafe
Bauhaus 93
Caitlyn
Daly Hand
Eco-Files
Farang
Giddyup
Halbstarke
Informal Roman
Jester
Kawoszeh
Larabie
Madfont
Nickelodeon
Old English Text
Patrick
Quixotte
RaggMopp
Sala de Fiestas
Transformers
Ultima Campagnoli
Vendetta
Weirdmojo
XenoWort
Yellow Submarine
Zebrra

Labels: Bean, time wasters

My youngest niece would "hide" in the dog's crate. We were happy to oblige and play along. Besides, who knew a crate could be so useful? Apparently, we weren't thinking hard enough, because here's yet another use for them!

Labels: misc

I wake up every morning with a song in my head. It sounds much more upbeat and happy than it actually is. Most mornings I have some inane song - or worse, just one line of a song - stuck for the majority of the day. The song or snippet will loop ad nauseam and it drives me buggy.

Today, I got a bit of a twist. In addition the the mental jukebox selection (which, by the way is "I Love to Laugh" from Mary Poppins... somebody please kill me) I woke with random vocabulary words, too. Like a gerbil in a wheel, my brain is cycling through the song and throwing in "terpsichorean" and "churlish" Tourettes-style.

Seriously, what. the. hell?


I've found the best way to get the song out of my head is by infecting someone else with it.



You're welcome.

Labels: misc

I know, I know... I haven't posted in forever and you are sick of seeing Sarah (funny though she may be). So how about a video of our favorite Bean instead? The video quality is crap, but that's what you get from a cell phone. Rather than focusing on the quality, enjoy the subject matter. It's his first time at the beach and his first time in a baby swing. Summer fun times ahead!

Labels: Bean