One of the things we were warned about early on here in West Texas was how the winds will go weeks without stopping. I will say that, to date, we haven't run into that, however they are fairly constant and today we're having one of those gusty, windy days we've become used to. Thing is, the winds here blow around plenty of fine dust and dirt that ends up in your teeth, hair and pretty much everything. This is the reason people here get so bothered by the wind all the time. At least in many other places, where grass exists, the winds don't blow around all the extra dust. One good thing, though, is that the winter storm system that has been so busy this week dropping blizzards and tornadoes, depending on your location, isn't coming quite this far south. The snow and freezing rain stayed about 2 hours north, as expected, and then 4 hours north Amarillo got hit pretty good today. Good for them. They can have it. :)
Took these pics today of Zac with his music table. We purchased this for him for his birthday after seeing how much he loved something very similar at Christmas Nell had bought for Ryan and Mandy to enjoy. He loves this thing and plays with it every day for quite a bit of time.
Also, look for more videos today over on the right. I uploaded 4 new ones just showing Zac playing around today.
That means Zac, not me. I'm very picky. Zac...not so much. Generally, his rule of thumb appears to be, "if I can grab it, I can eat it." I must say that as a parent, this is really not a "talent" I appreciate of his.
Today, he decided to try to eat a bug. Yes, a bug. About 3/8" long, black, lots of legs. A few of these have shown up over the past few weeks and usually the cats see them first and that alerts us to its presence. Not today. Today, Zac found it, put it in his mouth, then came crawling over to me drooling more than usual. As we'd already pulled wood and cardboard out of his mouth so far this morning, it wasn't a surprise that I'd have more to search for.
What was a surprise was that it was an alive, kicking and, if I could hear it, I'm sure screaming, black bug. Ugggh. I can watch Andrew Zimmern eat this sort of stuff on the Travel Channel without issue, but I have no desire to see my son do the same.
Thought I'd toss up a few new videos today, which should show for you over on the right before too long and, as usual, you can click the link further down on the right to see all videos if they aren't showing. This is one we took today when Zac was dancing a little bit while at his music table. I can't capture him doing stuff like this very often because once he sees the phone or camera come out, he immediately races to come touch it.
Fortunately for all of you, the Internet has not yet been able to capture "smell-o-vision". If it were, you too would be able to enjoy the new aroma that emanated from Zac after his nap this afternoon. I've named the smell in the title of this blog entry but words really cannot describe it. To my knowledge, Zac's cousin Ryan is the only other child on the planet able to create such "joy". Meanwhile, enjoy the video. :)
I used to have a MySpace account, back before Katy and I became an item. I decided I no longer needed it once we were dating, however, because for me, at my, ahem, advanced age, it only made sense as an introductory spot for people I might date.
Here's the well-known thing about MySpace, though, and joked about often. The pictures people post of themselves are always these introspective, looking off into the distance, "who in the world took that picture?" type of thing. Or, they might be things like this one of Zac, where the pic isn't centered on him. Does Zac have a MySpace account? No, that would be silly. He won't need to worry about dating for at least another year or two...
Fitting my lifelong goal of equating as many situations to movies, music or television as possible, I give you today Zac's Flock of Seagulls moment. Took this pic last Saturday and, though it's not completely obvious, his hair was suspiciously similar to that which we equate to the musical group whenever see this style.
Now, this hairstyle was also made popular in flashback segments of Friends where we saw Chandler and Ross in their collegiate days. Flock of Seagulls is kind of the quintessential 80s band, the one everyone recognizes and expects to hear on an 80s segment of music on any radio station. The primary song, "And I Ran" can be seen and heard here if you like. If you'd like to see the video that is responsible for the Flock of Seagulls "look", check it out below. Enjoy!
One of the things we were warned about early on here in West Texas was how the winds will go weeks without stopping. I will say that, to date, we haven't run into that, however they are fairly constant and today we're having one of those gusty, windy days we've become used to. Thing is, the winds here blow around plenty of fine dust and dirt that ends up in your teeth, hair and pretty much everything. This is the reason people here get so bothered by the wind all the time. At least in many other places, where grass exists, the winds don't blow around all the extra dust. One good thing, though, is that the winter storm system that has been so busy this week dropping blizzards and tornadoes, depending on your location, isn't coming quite this far south. The snow and freezing rain stayed about 2 hours north, as expected, and then 4 hours north Amarillo got hit pretty good today. Good for them. They can have it. :)
Took these pics today of Zac with his music table. We purchased this for him for his birthday after seeing how much he loved something very similar at Christmas Nell had bought for Ryan and Mandy to enjoy. He loves this thing and plays with it every day for quite a bit of time.
