Kintropy In Action

Janette and I were taking a post-kids break, watching "Chuck."  Hannah was asleep in her room.  Gabriel was not.  He wandered into the family room.

"Shouldn't you guys be alseep?" he asked.  "Hannah is asleep.  I'm almost asleep...."

As Gabriel worked through his sleep-avoidance logic, I laughed.  Janette reminded him that we were adults.  We could stay up as long as we wanted, but would welcome the opportunity to go to sleep and enjoy eight or nine hours of bliss.

And then I encouraged him, again, to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.

-- Dad 

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Hey I have been distracted with a fun game I downloaded from www.bigfishgames.com,  It is called Wonderburg.

It combines fantasy, neighborhood improvement and project management into one game.  It has fun ideas like a house infested with pirate ghosts, headless horseman or Yeti's.  The player job is to mobiles gnomes and witches to rebuild the ruin fantasy suburbs.

It works great for those waiting for your young one to go back to sleep times.

--Mom

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I am a fantasy book reader. Unquenchable, in this genre is putting it lightly. Through our cable system we get the channel ION network. It is an interesting channel for me in that it plays some BBC stuff I don't even get to see on the American BBC network. One recent show was a film version of The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. I was excited! I love Terry Pratchett Discworld books, and I had no idea that it had been made into a video format.

OK, so the premise of these books is silly; they are set on a planet that is a flat, round disc instead of a sphere. The stories make fun of the genre, pop culture, and anything else the writer can throw in. Pratchett's writing style is similar to Douglas Adams, but he is much more prolific.

So I was watching the movie while Hannah was batting around a singing toy when Gabriel came and sat next to me. After a few minutes of questions and me rewinding to show him the weird point about the planet of Discworld, he started laughing.

“Is that a rainbow, Mom?”

“Yeah, Gabriel that is.”

“That is funny, Mom.  A rainbow couldn't curve like that on that planet.”

 I did a double take. I didn't know he understood color and light physics that much. I chuckled, too, in shock. “Your right, Gabriel.  A rainbow takes it's shape from the curve of the world.”

I guess my seven year old is absorbing some things in school after all.

--Mom

(P.S. the movie is not available for the American market.)

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Last week was Spring Break at our house. We started that Saturday with Hannah's birthday party with friends. I had hired her music teacher to sing for an hour at a conference room at the local gym. We had an amazing turn out of friends from school and the neighborhood. Hannah had fun rocking out to the live singing and guitar playing.

That night we drove to the coast and stayed in Newport at the Hallmark Hotel. Every room looks out on the ocean. I realized the kids have been kept home to much when Gabriel cheered at every change in the landscape to the coast. Sunday morning we went the the Aquarium. It was great to watch Gabriel and Hannah stare at the fish swimming around them in the tunnels. When we sat Hannah on the floor in one she tried to grab a fish swimming below her. Gabriel kept speculating on what the fish were thinking. “ Hey, have you got any food little boy?” thats what the say to me, says Gabriel.

Monday, we went to the children's museum. It was crowded. The kids had fun.

Tuesday, we had to take Hannah to a doctor appointments. That night we had their cousin with us too, so we went to Out of this World Pizza which has a 3 story play structure. The boys ran themselves ragged. Meanwhile I climbed up the structure with Hannah to take her down the big slides.

Wednesday, I went to take them to the OMSI but, the line was way to crowded so, we did a trip to their shop and headed to downtown Portland. This where we had a fancy lunch at my favorite restaurant, Jake's Grill and stopped by Finnegan's, a classical toy store.

Thursday, we went to the zoo. Some of our neighbors met us there and it was great to watch my children actually look at the animals. Gabriel usually is more interested in climbing things and operating the doors.

Friday we rested.

By Saturday we were all sick.

I think the kids had a good spring break though.

--Mom

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