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Lea discussing the philosophy of social dadadadnymics

Couple of things for tonight gang. First of all the kid is an Internet genius. Lea is a fan of the computer. Kate and I are pretty sure the laptop has become her favorite toy. I've posted past pictures of her smacking the keys to hear the noise. Well apparently Lea has had a purpose pounding on the lapper this entire time. This evening Kate was doing some intensive reading about the affairs of the world on People.com. Lea rolled over to the computer and started pounding away. When Kate returned Lea had cruised the information super highway and landed on ms.com (MS Magazine, not a magazine a movement). She was able to both use Google and click on the fifth website that popped up. Brilliant and a feminist!!! WOOT! We couldn't be prouder. (granted our little ball of political savviness is playing with a cheese stick wrapper while kicking the fire place, hey a girl needs time to unwind)

Second thing. I'm posting some links to videos I've posted on youtube. (The video format my phone uses does not work with blogspot. I'm forced to use youtube.)

Talking:

First link is the best. Talking up a storm with a fantastic serious face at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLN3-Zrlrg

Next two are similar with the first--with the exception that my ridiculous voice ends up on the video as well. I sound dumb in real life. That makes me sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-FkJ92CCGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-IVB_Y0z4

Peace out

Pumpkins Pumpkins Pumpkins

Here are some more pumpkin pictures. By the way, I'd like to state that while backing up Lea's pictures I noticed that we have over 600 pictures of her. To put that into perspective, there are two baby pictures of me in existence. 600 to 2. Think about that. (And no I will not listen to a digital picture vs. film argument)

I swear we could give this kid a bail of hay and she'd be entertained for a month.

Lea ignoring her first boy. My job is done.

This is when people stop being polite and start getting real.

Lea vs. the Gourd. A struggle the likes which man has never see.

Lea in a basket. Pleased with me.

The Great Pumpkin Lea Brown

Don't you love that movie. The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Fantastic! My only problem was that when you expected to see the Great Pumpkin rise from the pumpkin patch, trust me I was always just as excited as Linus every time I watched that film, it turned out to be Snoopy. I always hoped that just one time, ONE TIME (I feel that caps are warranted), the real Great Pumpkin would rise out of that pumpkin patch. Alas, I feel that the late great Charles Shulz was trying to tell us something there. Not sure what. "Give up on our dreams" "DO stop believin'" I'm sure it was something important. And yes, I did watch too much TV when I was a kid.

Last weekend Kate, Lea and I join our buddies Nate, Bri and Trevin Laughlin (http://nblaughlin.blogspot.com/2010/10/great-start-sort-of-to-october.html) in visiting a pumpkin patch. It was a wonderful place to take photos. I've got lots of good ones here. Enough for another post. The pumpkin patch had all sorts of good stuff for kids, unfortunately our little ones were too little to care about the petting zoo and all the other animals.

Single best thing I saw there was a giant inflatable caterpillar. They type you'd see at a carnival, or fair. One that kids play inside. Here's the kicker, the kids exited the caterpillar by coming out the rear end. Not much funnier than seeing a kid randomly crawl out the backside of a giant caterpillar. Good times.

Lea holding my leg down. Kate trying to steal money out of my pocket.

Lea thinking about how she broke the lamp light.

More concerned with the hay than the camera.

Lea with Trevin. Working hard at being cute.

Lea laughing at kids crawling out of the caterpillar. She has my sense of humor.

Broken Lights and Shattered Diapers

Dearest Public (I mean my 11 loyal readers),

Ti's been too long for whence I last addressed thee with a new declaration. I've been meaning to post my pontifications for nary a fortnight.

Okay, that was dumb. Not sure why I try. (remember last post, I'm done trying. HA!) Lots of things to discuss--which means tonight I'll be crafting a super-post. Okay, really it's just like a normal post--TIMES TWO!!!!

We shall start our adventure of light and magic two weeks ago (I told you, a fortnight!). Crap, it was actually three weeks ago. Where does the time go. Really, someone tell me. Where was I, oh yes, three weeks ago...

