Wednesday, March 25, 2009

lani mcdonald



so there we were waiting in line to renew the registration on our car in nov 2007. there was a very friendly old man in front of me observing L, commenting and comparing her to his grandkids. i would turn to look at G every now and then he had this look on his face that i've never seen before, but i still kept up our conversation until it was the old man's turn at the registry. while waiting for his service he talked to L and her reponse was to hold her breath until her face turned red as she pushed out a very stinky poop. G rescues me from the stink bomb and on his return he told me that old man was lani mcdonald! who??? his childhood hero! who??? on the old calgary flames team! ok, got it. so i ask him if i could shake the hand of my husband's childhood hero and as he does so he looks over to G, who is stunned at this point and bashfully shakes his hand too. we leave only to return armed with my camera phone to take some paparazzi shots. this should be a lesson to G to comb your hair every morning!

i heart star wars nerds

everyday i have to endure pop quizzes given by M to test my knowledge of star wars. he's discovered the limit on mom's knowledge about all things in his ever growing world, and is not surprised anymore when i fail the quizzes miserably. one day G comes home from work and M exclaimed to him that they are both star wars nerds! G's ego was a bit bruised but M was still proud and that pride has grown to be shared by them both. proud star wars nerds.

Uncle Steven, our plumber

So it was by coincidence that I found out an old friend from highschool is living in Calgary, and that he's a plumber. He came one time to save our ceiling from our toilet and L satstaring in awe as he made little work of what would have taken us two weeks to complete. She had to have her hair combed and changed hairpins several times before she felt able to present herself to uncle steven. L's first crush? or early plumbing aspirations?