Just Black Cherry

We have long enjoyed a love affair with this juice:

INGREDIENTS: JUICE FROM RIPE, WHOLE, BLACK CHERRIES.

It is powerful stuff, and oh, so tasty.

R1 likes to drink it straight, perhaps with a little ice.

I like mine diluted with 7up, making a sparkling black cherry. Or with 7up and limeade, because sparkling cherry limeade is the absolute best drink. Ever.

Yesterday we made thick black cherry milkshakes. It made me think of that place where we used to stop for shakes on the way to Park City from Provo... can't think of the name...

This may be found at Wegman's, if you are so fortunate as to live near one.

Penelope

I am really out of the loop, movie-wise. I'm not really sure what movies are in the theaters right now. And I had never heard of the movie Penelope.


Then I stumbled across it while adding other movies to my Netflix queue. (By the way, thank goodness for Netflix, and down with Blockbuster).

We watched it last week, and it was cute and clean. You should take a look.

Picture this

W1: Sitting on the couch, gripping a tupperware container to his chin, watching Monsters, Inc., and every once in a while, moaning.

K1: In the basement, loading vomit-soaked clothes and blankets into the washer.

L1: Roaming free and wreaking havoc. He is the master at quietly getting into things that he shouldn't.

You probably shouldn't come over.


(and, while this is not fun and pretty gross, I might get a few things done around here that I have been meaning to do for weeks. L1 will nap, W1 will continue sitting and moaning, and I might sew! or bake! or read! or spring clean!)

The Thoo

We recently purchased a season pass to the Seneca Park Zoo. In fair weather, it is a great place to spend the morning.


Currently, W1 asks to go there almost every day.

Yesterday, as I was buckling him into his carseat to go pick R1 up at work, he said, "Go to the thoo? Yeah! This way!", and pointed down the street.

If I had just driven the way he was directing me, in all likelihood we would have ended up at the zoo.

'stache

We have had our first child-involved medical (sort-of) emergency. And frankly, I am surprised we have made it this long. L1, who trips and falls multiple times a day, happened this time to be clutching a toy to his mouth, which split open the area between his nose and upper lip. Anyone know what that area is called?


The cut was a little jagged (think Harry Potter) and wide, so we took him to the pediatrician, who glued it shut. We only needed three people to hold him still for the glueing, which was the part he hated the most. I was glad to avoid stitches because that area is really hard to keep clean. It was all pretty smooth, and L1 doesn't seem fazed by it at all.


And how did W1 handle it? Aside from a new affinity for Band-Aids, he has armed himself to protect against similar injury.

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Position chair in front of TV.
Start Wall-E DVD.
Proceed.


We did this at least two weeks ago, but just today I was looking at the pictures and had to post these two.

Not on my list of places to visit.

I was reading an article today about Meadowlands Xanadu, a huge, sprawling, ugly monstrosity of a mall being built in New Jersey. It's right across the Hudson from New York City, and will be opening in August.


That part of the building sticking out the back? An indoor ski slope.

All ugliness aside, it is going to include something called Wannado City, which sounds like a lot of fun. It's for kids 2 - 15, and they pretend to have jobs, earn money, bank their earnings, etc. I bet firefighter is the most popular career. A good way to spend a snowy day.

Just don't look at the admission price.

(And isn't that a strange name? Wikipedia told me that Xanadu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China. Yeah, I really don't see the connection, either.)