He really liked it, and mostly inhaled the better part of three ears.

He said that he was full while half way through his third ear, so I went to finish it for him. Soon, he came up and asked for a bite. Then another, and another, and I finally just gave it back to him.

(And yes, he's wearing the same clothes as yesterday -- my bad. At least they're on properly.)

(Note to photographers: the sub-command dial on the front of the Nikon D200 becomes a challenge to turn with buttery fingers.)

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As one would expect of a four-year-old boy, Anthony has a keen interest in rockets. If it wasn't clear enough the other day when he explained to me in detail how the space shuttle launched (see the middle of this post), it was clear today when we shot off a model rocket.

I was into model rocketry when I was a kid, so I thought to share that experience a bit with him. Yesterday we bought an Estes starter kit and built one of the rockets, and today we went to a park to shoot it off. (I used to [...]

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Two days ago I posted a review of a new GPS unit, and yesterday I posted some photos of a soaking wet bird that I took during a storm. Little did I know at the time, but those posts were destined to become related.

It seems that the large tree shown at the left in this picture on the GPS-related post was blown down by the storm of the wet-bird post:

The tree was an old, crotchety mulberry tree that had seen better days. When I was a kid, it was glorious, both fun to climb and producing a lot [...]

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Anthony is always saying things that are surprising or interesting (to us, at least) for one reason or another, and today he had a couple of gems.

We were doing our God Blesses before bed, and he said that he wanted to do a special God Bless for Mommy in Japan. Our normal pattern is that I say something that he then repeats, so the conversation went like this:

Me: A super God bless for Mommy in Japan... Anthony:I don't want to do the one that you say, because I love Mommy more a super lot. Me: Oh, okay, well, [...]
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I posted the other day about the wet and scruffy birds that I fed on a stormy day earlier this week. I'd not gotten any pictures until after the storm, when they'd started to dry off, so they didn't look as wet and messy in the pictures as they had during the storm.

Well, yesterday was another storm and another day of working with the laptop on the veranda, but this time I brought out the camera during the storm, and although it was quite dark and gloomy (it was a thunderstorm, after all), I got some scruffy-wet bird pictures.

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