Soccer Double-Header

This morning Mikey's soccer team had a double-header... they played the one team in their league that beat them the first time around about a month ago. The first time Mikey's team went down I think 4-0... this time it was tied at the end of the game, and we barely lost in the shootout (what is a shootout, you ask?) final score 3-2. Mikeys team played MUCH better this time... the other team was frankly lucky to beat them!

In the second game, Mikey's team beat the tar out of the other team, I think 9-0 (I kind of lost track when it became clear that it was basically a rout). They did a great job!

I keep being impressed with Mikey's progress as a soccer player. He's gotten so much more confident and aggressive! He's not a superstar on his team quite yet... there are quite a few really good players on Mikey's team. On one of the weaker teams, he would definitely be a key player. But even on his team, Mikey gets plenty of chances to shine! We are SO proud of him!

Football

Sunday a week ago I was home with just Hannah watching the Dallas Cowboys game. She watched a good bit of the first quarter with me, and now every time she sees football on TV, she says, "Dallas Cowboys?" She said it last night at Applebee's when the Monday Night Football came on. How do you say, no sweetie, that's the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos. :-) I think I'll just let her think the game is called "Dallas Cowboys" for a while. Only time it would be a problem is if we're ever watching Bedlam with some OU fans... then I'll probably have some quick 'splainin' to do!

Major Cutie Here!

Hangin' out, enjoying her chocolate milk!

Baby Latin

A few days ago Cathy and Hannah were coloring. Cathy was making a Jack-o'-lantern, and told Hannah it was a "pumpkin" (actually, at the time Cathy hadn't added the face yet, so what she said was true). Hannah turned to me and said, "Mama is cah-yay a punkin." It was a good example of how she's starting to make fairly long sentences now at 22 months! (Plus, it was TOTALLY CUTE!!)

If you didn't figure it out, by the way, "cah-yay" is about as close to "color" as Hannah gets right now. I think it's binky-in-mouth syndrome; ending "R"'s turn into "yay". Another good example of her binky-in-mouth baby-Latin: "Wah-yay" (what falls from the sky when it rains).

Happy Used-To-Be-Fall-Back-Day Day

If this year was 2006, today would have been the day of the time change. Since it is not 2006, however, today was not time change day, and the people of this great nation got up and got out to church at the right time.

Except for the people at the Jones residence.

You see, in the year 2005 or so, I had the brilliant idea of purchasing an alarm clock that sets itself automatically based on radio signals from the atomic clocks. Of course, this clock needs to know two things in order to have the correct time: which time zone it is in, and whether daylight-saving time is in effect. Easy enough; when you first get the clock, you set the time zone yourself, and then the clock knows what day DST occurs. No problem, right?

EXCEPT when freaking Congress changes the date of DST for the first time in my entire LIFETIME. Apparently what was good for the USA for every year between 1966 and 2006 was just no longer sufficient.

And our alarm clock has the dates of DST hard-coded into it.

Why not, right? I mean, it's been that way for forty years! (Okay, well, not exactly the same... but the same since the 1980s, anyway.) What were the chances that it would suddenly change within the lifetime of a digital clock from Wal-Mart? Well, apparently I rolled the dice and lost... not only does my clock change at the wrong time, but you can't shut the DST feature off, and you can't reconfigure the date. So now not only do I have to reset my clock on the weekends that everyone else has to do it, but I have to reset it on two other weekends, too! I have it on my Google calendar, and I've always remembered every time after the first time... but not today. Today I got up at 9:00 and thought it was 8:00 until I looked at my wristwatch. D'OH!!!

I was able to get ready in time, and so was Mikey. No such luck for Cathy and Hannah... they didn't make it today. I recorded the message on my MP3 player, so I'm listening to it with Cathy now. :)

Melinda's Wedding: Photo Booth Pictures

At the wedding we attended and sang at a couple of weeks ago, there was a photo booth where you could take instant pictures of yourself for free. The pictures are FINALLY available to look at on the Web, and here are the ones starring us:

Mikey & Michael - this strip is fun to look at because Mikey was in there by himself at first, but he was a little bit short for the camera. I had to pick him up so he'd be in the last two pictures!

Mikey & Cathy - that Mikey. Never a dull moment. My favorite from this strip is the third picture, which is apparently a picture of my wife pretending to be a vampire sucking my son's blood, while holding the strip of pictures from above, while my two fingers make a guest appearance!

Isn't Cathy a cutie? :)

Cathy with Deedee & Melaine - the two ladies on either side of Cathy are her cousins, who happen to be twins. Picture #4... sheesh. Girls and their silly faces. :)

I wish I knew why the site requires you to give you an email address whenever you visit... I imagine it either has something to do with his shopping cart, or it's for clients who protect their albums with passwords. Anyway, I've put my email address in a number of times and haven't gotten any spam or had any trouble, so I wouldn't be too worried about it. If you like, you can make up a fictional email address using @example.com (pictures@example.com, wedding@example.com, something like that).

Lava Rock Jr.

Mikey's new pet toad, Lava Rock Junior!



(For anyone who doesn't know what's going on, we lost Lava Rock Esq. several weeks ago...)