EarthFest

Saturday we went into Boston for an outdoor concert. Superman liked the magician and story teller. Above is Superman pretending to be a wolf. Mimi spent most of the day in the shaded back pack and if I had a nickel for every comment we got for that thing... well let's just say I would be typing this from Bermuda. If you look close, you can see the top of Boba Fet in Superman's pocket.

Here's Mimi in the back pack, on the train, moments after the first and best comment of the day, "Now that's a contraption!" Notice her Metro newspaper and her "Charlie Card" (pronounced "Chahlie Cahd"). That's the transit pass for the train here, and the paper that most people read while on the train, she insisted on holding them. Maybe since she was born here she's more comfortable in Boston then the rest of us.


We also visited the Museum of Fine Art and looked at the Egyptian and Roman stuff. Superman was very concerned that most of the artifacts were cracked or broken. Somehow it calmed him when he was told that all of it was really old.

Breakfast in Bed

For my birthday I told Greg that I wanted breakfast in bed. He's so good, he went out and got me delicious pastries that we all shared. Mimi really liked putting her fingers in the cheese of my favorite cheese danish. When I asked her to "stop poking my cheese", Superman didn't stop laughing the rest of the morning. He still brings it up and then cracks up. If you look closely you can see her fingerprints in what's left of the cheese.

We also went to a really pretty lake close by. Mimi was ready to jump in the water until she stumbled and felt the sand on her hands, then she made this face.

Also this month, Superman was so proud to make it to the top of our neighbors tire swing and Mimi learned the sign for flower when she was sniffing the same neighbors newly potted plants.

Exam Haiku

Although Greg did not take an exam this May, he did proctor one, here's what he did to pass the time:

My calculator
Guides me thought the exam and
Is my only friend

I leave the buttons
Mashed up and down to find the
Lettered answer choice

My earplugs have not
Nor will they be approved by
The supervisor

The overhead lights
Flickering fluorescently
Casting quick shadows

At last I take this
Exam but before I am finished
I must return it

Forgotten pencil
Prohibits me from pure joy
Oh borrowed pencil

Lost, 24 and
American Idol were
Exam casualties

The first weekend since
February that I won’t
Spend with my I.T.

The real question is
How did I study so much
And know so little

More anxiety
Now I learn that caffeine is
A diuretic

Upon my final
Review the answer sheet looks
Like a Christmas tree

If I fail this test
Again my life will continue in
A holding pattern

Black-Scholes stained my soul
Dirty measure theory tricks
I cannot forgive

When my life starts up
Again in two and half
Hours the sun will shine

My red swivel chair
Tweaks my spine representing
My site of failure

My neighbors coughing
His pencil chewing his lack
Of grooming sicken

The silence in here
Is not that quiet given
The street construction

Which of the first five
Letters will I choose for this
Impossible crap

Yoga for Children

This week at Superman's preschool he learned some yoga poses. He said "yoga helps me to cool down." Here Superman shows the Tree pose and the Downward Dog.
























Also, Mimi had fun crawling into Superman's new suitcase. I guess this is her kind of yoga.