I really need to get out my Canon and tripod for these outdoor photos… I’m not digging the low-resolution grainy effects of my point-and-shoot. Actually, what I need is to find someone good to take pictures for me… Bobo moves too fast for tripods!

Is my child spoiled? Well… maybe just a little. Here he is getting a nice manicure, while reclining on pillows on the sofa… and simultaneously watching a thrilling episode of his favorite show. Just a teeny bit spoiled. He just loves being pampered! Telling his manicurist when it’s time to do the other hand. Can you blame us? Look at that face, you’d want to pamper him too! 🙂

This afternoon I came home to discover we had a special visitor at our house! (Yes, I’m aware that Bobo’s sweater is not buttoned correctly… I was so excited for him to see the visitor that I rushed him outside.) A kitty cat came to see us! I was really excited because Bobo loves animals, and we don’t really know people with friendly cats for him to play with. This one was super friendly and sweet, and she had a pretty pink collar on so she must belong to one of the neighbors. We’ve never seen her before… though oddly…

Perhaps I’m totally biased… but I just think this is the most gorgeous kid in the universe. I love him to itsy bitsy bits… he’s just so cute and huggable. And doesn’t the funniest things, like randomly hang out by the kitchen sink posing like he’s in GQ. And then he runs back into the living room to watch Thomas just as soon as I get the flash working … figures! I still think he’s adorable and gorgeous when he’s staring vacantly. Male models do that a lot, so it’s good he’s got that part down too. 🙂

This is one of the many reasons Bobo loves to have Grampy babysit… gallon-sized cups of Coke! Not to mention the bag of Dunkin’ Donut holes (‘dunks’ as Bobo calls them) they went out to get earlier! Bobo loves the van (before he was scared to even go in it) and wanted to go for a few rides, so Grampy took him out to Burger King for their second trip. I guess Grampy thought he was getting this buffalo-sized soda for himself… wrong! Bobo grabbed it as soon as they got home. 🙂 Don’t worry… he didn’t have TOO much.

I added some new interesting history and science ‘twitter-ers’ to my list, and I’m very delighted already by how much interesting stuff has turned up. Historians are so smart! Just putting that out there. Historytweeter posted a blog entry about this incredible video, and I just had to repost it. It shows Hellen Keller’s teacher explaining the system she used to help her pupil understand spoken language and speak herself. Just brilliant.

My mom decided to watch some America’s Funniest Home videos just now, and they had a section on ‘redneck women’ in which said females fell over, fell off stuff, or did some other clumsy embarrassing thing. It was horrifying, but we were laughing, so Bobo started laughing too. Then, once it went to commercial, Bobo decided HE would provide the entertainment. He’s spent the past 15 minutes giving me heart attacks by running full speed across the room to dive head first into anything and everything, and every single time he thinks he’s hilarious. Maybe I should take a video…

Tonight Bobo got his first ‘real’ carnival experience. Last year he went to one for a grand total of five minutes, and has ever since been totally enamored with the concept of the Crazy Bus. He talked about it for months afterward (‘bus!’ ‘Juju!’ ‘bus!’ was actually the extent of the conversation, but I got the point). Tonight he was reunited with his beloved Crazy Bus… and wouldn’t even think about going on it! He did agree to go on the train, which was his first… and last ride. It was wristband night, and thank goodness we didn’t spend the…