When Weird is Normal and Normal Weird

I like Weird Al Yankovik because he's from California (San Luis Obispo to be precise). I like how he makes fun of Michael Jackson so we've been watching a DVD of Weird Al singing "Just Eat It" (to parody Michael's "Just Beat It" and "Fat" to poke fun at "Bad". The kids really like Weird Al and can really relate to his accordion when he plays it. Anyhow, we'd been playing the Weird Al DVD a bit so I decided to see what the kids would do if I played them the original Michael Jackson. So I turned it on and as soon as they saw it they looked at each other with eyebrows raised and demanded that I put Weird Al back on. Michael Jackson it turns out was too weird.



Well so that was about a month ago. We haven't played the Weird Al DVD much since. So today we're in the toy store to buy Maya birthday presents for her big 2 and ... well you can judge for yourselves by watching the video. Maya's at the Piano (like Elton John) and Julian is singing. He's singing a song from the Weird Al DVD a parody to "American Pie" where Weird Al sing "He left his home and kissed his mommy good bye, saying soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" (obviously he's signing about Star Wars and the young Darth Vader. I've seen the Weird Al video as much as the kids have and I cannot remember the words unlike the little guy in this video who's got them and the melody down pat. Of course he's also got the worlds cutest piano player, which helps.

Here's another one. Julian and Kareoke of ABBA.

And just for fun, here's a monument many of you may recognize.

I Picked These Ones Just for You

You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' nose.

Just wanted to grab your attention with some new pictures.

Chew on my fist !

Last night we watched Kung-fu Panda with the kids, man what a funny movie. So tonight we're trying to get the kids to bed and I remembered how at the beginning of the movie the Panda is sitting at a restaurant eating his noodles when a bad guy approaches him and says:
"I see you like to chew ...
perhaps you'd like to CHEW ON MY FIST !"

So tonight the kids have their monkey pajamas on and I'm running after them pretending I'm the bad guy in the Panda movie (it's ok, the Panda ends up kicking the bad guy's butt after he's done chewing of course, cuz you can't fight when you're eating).

Now the kids are running around with their own versions: Julian is saying "So you LIKE TO CHEW, maybe CHEW ON THIS !" and Maya's just keeping it simple with "CHEW FIST". I know, I know, I still have to get the hang out of this parenting stuff, but you've got to hear them. There's nothing funnier than a couple of little sweeties trying to act tough.

"Stupid GPS"

I still want to document our trip to Paris, but I'm tired tonight. So I'll let you watch the movies and tell you another story.

This weekend we were taking the kids to a swimming pool outside of town and as usual we were relying on our GPS to guide us. Man I love that thing. Never get lost again. I didn't realize that I had missed a turn that the GPS had told me to take so I got frustrated when it seemed to me that it was taking us on unnecessary U-turns and complicating the trip. So I slipped and said "stupid GPS". Julian has had a fixation with the word "stupid" for some time so that was a bad move on my part. He immediately told me that "dadda, the GPS isn't stupid, don't use that word", which is basically what we tell him when we hear him say the S-word. Turned out the GPS wasn't so stupid, I just have a habbit of not following direction. So we got to the pool, the kids had a blast, etc.

This morning (three days later) Julian woke up and the first thing he told me was, "dadda the GPS isn't stupid". Man what a memory. He said it in the sweetest voice too. Lesson learned: "kids really like exciting sounding words, especially foul language, so I've gotta watch it !"

Viva La France ! Told in Movies.

This time I'll let the videos speak for themselves...

Here's some videos from our trip to Paris to visit Jeremy, Laura, Ginger and Posey.

Snow ?

A peaceful lunch. Sushi in Paris.