Music

While listening to Hang On Sloopy
Mimi asks, "why does Sloopy need to hang on?"
Me ** hee hee **

Movies

 Yoda asked if he could sort things.  I found the box I call the collection.  We've done this before...

Spiderman off to school...

Mimi wearing her NYC shirt (thanks, Sonya)

I got it in my head to make a pretty cake for the cake auction.  This is full of minty goodness.  I kept this one for us to eat and made a prettier cake for the auction. Turns out the person who won the auction liked the idea of it being minty and would have bought it pretty or not. (Yoda was pretty excited to put the cake on the blog, he took this picture)

 

 

While watching Pinocchio, Yoda said, "are they putting fire in their mouths?"

While watching the "We built this city on Rock & Roll" video on youtube, Yoda said, "Is that the city they built?"

Cleveland

While Aunt Sonya was here we ventured up to Cleveland just for the day to hit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (finally!)  

  Pizza first...

 This one's for you mom, there was a huge exhibit on Elvis!

And this awesome display of Bruce Springsteen.  Notebooks with pages of lyrics.  I was floored.  Sonya and I read them and discussed the various meanings behind his words. 

 Big exhibit on the Beatles

 and Jimi Hendrix.

 Lots of interactive stuff. 

Next time we won't go with the kids, so we can see more and read more. 

 

We never would have gone if Sonya wasn't here, I'm so glad she came to hang out with us! 

A little get-away

Greg has been super busy with work and stuff, when things calmed down, I was determined to get out of town!  (bonus* Greg had a free car rental, so we took advantage of that!)  The kiddos had a 1/2 day of school, so we took off on Friday afternoon and drove to Erie, PA.  Our dear friends have lived there for almost as long as we have lived here, and yet, we have not visited... seemed like a good time to go.  And while we were at it, we drove the rest of the way to Niagara Falls!  Greg and I busted out our brand-new passports and took off :) 

We just had to do lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe, it seemed too funny.  I haven't been there since the 80's and Greg in the 90's. 

Off to the falls....

We decided to park and walk across to the Canadian side. 

 On the border. 

 The only thing we did was go behind the falls.  It was pretty fun. 

 One reason we didn't take the boat is, it was COLD!  It even snowed a little while we were there!  But the other reason is, Parker started saying his stomach was hurting. 

Yoda, "I got an eye-patch"

We started walking back across the bridge, the photo above is just seconds before Parker lost his dinner all over the walkway.  Sorry Canada! 

They lit us the Falls a little early, we were so worried we would miss it.  It was so beautiful! We drove home that night.  So worth the trip! 

Mimi Sings

Today was awful.  Immense sadness and helplessness.

So, to cheer up and strengthen the bonds of love in our home, Mimi and I listened to rock and roll together.

This is her new favorite song, The Crane Wife part 3 by the Decemberists. We sing the chorus together.  Mimi suggested that the singer "hangs his head low" to duck the boughs mentioned in the beginning of the song.



One of Mimi's past favorites is Knights of Cydonia by Muse, an SF prog rock anthem.  We shot a video of her singing and dancing to all 6 and half minutes of this song in the van.  Around 4:45 mark in the song is when she and Parker really started to headbang.



Another favorite was Fidelity by Regina Spektor.  She liked the "shake it up" in the beginning.


For older posts featuring Mimi's penchant for rock and roll and dancing see here, here and here.