All the Cousins

Despite the trouble trying to photograph the kids at Tali's party, we tried again this week to much better results.

Taking Pictures of Kids is Not Easy

It's been one of Mama Poop's fondest dreams to get a good picture of all her grandchildren together. But photographing one wiggly rascal is hard enough, never mind 3. And now that Lyla's here, the grandchildren picture seems like a pipe dream. But at Tali's party we tried to do the best we could.
Here's what happened:


No Chase, stay here:


Don't worry Uncle Paul, I'll hold him:


Oops:


Ok, let's try this sitting down:


This is the best we're gonna get:


And a bonus photo of the birthday girl:

Reason Why I Love Mrs. Poop #415,769

On her first Halloween my niece Cayla was a butterfly, because Mrs. Bates loves butterflies.





On her first Halloween my niece Jenna was a sunflower, because Step On Me loves sunflowers.



Because Chase is already a baby, Mrs. Poop dressed Chase up this year as something I love.

Silly Hats

Mama and Papa Poop recently traveled to Alaska. She spent every day shopping and came back with these ridiculous hats for her very put upon grandchildren.

Kidstock

Mrs. Poop and I spent Sunday with our nieces, Cayla and Jenna (and their parents) in Central Park for a concert. A free concert by Laurie Berkner. If you've never heard of her, you will. Someday. I must admit I was very wrong. I expected 2,000 - 3,000 people. There were that many people named "Madison."




Cayla got to the park at around 10am because she wanted to get a good spot, and then the rest of us snuck in right before the concert started. Laurie came on at about 1, and her first song was an Izzie favorite, "Victor Vito." Victor Vito is the story of two polar bears on a trip around the United States discovering the local food like rice and beans (in New Mexico), tobasco (in New Orleans) and spaghetti (in New York). But they also discover themselves.

Note: links on song titles will direct you to the music video from noggin. It will launch a windows media player but you will have to sit through a ten second open before the song starts.




The second song was the club banger, "Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz)." This song is sort of like "Ruff Ryderz Anthem" for kids. But instead of 6 idiots jumping around in 920 Ackerman, there were 6000 toddlers jumping around in Central Park. And instead of "Stop! Drop! Shut em down open up shop," there is "buzz buzz buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz buzz buzz-buzz!"

They also played a Cayla favorite "Catch You," which she sang while running away from Aunt Step On Me. Mrs. Poop likes this song because on Thursday you are supposed to have yourself a nurse day.

We also heard the educational "We are the Dinosaurs" which teaches kids about prehistoric creatues and the possible ramifications of global warming, as well as how to march, for those children who aspire to military careers. Whaddya think of that?

Then came my least favorite song, "Let's Go Swimming." Before this song, if you said to Cayla "Let's Go..." she would reply "Mets!." But this song ruined all of that. Now if you try it she says "SWIMMING!" Fish don't take showers. And noses and toeses don't rhyme. Well, they do rhyme but only because toeses isn't a word.

One of the last songs is appropriately title "Pig on Her Head." I think you can figure that one out.

Just Jenna

Jenna Visits

Our Day With Jenna

Last weekend Kate and I had the pleasure of spending the day with our adorable little niece, Jenna.

And So She Grows

My littlest niece, Jenna is almost a week old and she already has her own website. My brother-in-law promises to track her progress on andsoshegrows.com.

Finally

After 2 days in the hospital my sister finally had Jenna Ryan at 5:50 PM on July 1.