FrogMonkey and I were having a raspberry blowing session when he decided to try to give himself a raspberry on his own tummy. He started twisting and contorting, smashing his neck up against the arm of the couch and arching his tummy up into the air.
Afraid he would hurt himself I said, “Honey, I don’t think you can reach your own tummy.”
“Yes, I can.” He reached out a finger and poked himself in the belly. “See?”

Round about 4 a.m., just as the menopausal insomnia was starting to wear off, Logan suddenly thrashed in his bed and screamed “Ah! I need you mama! Where are you?”
Thankfully, after a quick reassuring hug he was calm again and eventually drifted back to sleep clutching my hand. This morning he seems completely unaware of last night but he has been talking a lot about a movie we went to see and a woman in it who had her eyes closed. (She was sleeping but there was a moment of doubt which I think must have affected him strongly.)

Today the FrogMonkey and I got to go for a ride on Grandma’s and Grandpa’s boat. They picked us up at a local dock on the way back to their regular moorage. We rode with them through the locks and got to see a great big NOAA research vessel, a fire rescue boat being hauled out on a dry dock and some folks paddling their surf boards.
FrogMonkey had so much fun he didn’t want to go home. Until he learned that I was taking home some of Grandma’s brownies and he wouldn’t get one until he got home. Then it was bye bye! Wanna go home!

The Professor took FrogMonkey on an overnight camping trip. The boy walked over four miles to the camp site and back to the parking lot. He was exhausted but had a wonderful time!

We went to “the farm house” on Vashon Island this weekend (or On-the-Vash Iwand as the FrogMonkey would say.) Went for one night and ended up staying three. FrogMonkey ate his weight in blackberries while we were there and had a great time playing with all his friends.

When we got back home to S’daddle we asked FrogMonkey what he liked best: Playing with Cheryl.

& c’est reparti pour 2h de Goa \o/’

Playlist:

Monkey Do
01. Etic – 1 Day
02. Fatali – I Believe
Mark V
03. Orbital Vision – Psychedelic Experience
04. Delirious – Break Point
Monkey Do
05. Sesto Sento – Drive 2 Drive (Visual Contact Rmx)
06. Life Extension – Judgement Day
Mark V
07. Hujaboy – Just A Freak
08. Kindzadza – Annihilation
Monkey Do
09. Wizard Lizard – Psy Joy
10. Rastaliens – Jungle Explosion
Mark V
11. Artifakt – Ohm
12. Tube – Epilectic
Monkey Do
13. Blisargon Demogorgon – Prepare For Love
14. Deviat Species – Human Intervention
Mark V
15. Syllabass vs U-Recken – Two Bastards
16. Blanka – Booo
Monkey Do
17. Scorb – Metabolic Activity
18. Space Tribe – Alternate Future (GMS vs Space Tribe Remix)
Mark V
19. Psyfactor – Child of Darkness
20. Shrink – Planet-X
Monkey Do
21. Zigganaut & Optik – You’re in Busienss

Total Playtime: 118 min & 17 sec

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Good trip

Rev. Al Sharpton, having no other plans for the day, just held a protest outside the New York Post’s headquarters to protest Sean Delonas‘ monkey cartoon. It’s more outrageous than Don Imus, sez the Rev!

Sharpton said it’s worse than Don Imus’ derogatory comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. The Post, Sharpton said, seems to play into the old stereotype of African Americans being monkeys. Sharpton says if the Post doesn’t “take some action” against Delonas and his editors, he’ll lead a boycott of advertisers.  To which Col Allan, we imagine, finished his Hot Pocket, licked his lips, turned to his editors, and said, “F*ck Al Sharpton.”

We can only hope that’s what Col Allan said (whoever Col Allan is).

Al Sharpton should be an embarrassment to the black community.  This is just silly.

H/T: Gawker

Posted:  02.19.09

Me: I love you

FM: Yeah…Hug…(starts to put arms around my neck then leaps up pointing) …TRUCK!

The other day FrogMonkey and I went for a walk. The snow had finally melted. The grandparents were no longer there to cater to his every whim. We were stir crazy. We put on our coats and headed out into minor gale force winds. We made it to the end of our lane without too much trouble but when we reached the main road the urban canyon effect took over. FrogMonkey was standing at a 45 degree angle and I wasn’t faring much better.

He picked up a handful of gravel from the neighbors driveway and launched it.

I decided we had better find a more sheltered place to play and suggested we head down the alley. We walked, me bracing FrogMonkey from behind with both hands on his back. We reached the alley and FrogMonkey toddled along the tire tracks like a cat at a door: always wanting to be on the other side. As he walked he chanted “Awey, Awey”.

We reached the bottom of the alley and he turned in to our friends driveway. “Awey, Awey.” He circled the large van parked there. “Awey, Awey.” He arrived at their back gate. “Awey.”

I tried to coax him back out into the alley as I didn’t want our friends to think we were lurking at their back window. “Awey!”

