I heard this story from a lady at the park whose son plays with Owen and Stewart sometimes.
She said they were at the mall and passed a fountain.
"Mommy," her son said, "Give me a quarter, I want to make a wish."
So he threw the quarter in and wished for Scooby-Doo toys.
Then she threw a quarter in and wished, outloud, that her son would "be a good boy and listen to his Mommy."
"Mommy," he said. "Can I have another quarter?"
"Sure," she said, and gave him one.
Tossing it into the fountain, he said "I unwish my Mom's wish."
Friday, January 26, 2007
Da Rules
Two new rules that had to be instituted in the Ford Household:
1. If you touch your butt, make sure you wash your hands.
2. If it goes in your mouth, it doesn't go in your butt.
It's best not to inquire about the series of events that inspired these rules.
1. If you touch your butt, make sure you wash your hands.
2. If it goes in your mouth, it doesn't go in your butt.
It's best not to inquire about the series of events that inspired these rules.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Top 10 SpongeBobs
Just because I've seen every SpongeBob ever, multiple times, and I still find many of them funny, here's my TOP TEN FAVORITE SPONGEBOB EPISODES, in no particular order.
1. No Weenies Allowed - This is the one where SpongeBob tries to get into The Salty Spitoon, the toughest sailor's club, but is repeatedly kept out by the bouncer who suggests that he belongs at Super Weenie Hut Jr.'s.
2. One Krab's Trash - Kyle's favorite episode. This is the one where Mr. Krabs sells SpongeBob a beer drinking hat (which he calls a soda drinking hat) with a giant #1 on it, then discovers it's worth a million dollars and tries to get it back.
3. Shanghaied - The best of the Flying Dutchman episodes, it's the one where "Dutchy" gets SpongeBob and Patrick to be his ghostly crew and they're terrible at it.
4. Ripped Pants - I almost didn't include this because I've seen it so many times it almost nauseates me, but it's just such a classic.
5. Skill Crane - Squidward can't rest until he wins a stuffed animal from Mr. Krabs's crane machine, meanwhile SpongeBob wins over and over again, driving him nuts.
6. Rock Bottom - Patrick and SpongeBob end up on the wrong bus and travel to Rock Bottom, which is populated with weird monsters whose speech is peppered with childish spitting noises (their "accent").
7. Grandma's Kisses - SpongeBob is embarassed after everyone at the Krusty Krab sees him get a kiss from his Grandma and decides to be more adult. He doesn't last long, however, and at the end bursts out with a classic speech about wanting "a kissy wissy on his boo-boo" and a "sweater with love in the stitches!" I like to quote it to the boys when they're being whiny.
8. Club SpongeBob - Another classic episode for quoting; SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward are stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but SpongeBob and Patrick's talking conch shell, which gives vague advice like a Magic 8 ball. Of course, SpongeBob and Patrick follow its advice and get everything they need which drives Squidward nuts.
9. Have You Seen This Snail? - Gary runs away and gets taken in by a kindly old Grandma who stuffs him with food. Sometimes I chase the boys around while quoting Grandma- "You don't want these to go to waste! They were a labor of love! You don't want cookies? I made a nice batch of deviled eggs!" etc.
10. Whale of a Birthday - Pearl wants the boy band Boys Who Cry to play for her birthday, but of course Mr. Krabs is too cheap to pony up the dough and hires Squidward instead.
1. No Weenies Allowed - This is the one where SpongeBob tries to get into The Salty Spitoon, the toughest sailor's club, but is repeatedly kept out by the bouncer who suggests that he belongs at Super Weenie Hut Jr.'s.
2. One Krab's Trash - Kyle's favorite episode. This is the one where Mr. Krabs sells SpongeBob a beer drinking hat (which he calls a soda drinking hat) with a giant #1 on it, then discovers it's worth a million dollars and tries to get it back.
3. Shanghaied - The best of the Flying Dutchman episodes, it's the one where "Dutchy" gets SpongeBob and Patrick to be his ghostly crew and they're terrible at it.
4. Ripped Pants - I almost didn't include this because I've seen it so many times it almost nauseates me, but it's just such a classic.
5. Skill Crane - Squidward can't rest until he wins a stuffed animal from Mr. Krabs's crane machine, meanwhile SpongeBob wins over and over again, driving him nuts.
6. Rock Bottom - Patrick and SpongeBob end up on the wrong bus and travel to Rock Bottom, which is populated with weird monsters whose speech is peppered with childish spitting noises (their "accent").
7. Grandma's Kisses - SpongeBob is embarassed after everyone at the Krusty Krab sees him get a kiss from his Grandma and decides to be more adult. He doesn't last long, however, and at the end bursts out with a classic speech about wanting "a kissy wissy on his boo-boo" and a "sweater with love in the stitches!" I like to quote it to the boys when they're being whiny.
8. Club SpongeBob - Another classic episode for quoting; SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward are stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but SpongeBob and Patrick's talking conch shell, which gives vague advice like a Magic 8 ball. Of course, SpongeBob and Patrick follow its advice and get everything they need which drives Squidward nuts.
