Eating Healthy

On the way home from school the other day, Braylon asked if we could have strawberry cake after dinner. Knowing that I had a cake mix in the pantry at home, I told him that could probably be arranged.

After dinner and baths, I overheard Braylon talking to his Daddy while I put icing on the cake. Braylon asked if Daddy wanted any strawberry cake, to which Brandon responded, "No thanks. I'm trying to eat healthy."

Braylon quickly responded with, "I'm not trying to eat healthy, Dad - I'm trying to eat strawberry cake."

Thankful

Last night around the dinner table we got into a conversation about what we're all thankful for (brought on by a discussion of the Thanksgiving holiday). Braylon, Daddy and Mommy were listing many different things that we are each thankful for while Blaine sat quietly listening. After several minutes, I turned to Blaine and asked, "And what are you thankful for, Blaine?" Of course, the first thing out of this mouth was, "food." Then Braylon turns to him and says, "What else, Blaine." Blaine thought a moment, pointed to his chest and said, "Blaine!"

Brandon laughed and said, "Yep. He's your kid alright!"

Coughing Remedy

I have been suffering from my usual seasonal allergies the past week or so. With me, allergy problems manifest one of two ways. Either I get a killer sinus headache with face congestion or I get the coughs. You know the coughs I mean - The wake you in the night nearly throwing up coughs.

So recently when I read in a parent's magazine this cough remedy I said in my mind to try it the next time I cough in the night. Here is is: Tried and true. Worked for me:

Apply Vick's Vapo Rub liberally on the bottom of your feet and put on socks. I also put Vick's on my chest and back for added measure. Took about 10 minutes and I was back in bed snoozing as usual.

Early Bird

Ever since the time change, little Blaine hasn't gotten it into his head that he should still sleep until 7 a.m. His little bio-rhythms are skewed. Today he woke up at 5:45 a.m. just singing happily in his bed. By the time his Daddy got him out of bed at 6 a.m. he was full speed ahead and ready to roll for the day. Ahhh.... If we could all wake up with that much stamina! God bless him! (Grampy, I do believe he inherited this from you!)

Movie Review: Spiderman III DVD

First I have to say, that it took us 6 months to actually see this movie, although we tried two times to see this in the theaters to no avail! Both times we went to the theater, the movie had already left (both first run and dollar movies). Grrrr.... But, alas, we saw it this weekend. Here's my review:

Spiderman III - Rated PG13
Starring: Tobey Macguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church

Story line: The third in the Spiderman series, this film picks up with Spiderman 2 leaves off. Mary Jane knows that Peter Parker is Spidey, but so does his friend/nemesis Harry. Harry thinks that Peter killed his father and plots revenge off and on during most of the movie. Peter suffers from a puffed-up ego from all his Spiderman accolades and fails to give his girlfriend, MJ, enough time or attention. Peter and MJ go through spats and make ups all while Spiderman faces 4 bad guys - Yes, I said 4! Good always wins, but I won't spoil the details for you.

Becky's rating: A-

This seemed like the longest of all the movies, probably because of all the loose ends to tie together and the fact that they felt they needed 4 villains! In the previous two movies, Spidey has only faced 1 villain in each of the films, so having 4 to contend with took serious time. I feel that even though I enjoyed the storyline, the filmmakers were trying to pack in too much story in a short amount of time. They would have done better to remove at least 1 villain since they really didn't have time to develop any of them except one, that has been building up for all three movies. I also thought they needed to take out the cheesy song montage with Peter Parker dancing in and out of clothing stores and the stupid part where he embarrasses MJ at the jazz club. Those two parts left me scratching my head, saying, "WHY?" But, all in all, the film completed the story line that started back in 2002. All's well that ends well....

Bottom line: Go see it - But see #1 and #2 first because otherwise you'll be completely lost.

Fall Back

I remember thinking that the "fall back" time change was the coolest thing ever. I would usually make an event of it - Movies and snacks until at least 1 a.m. - I mean, I could sleep in until right before church started and still feel refreshed. Tricking Father Time....

And then I became a parent. Apparantly, 4 and 2 year olds don't get the concept of Daylight Savings Time or otherwise. Last night I let the kids stay up what would have been an hour past their normal bedtime in hope that we could at least delay our getting up by a little bit. The boys usually get up around 7 a.m., so I was hoping we could push to the new 6:30 a.m. by keeping them up.

But Blaine didn't the memo I guess. He must have sensed a change in the barometric pressure (ok, lame guess) because he was up at the new 4 a.m. ready to roll for the day. I was less than thrilled because I tried my old trick of staying up late...

Guess I'll never learn....

Music & Lyrics II

Correct: "For your goodness.... "
Braylon: "For your feelings..."

You could not convince him otherwise, either!