“Yes honey, back to the alley.” I coaxed a little harder.

“AWEY!” He pointed at their back door.

Hand to forehead, I realized my child is asking for his friend Ellie.

We walked up the stairs and knocked but Ellie was not home.

FrogMonkey is sitting here next to me as I sort through old posts, add pix, etc. I brought him a snack of almonds as I could hear his tummy rumbling and dinner is not yet ready. (Read: not started yet.)

He’s not eating the almonds so to try to jump start him I eat one. So he starts feeding them to me. He hands me an almond. I pop it in my mouth. I hold out my hand for the next and the next and the next. My concentration is completely on the screen in front of me.  He hands me a nut. I munch it. Put out my hand.

He puts a ladle in it.

Time to go make dinner.

We went  camping at Sand Point, Neah Bay a couple of weeks ago. We hiked in on the three mile board walk carrying all we needed for three nights. As soon as we got to the camp site and started setting up, FrogMonkey crawled out to the log drift and started working out his route to the beach. He had gotten a good 15 feet before we caught up with him. I carried him over the logs, set him in the sand and with a giggle, off he zoomed to the ocean. The coast by our camp site was a little bay of rocks, sand and tide pools. FrogMonkey crawled right in fully clothed and had himself a great little romp and splash at 7 pm. Suddenly he realized he was soaked through and freezing so I hauled him up to the site, peeled him down and got some dry clothes on him. Soon as he was warm he wanted to go back in.

Next day we took him to the other side of the point where the sand stretched for miles and the waves came rolling in. He crawled out into the water again and had fun chasing wavelets, crawling out a little farther after each wave withdrew. We had to keep a hand on him or he would have gone out to sea. We pulled him out kicking, screaming, red and shivering, wrapped him back up and headed to the tent for a nap. He’s never gone out so quickly as he did that trip. In fact, we have been having trouble getting him to nap at all since we have been home and he’s got the super crankies to prove it.

We had about 25 feet of logs between our camp site and open beach and FrogMonkey was determined to traverse it himself. By the time we left he was easily pulling himself on to logs, turning around and sliding feet first down even the biggest logs. (Yes, we were right behind him the while way.) This has turned out not to be a great thing as he managed to get himself on the kitchen table the other day. We keep the chairs pushed in now.

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I found my son trying to pop the top off a beer bottle … with his teeth. After that he rooted through the contents of his father’s stinky karate bag while grunting.

I’m worried.

Monkey see, monkey do:

 
Children see, children do:

I keep feeling guilty about not giving L cups to practice with. I mean he’s got his sippy cups and we try to use them during the day but they really are just glorified bottles.

So today I gave him the only kid size glass I’ve got. My old sorority shot glass.

He took some tentative sips. Coughed. Sputtered. Grinned. Reached for the glass again. You’d have thought I’d given him his first whiskey.

The second shot-full he slammed. One gulp. Grinned. Asked for more.

By the third shot he must have been getting tipsy. He sloshed it. Giggled. Upended the glass all over his tray. Giggled some more. Dipped his toast in the glass.

I cut him off.

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At the doctor’s office today, she asked FrogMonkey to open his mouth so she could count his teeth. He opened it just about big enough to admit a finger but not a flashlight.
She asked him to open wider. He didn’t budge.
Open really big.
Nothing.
Me: “Hey Bean, open your mouth like Papa is about to give you a bite of food.”
He opened his mouth as wide as it could possibly get.

Bonjour tout le monde ! Voila un mix de Dj Monkey Do, pour bien ce reveiller (oui je sais il est 12h passé xD )

Playlist:

• Shamanic Tribes on Acide – Fractal Splash
• Dreamland – Above Top Secret
• Echotek – Gas Per All
• Ghost a.k.a. Protoculture – Architextures
• Man with No Name – Skydiving
• Earthling – Patterns
• Younger Brother – Dwarves (Main Mix)
• Etnica – Screaming Butterfly
• Mandra Gora – Wicked Warp
• Slinky Wizard – Slinky Wizard
• Ghreg on Earth – Output Device
• DJ Jedi – Elements Of Madness (Thomas P. Heckmann Remix)
• Kontrsequenz – Binaler Otoplasticjumper
• Hallucinogen – L.S.D.
• Oryx – This Goes Back
• DJ exaNiMo – Dr. Groove
• GMS vs Sonicsurfers – Hyperspaced
• Doof – Mars Needs Woman
• Braincell – There is More on This World
• Panick – Close Range
• Cosma – Lemon Light
• Hydrophonic – Do You Believe
• Lucas & Dickster – Living Dangerously (Original Mix)
• AMD – Don’t Look In There
• Tristan & Pogo – Freakin’ Out
• Elbow Room – Strippa
• Lucas & Laughing Buddha – Binary Bonanza (Original Mix)
• Space Tribe and Electric Universe – Midsummer Nights Dream
• Soundaholix – Drug Frenzy
• Aniki – Bali Bong

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