A couple of days ago I was working at the computer when Apollo approached me with his mouth full. If I'm unaware of what might be in his mouth, I do the "squeeze the cheeks together and sweep the finger through for any foreign objects" check. In doing so, I found a hot tamale. He was quite enjoying it too, so I let him finish. I later found out that he had swiped the candy from Sascha's Halloween stash. It's one of the very few candies that Sascha wouldn't want to eat anyway.
My kids are kind of whimpy when it comes to trying new things (anything spicy or has a sauce or dressing on it). But not Apollo. He likes pickles, green olives, lemons, salsa, condiments, etc... I made the mistake with Sarah and Sascha of only giving plain foods to them when they were younger. Therefore, when I cook a nice meal, they usually don't care for it. So Apollo is being trained to like everything. So far so good.... Wish I had thought of that with the first two.

My friend wanted me to help her post a slideshow on her blog, so I wanted to try one out first before I help her with hers. These are just some random pics. I think it turned out pretty good though eh?

For those of you who know of my desire to make a "wall of fame" in my entryway of photos taken with celebrities, I just struck GOLD! The other day I was telling my better half that he should try and find the photos that were taken by some Seattle photographer when he brushed shoulders with Senator John McCain. Well, today we have those very photos. Yay! Thought I'd better share them since everyone knows who he is.

They grow up WAY TOO FAST!
Here's Punkin a year ago at 8 months:




And here he is one year later...

He'll be writing his first thesis next week on "Why eating day old chicken out of the garbage tastes good," and "Dumping Cheerios all over the kitchen floor is therapeutic."

A little memento from the election.

What a hectic day for me, Halloween. To begin with, it was going to be my first day to sort of sleep in since I'd been getting up with the kids all week. The kids get to wear their costumes to school and Sascha was distraught over the fact that he couldn't find the jacket to his costume. Steve, Sascha and I searched in every nook and cranny, but no luck. He ended up missing his bus so Steve took him to school. I assured him that I would run by Value Village and pick him up a different one before he would need to have it for the parading around the school.
So I bypassed Apollo's morning nap so we could go tackle the task at hand. Luckily I found a decent jacket and was able to run it to his school. When I got there he notified me that he left his mask at home so I got to go run home (only two minutes away from the school luckily!), grab it and take it back to him.