Lea's daycare provider was off on her own adventure. (Disneyland/world. Something like that. Happiest place on Earth my foot...don't get me started on Disney. Okay I'm already started. Not a fan. Granted, I've never been there, but I'm assuming if I've never graced the place with my presence it must not be worth going. We'll be taking Lea to Civil War battlefield's for every vacation. What's better than a wide open field for her to play. She can use her real imagination, rather than being frightened by that scary rat...mouse and his dog. Whenever I go on these rants Kate tells me I'm dumb. I don't believe her. Neither should you.) Rather than letting Lea fend for herself at home (which was my plan--how else is she supposed learn survival skills, I mean she's eight months now. Time to take the training wheels. It's the 21st century for heaven sakes) Lea's Grandma Evans, or Su as we'll be referring to her the rest of the story, came to babysit. Su reported that the weekend went along without incident. Lea kept to her schedule while attempted to get Grandma to buy her anything and everything. Lots of fun, and it was great to have an extra set of hands around Lea for a week. Amazing how much a person can get done when it's 3 on 1 (adults to baby's).

Last week at some point Lea starting breaking things-which is as cool as it sounds. She has a fun game she plays when we her change diaper. She now rolls over and grabs stuff. It's fine when she grabs tissue, butt cream, or wipes. It's not so cool when she grabs the lamp sitting on the changing table--which is her favorite of course. Apparently, she is now strong enough to pull the lap down, which is what she did. This lead me to reach out and stop the falling lamp from crushing her, which lead to a light within the lamp to pop. Lea's reaction? A whole lotta nothin'. Kid wasn't remorseful (doesn't bode we'll for the future--there is a section I was going to type here that would compare Lea to something but this was edited out by Kate, thought I'd let you know). She also didn't thank me for saving her life. Just stared at me. Ungrateful little bald munchkin.

Okay I have another story but it'll come with the next post. Enjoy the pictures!!!!!!

Lea attempting to grab Grandma Evans' glasses.

Lea is the pretty dress given to her from her Uncle Chris and Aunt Joy. (From Hawaii. They brought us a Hawaiian pineapple. Anyone who like pineapple but has never had a Hawaiian pineapple, don't ever eat one. They ruin all other pineapples. No Joke, they are that good. Would I lie? Okay that's probably a yes, but seriously I'm telling the truth)

Grandma Evans and Lea.

Happy Munchkin.

Picture her Rollin'

I cannot remember if I've posted about this or not. Granted I can't remember much of what I've said or done since school started. Regardless, Lea is mobile now.



Not walking mobile, or crawling mobile, she's actually rolly polly mobile. She rolls. Everywhere and on everything. Her new game is rolling on her changing pad. Whole lotta fun when her diaper is off. Makes diaper changing time so much more enjoyable. Kate loves it.



She also now rolls in the crib. She's become a sneaky stomach sleeper. Pretty easy to tell when she has a red mark on her face and there's a giant drool spot on her sheet.



Now for some visual evidence. (Notice how I'm trying less on my blogging since school started. No, you didn't notice? I'm ashamed of you. Go back and read my back catalogue and return to this point. I'll wait........humm....... back? Now, see. I'm trying less. Just throwing that out there. Personally, I think the kid is just getting boring. I mean really, it's not me, it's her.)



Picture time!

Lea started in the bottom right hand corner of the picture. If you cannot find her, she's in the upper left and corner. I believe she's playing with diaper boxes. We're attempting to teacher her how to change her own diapers. We've had mixed results.

Ignore my dumb look.


Lea before the roll.

She rolls and she's into grabbing things. This kinda reminds me of the last scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You know, Indy is reaching for the Holy Grail, and James Bond tells him to let it go. You don't know? Really? You apparently are spending too much time reading or getting out of the house. I suggest you starting renting more movies and spending some quality time in front of the T.V.

Round 1. FIGHT!

30 seconds of video. The first 5-10 are nothing special. Then it gets awesome. Thing to note, Kate was trying to sleep. Also, when Kate talks to Lea pretend a deep voice shouts, "FINISH HER!"

I call this Lea's Heels of Death. (Okay, it was much funnier in person than when I watched it. Kate's look at the camera is priceless)