Water is for drinking and for fishies

While visiting my boys, my parents played a cruel trick on me. First they put on weird clothes, then they put weird clothes on me. Next we went to this building with a giant bathtub in it. Then they carried me into this giant bathtub which was full of cold water.



It was a low moment in our brief time together. I was not impressed.

It was mucho uncool.

Noah and Aiden and Eli, Oh My

I am starting to put together my posse for world domination. This weekend I met with my Canadian homeys - the brothers Devries.



We worked on all sorts of mission-critical tasks - playing with blocks, swimming (yuck), climbing over each other, etc. The most important task was to come up with a secret code and passwords. This task is more challenging than you might think. Good passwords are hard to keep track of. For example, here is some video of me saying this past weekend's top secret password (I can tell it to you since it is no longer valid):

http://picasaweb.google.com/MatthewStrada/Export/photo#5070157580168969058

How do you transcribe that?

Cool, plastic toys stuck in the wall

Az anyam and az apam are soooooooooo kind and thoughtful. They have all sorts of cool toys and games for me. The latest toy they have for me is these cool plastic things they stuck in the wall all over the house.




http://picasaweb.google.com/MatthewStrada/Export/photo#5069948552700607314

I take the plastic things out of the wall and they put them back in as quickly as possible. It's a FANtastic game.

How to get away with anything

I found out the key to never getting into trouble. You have to have a certain, special skill set (a toolkit, if you will, per se) to be successful at it. You have to be insanely cute, like yours truly.

If you are doing something you shouldn't, like hypothetically/ theoretically/ possibly going into a drawer or cupboard you shouldn't be going in, when you get caught just look really cute by doing something adorable....like maybe, possibly sticking out your tongue and making cute gurgling noises.

http://picasaweb.google.com/MatthewStrada/Export/photo#5068474124787628834

It's working for Mumia Abu-Jamal. He is adorable.

Perfection

William Safire said, "Only in grammar can you be more than perfect." He also said, "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." But that is neither here nor there. Back to my original point - can a day be more than perfect? I thought this question would have no real answer, kinda like - is reality confined to what is in principle perceptible to the senses. Or - Where would we be without rhetorical questions? Then I thought about what my more than perfect day would be like...

Start the day by wearing nothing more than a diaper and socks...



Add in some drawers and cupboards to explore...


Throw in some good reading material....

And I'd have to say, that is a perfect day. More than perfec? If I could do this all while on a walk....that would be more than perfect.

Thank you, William Montgomery, wherever you are...

When I was in Cleveland, my boy Liam taught me some most wicked cool skills - stair climbing. Not the hamster wheel kind, but the actual up and down floors kind.

I picked up on the going up thing right away, but that was at Nagymama and Nagypapa's. They have carpeted stairs. Baby clothes and hardware stairs make for a slick climbing combination. I finally figure that out though:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7537124865795391212&hl=en

There is an upside to baby clothes and hardwood stairs - going down is not just easy, but fun:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=228075770177524592&hl=en