Question of the day part 2

"How are angels different from those flying babies with bows and arrows?"

Question of the day

"Daddy, why do you have to open your mouth to talk, but not to chew?"

Yogi just asked "What is claustrophobic?"

"Does it mean being afraid of Santa?"

Happy Easter! New videos and pictures! Fencing and more...

Finally, new videos and pictures of son #1!

Here he is at fencing class:



Yogi said to me that in fencing you're supposed to hold the tip of your sword up so you don't accidentally hurt someone.

"It's the way of the blade," he said.

Click the link below to watch more on the family YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/sylvainfamily

And some great pictures...

Yogi loves to play with the PhotoBooth app on the computer. This is a self-portrait:


Glasses were a gift from Granny Deb:


Yogi and John are writing a book together about a boy named Bobby Blinx. Here they are working on the first draft on a Sunday afternoon:


We have endless photos so...Coming Soon: A Flickr account to make perusal easier!

New Years Eve 08

We have two family traditions for New Years. One is a New Years Day Brunch which we have been doing for 4 or 5 years and which we are really looking forward to. Then we have a new years eve ritual that we stole/invented/cobbled together last year. It goes like this:

We bath
We write down things we want to give up for the new year
We take turns smudging the house with sage as we ring a bell 108 times to dismiss the 108 human weaknesses.

This year John is giving up Selfishness, Procrastination and Lazyness and Impatience. Shelley is giving up Impatience, Reasons for not exercising and meditation, things and clutter and perfectionism.

Yogi did this for the first time this year (giving rise to some impatience in John!) and he said he wanted to give up:

Anger
Impatience
Agitation
War and Destruction
Pain (for other people and me)
Selfishness
Buying Things I don't need

Cool!!!

We've had a couple trips to the snow and Shelley and Yogi made a ginger bread house that collapsed under the snow. Vids and story coming soon..

Right Shelley?

The family that votes together

Well we all went to the polls together, Shelley, John and Yogi and we all voted.

Well Yogi didn't vote and he's a little upset about that. Trying to explain why he can't vote yet was difficult. It really doesn't make much sense that kids have no vote. Yogi will be paying for George W. Bush's policies for a long time.

After we came home I said to Yogi: "I want you to remember this day. It's an important day in American history."

He said: "Of course I remember this day. It's today!"

Thank you G-Pa - Yogi loves Lego Batman for Wii

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