Cleared for launch!

Just a quick one

We are soon going to visit family but I came across this shot I grabbed while experimenting with lenses for my new camera and I just thought it was so awesome I had to share it. Loads of updates will be on the way after the Halloween weekend.

Hot Wheels update

Jack slept with his new Hot Wheels car -- it came with the shark set -- last night. He awoke at 5:30 or so when Genevieve was leaving for work and she was soothing him back to sleep. With his little eyes scrunched up he grumpily dug in his bedclothes for a bit until his hands emerged clutching his Hot Wheels car. Grasping it to his chest, he laid back on his pillow and went right back to sleep.

Jack woke this morning and came toddling into my office as usual, rubbing his eyes and clutching his car. He climbed into my lap for the traditional wake-up hugs and then sat up and told me his car had a new name, "Flamefire." And apparently its engine can pop up and has guns that shot flames and it can transform and stand up and so on and so on. "Awesome!" I said.

"Breakfast time!" I said. He held up his five fingers. "OK. I'm going to play with my Hot Wheels shark for this many minutes."

"OK, buddy." And so he did.

Hot Wheels

Jack filled up his Transformers sticker chart today!
Which means he gets a trip to the toy store to get a big toy. The chart is huge so this only comes around a couple of times a year. Jack has wanted the Hot Wheels Shark Bite Bay set forever. Every trip to the toy store there has been a stop at the Hot Wheels aisle to press its little button and hear the rude taunts of the shark whose pointy teeth await all Hot Wheels foolish enough to venture near.

Well he finally got it today and apart from a brief PB&J break he has been playing with it ever since. That was 11:30. It is past 7 now.

Jack's Hot Wheels mania is very familiar to me. As a kid in the 1960's Hot Wheels were an absolute obsession. We did not have talking sharks and some of the other crazy stuff they have today, but they still make all the classic stuff I remember well. I am looking forward to years of Hot Wheels fun with Jack.

Nothing says Deutschland . . .

. . . Like the great taste of churros!

At the Montrose Oktoberfest

Jack on the giant slide

This is just a test post from my iPhone. But so as not to disappoint, here is a picture of Jack. Went to the Toy Story/Toy Story 2 double feature tonight, along with Ryan and Uly. Super fun!