9. Have You Seen This Snail? - Gary runs away and gets taken in by a kindly old Grandma who stuffs him with food. Sometimes I chase the boys around while quoting Grandma- "You don't want these to go to waste! They were a labor of love! You don't want cookies? I made a nice batch of deviled eggs!" etc.
10. Whale of a Birthday - Pearl wants the boy band Boys Who Cry to play for her birthday, but of course Mr. Krabs is too cheap to pony up the dough and hires Squidward instead.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Educating Kyle
I've decided that Kyle is the American version of Karl Pilkington. Seriously.
Today I had the following conversation with Kyle:
Me: What would prevent someone from bidding on their own items on eBay in order to start a bidding war and drive up prices? Couldn't I just go in under a different user name and bid on stuff that I'm selling?
Kyle: Well, yeah, but then you'd have to pay for it.
Wow. Where do I even begin?
Today I had the following conversation with Kyle:
Me: What would prevent someone from bidding on their own items on eBay in order to start a bidding war and drive up prices? Couldn't I just go in under a different user name and bid on stuff that I'm selling?
Kyle: Well, yeah, but then you'd have to pay for it.
Wow. Where do I even begin?
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Wii love it!
I can't believe how much Wii has been played in this house in the last month.
Between me, Owen and Kyle, we've probably clocked about four hours daily since Kyle brought it home in November.
Owen has reached the professional level in Wii Sports bowling, I have finished about half of Twilight Princess, and Kyle, having successfully carved up patients in the simulated surgery game Trauma Center: Second Opinion, is now considering medical school.
No, not really.
But the Wii has truly furnished great entertainment for our whole family this holiday season. Owen loves to explore old games like Super Mario 64, and Sonic the Hedgehog, because they're all new to him.
Stewart adores Disney's Cars game because he can play as all of his favorite characters in the movie. Usually, though, he just likes to watch someone else play. He loves cheering us on ("Good job Owie, you stomped that bad guy!"), and takes the plots of all games quite seriously. He was truly anxious about Princess Peach in Mario 64. He didn't even want Kyle to quit the game- he was like "No, we need to save the Princess first!" Whenever Bowser laughs, he gets scared and runs to hide in the other room.
It's no surprise that classic kid's games like Mario Brothers would be a hit with Owen and Stewart, but I'm surprised at how much they like role playing games like The Legend of Zelda.
Owen likes playing the initial pieces of the Zelda games, when you get to explore the home village and gather your equipment, but once he encounters his first monster, he always screams "Ah! Bad guys!" and hands the controller to Kyle or I.
This suits Kyle and I perfectly, as we get to play hours of the video games we love, and the boys actually enjoy watching and aren't bothering us by begging for a turn or asking for snacks.
I'm playing through Windwaker again to entertain the boys, and through Twilight Princess for myself, and the boys enjoy watching both games.
They make up their own hilarious names for enemies- like the Choos from Windwaker are "jelly booms" (actually a better name than Choos, if you ask me), and all of the water is "applesauce" (as in, "Mommy, you fell in that applesauce!").
They get so excited when I open a new chest- they like when it's red or purple "money" (rupees), but they like it even better when it's "the key!" They get frustrated when I can't figure out the puzzles, just like I do.
It's almost as much fun to watch the boys interact with the Wii as to play it myself. But not quite.
Between me, Owen and Kyle, we've probably clocked about four hours daily since Kyle brought it home in November.
Owen has reached the professional level in Wii Sports bowling, I have finished about half of Twilight Princess, and Kyle, having successfully carved up patients in the simulated surgery game Trauma Center: Second Opinion, is now considering medical school.
No, not really.
But the Wii has truly furnished great entertainment for our whole family this holiday season. Owen loves to explore old games like Super Mario 64, and Sonic the Hedgehog, because they're all new to him.
Stewart adores Disney's Cars game because he can play as all of his favorite characters in the movie. Usually, though, he just likes to watch someone else play. He loves cheering us on ("Good job Owie, you stomped that bad guy!"), and takes the plots of all games quite seriously. He was truly anxious about Princess Peach in Mario 64. He didn't even want Kyle to quit the game- he was like "No, we need to save the Princess first!" Whenever Bowser laughs, he gets scared and runs to hide in the other room.
It's no surprise that classic kid's games like Mario Brothers would be a hit with Owen and Stewart, but I'm surprised at how much they like role playing games like The Legend of Zelda.
Owen likes playing the initial pieces of the Zelda games, when you get to explore the home village and gather your equipment, but once he encounters his first monster, he always screams "Ah! Bad guys!" and hands the controller to Kyle or I.
This suits Kyle and I perfectly, as we get to play hours of the video games we love, and the boys actually enjoy watching and aren't bothering us by begging for a turn or asking for snacks.
I'm playing through Windwaker again to entertain the boys, and through Twilight Princess for myself, and the boys enjoy watching both games.
They make up their own hilarious names for enemies- like the Choos from Windwaker are "jelly booms" (actually a better name than Choos, if you ask me), and all of the water is "applesauce" (as in, "Mommy, you fell in that applesauce!").
They get so excited when I open a new chest- they like when it's red or purple "money" (rupees), but they like it even better when it's "the key!" They get frustrated when I can't figure out the puzzles, just like I do.
It's almost as much fun to watch the boys interact with the Wii as to play it myself. But not quite.
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