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Nikki Goes Off Her Medication

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As anyone that knows Nikki well knows, she likes to laugh.  She is a good laugher.  It’s one of her most attractive qualities, really.

She does however have a slight tendency to get rather stuck sometimes.  Like in a loop.  An endless one.  There’s nothing you can do until she passes out, really.  If you haven’t been there when she has one of her turns, I took the liberty of filming a recent episode. 

Witness:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpYdLtnGQfY&feature=youtube_gdata

We do have a doctor’s appointment later this week to see what he can do about her medications, time will tell how it all goes.

A new year

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Blog posts are scarce, but all is not lost. I’ve started a real job at Microsoft and have been a busy geek lately. More to come for sure, dear readers. Bear with me!

The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas

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Well it seems that we just might have a Christmas after all, despite my best efforts to let the children see all of their gifts ahead of time.  In the spirit of the season, I think we should all realize that it IS possible to have a worse Christmas.  Witness the tragedy of Hyperbole and a Half’s childhood re-enactment of the story of baby Jesus.  Trust me, you won’t regret it.

My god, Kenny Loggins?  I was crying by that point….

Xmasleaks

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It seems that after a very successful run in the parenting game Nikki and I have had our first breach of security.  It’s a huge embarrassment for our organization as you can imagine.  A debriefing on this incident follows:

I did some almost last-minute shopping last night and returned home late.  The lads were still up with Nikki, so I left the parcels in the van and went inside.  After we finally wound the night down, Nikki and I were so tired we decided to leave the gifts in the van for the night. (you can easily see where this is going)

This morning Nik stayed home from work to take Jordy to an appointment, and was taking the boys to daycare for the duration so they wouldn’t be bored.  She got their coats on, and told them to get into the van ahead of her.  Needless to say when she got to the van the boys’ eyeballs were practically popping out of their heads from ogling the skateboards and video games that didn’t even have shopping bags to conceal their very identifiable shapes.

Nikki realized what had happened, and bowed her head in defeat.  The only thing that really has saved us so far is as far as we know they haven’t put it together that one of these things was actually on their Santa list.  Incredibly Quinn still believes, which for a kid as logical and rational as him is rather a surprise.

We went to Bayshore a few days ago and Cael wanted to go and see the mall Santa there.  Quinn would have none of it, and went so far as to call him a “fake Santa”, and mentioning that he would not be tricked this year.  I bent down and mentioned that while he may not believe, other kids in the line (including his brother, somehow) probably still did believe, and that maybe he could keep his opinions to himself for a time.  His muttered response?

“That guy isn’t the real Santa.  The real Santa lives on the North Pole, this is just a guy in a suit.”

So, Quinn is for the moment still hanging on to it.  Cael as you already know believes with the clear-eyed conviction of a zealot.

Time will tell if this morning’s discovery will disturb this faith.

Cael’s Christmas List for Santa

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It seems that our youngest child has been on a roll lately, thought I would share some of the fun with you.

Cael on eating pizza:

I would like one piece of pizza because I am fit and thin

Cael on receiving his new hockey team toque (which he hasn’t taken off his head in the three days since):

Mmmm, it still has that new toque smell.

Cael giving a mall Santa his modest list of Christmas gift wishes:

An EXACT mannequin of himself
A jetpack
A skateboard half-pipe
The ability to levitate.

Yes, of course, Santa has a whole WHACK of extra Cael mannequins just LAYING (literally) around.  These don’t sound like normal 6 year old demands, do they?   What does a new toque smell like?  Will I look back on these things later and hit myself in the forehead and say “It was all right there, why didn’t I see the signs he was starting to display super-villain tendencies?”.