Cerebrate Good Times

All parents have tricks they use for getting babies to sleep (at least, the ones who haven't yet been committed to a mental institution), and one of the most popular methods involves rocking your baby to sleep with soft music. (Pro tip: In my experience, horror movies are less than ideal for getting your kids to sleep.) With Sam, we used a CD of gentle piano music. And now we've found something that seems to work for Allison. Your job is to guess what it is. a. Greatest Military Marches - The Very Best of John Philip Sousa b. Stunt by Barenaked Ladies c. The Phantom of the Opera (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) d. Nacho Libre (The Motion Picture Soundtrack) e. Now That's What I Call Music, Vol. 29 Go.

Tonight I took Sam to a Halloween store to look at costumes, so he could start deciding what he wants to be. Here's our conversation on the way home. "Sam, what do you want to be for Halloween?" "A snake spider bat chipmunk squirrel ghost."

Most people in my family, including me, eat corn on the cob in rows, like a typewriter. But some eat rings around it. What do you do?

There was a giant robot composed of many parts held together by magnets that crashed to earth as a meteorite, and I had to stop it. Stopping it involved sand and water, and then for some reason I got a snake to wiggle inside of it and eat its heart, which was apparently something akin to a mouse, or something equally desirable to a snake. And the earth was safe again. But for how long ?

(in no particular order) Caramello Milky Way Kit Kat U-no Almond Joy What about you?

Last week we started giving Allison rice cereal. Here's how she reacted.

Yesterday afternoon I had the opportunity to lie down for about half an hour, but as I prepared for my little nap I heard a strange scraping sound. A little investigation revealed that some branches from the neighbor's tree were scraping along the eaves of our house. I had to get up on the roof to be able to trim the branches. While I was up there I noticed just how overgrown their trees are. Some of the branches overhanging our roof will require a chainsaw to remove. So, combined with the additional plumbing problems we experienced a week ago courtesy of roots in the pipes (yes, plumbing problems again ), I think it may be time these trees have a little... accident.