Osler's Razor

Osler, You look positively disgusted with that snow. as I would be, if I lived in Texas, the land where everyone has a pool, and it snowed the day before Easter.

Yesterday here it was 85 degrees outside Spencer spent half the day on his brand new Spiderman Slip N Slide and all the kids came over, his little friends Austin, Tyler, Donut, Josh, Jake, Danish, Travis, Jason, profiterole, popover, biscuit and even Hot Cross Bun.

They all got pretty soggy.

Then today, we got up early and made him look presentable, and headed over to 'Memorial Park" in Wilsonville for the big heavily advertised Easter Egg Hunt at 10:00 AM. I was talking to some moms at Toney Baloney's one day and they were saying that the Wilsonville Easter Egg Hunt is great because they stagger it by age groups so that the younger kids do not get all trampled. We at first went to the wrong "Memorial Park" and got there 20 min late. By that time ALL the eggs were gone and there were none left and some moms coming out empty handed said that it was all over in like three minutes and on the big kids got eggs. HOW SAD is THAT?? Besides that, this sunny 80 degree Easter weekend this morning turned into a massive rainstorm that I swear almost turned into hail or a tornado. SO at least all of the mean kids that hogged all of the eggs got soaked…

IT was suppsed to be realllly nice until Monday yet it all went bad today. THEN we went to our second stop, which was Cutsworth's Thriftway grocery store to get a picture with the Easter Bunny. WE did get a picture but at first Spencer was totally FREAKED by the bunny who actually did look a little like the Easter Bunny from like a Wes Craven movie. WE finally convinced him to sit there and we got a decent picture, except that I took the picture which I am terrible at and I had the camera on LANDSCAPE and so it is all blurry. B ill tried his best to fix it in PhotoShop but you cannot fix BLUR.
Then we went to two garage sales, and got pretty much nothing, and then we came home, ate Mac and Cheese and then we all took naps. Then Spencer and Austin played together with their Jeeps, and Spencer accidentally ran over Austin (just a flesh wound, and Austin's mom is a nurse) after they had both decided to break at least half of the 52 pieces of Spencer's brand new sidewalk chalk. Then we had Sloppy Joe's for dinner.

So Uhmmm the weather here was crappy too.
 

Tyd--

Spencer has a Jeep? That's very Texas.
 

tyd's posts are kinda like a blog within a blog.
 

I feel sorry for that unsuspecting victim standing behind the camera, who undoubtedly got pegged by a well-crafted Osler snowball following the taking of this photograph. Either that or Osler's aim is terrible and he accidentally threw it through his own house window.
 

Sorry my posts are soooo long.

Spencer has a jeep - a little Jeep. It is one of the things I said I would never do as a parent, before I actually was a parent.

I said that I would never , EVER buy my kid one of those electric Jeeps. My child would never watch ANY TV and he would never wear light up shoes. Also we would never have a van with one of those DVD players in the back seat.

Well, Spencer has a Jeep, he wears light up shoes, he watches ONLY Pbs KIDS or "Sprout" and not even all the shows on there. He is not allowed to watch "Jakers the Adventures of Piggly WInks." He is also not allowed to watch "James the Cat." There is only ONE he watches on NOGGIN: "Jack's Big Music Show."

His favorite show is ZOOBOOMAFOO, which is all about animals. I hate it because they spare no details - they talk about poop a lot and do just gross stuff, but then it is NATURE....

He only watches CERTAIN movies in the back of the van, like "Elmo's pets" and this sing along Sesame street one, and a couple of others. I do not even approve of half the Disney movies out there. I mean in the Little Mermaid? The Evil queen gets like impaled by the hull of a ship!!!! And a lot of times the people in those movies call each other names and stuff. I do not like this.


BUT there is ONE THING that I WILL NEVER EVER do as a parent and that is I will NEVER let him ever play any of those horrible video games... They are violent and awful - a lot of them are just horrific.

A lot of people say that he is going to be exposed to them anyway and that I cannot shelter him from them. I guess so, but let him kill cops on someone else's watch.

I never really got into trouble as a kid because I was soooo busy. Especially at boarding school, they keep you running from Dawn until dusk.... After school sports, room inspections, play practice, dorm meetings, 9 PM work duty, mandatory study hall, meetings, clubs, tons and tons of homework, You don't even have time to call your parents , never mind take up smoking or whatever. I spent all my free time with the extra help math guy anyway. I could not do trigonometry to save my life.

Hopefully I can keep SPencer just busy busy busy and he will not even have time to wonder about stupid video games.
 

Osler you look like the Unibomber in that picture.
 

I'm more like the snowbomber, Tyd. Hee hee hee. And some neighbor kid got it, and good, right after this picture was taken.
 

In San Antonio, many people camp out in Breckenridge Park and barbeque for Easter. The competition for spots is so fierce that people start claiming spots a week ahead of time. This year is the first year in a very long time the weather has turned against them. No snow yet, though, and people were wearing shorts in December.
 

Good thing you are used to being in the middle of tornados, being pushed by the force of nature while in your car, meanwhile fighting off Godzilla and making homemade bread all at the same time. This easter mix has nothing on you.
 

Tyd-

Thomas is right, you should start a blog.
 

Yeah I need to stop hijacking Osler's blog. But I do not have enough of a life to get my own blog. WHat would I Call it? Spence-O-Rama?

I like Osler's blog too much to leave it. I just have to make my posts a LITTLE shorter.
 

No! Don't start your own blog! Tyd, we need you too much on this one.
 

I will never, ever leave you, Mayor McCheese.
 

Squeeky-- That was easy, because radioactive monsters are terrified of homemade bread; I was basically able to kill two birds with one stone.

Baking bread while driving, however, is now illegal in Michigan.
 

Tyd, don't start your own either. That would be like Rhoda leaving Mary Tyler Moore... and we all know how well that worked out!
 

Osler as Mary Tyler Moore. Now that's an image that is almost as disturbing as a hooded Mark holding a snowball on Eastereve.
 

Ok, Prof! You really were missing snow in Nov. and Dec. And now you have the most snow Texas has seen in 25 years... on Easter! I hope you took advantage and built a few snowmen... and made some snow angels!

"I'm dreaming of a ... white.... Easter! Just like the ones I used to know...!"

"We wish you a Merry Easter... and a Happy Cinco de Mayo!"
 

OK, maybe a better comparison would be Osler as "The Fonz" and Tyd as Laverne. or Shirley. But they did pretty well on their own. Maybe Osler portraying the Fonz and Tyd portraying Joanie, as in Joanie Love Chachi
 

I get to be the Fonz?! Ayyyyyy!
 

I like the Rhoda one better. But I would be more like the PHYLLIS leaving than Rhoda.

Heres a good question ON the Mary Tyler Moore show, Which one are you???

I am a cross between Ted Baxter and Sue Anne Nivens
 

Well, If Prof Osler is Mary, I'm confused, because really, he should be Lou Grant.
 

Osler probably IS Lou Grant I think you, IPLAW, are Murray Slaughter. I am the love child between Sue Anne Nivens and Ted Baxter.
 

I'm not Lou Grant! I'm Bob Newhart.
 

Yikes, well I certainly am NOT Murray. I'm more like that ex boyfriend of Mary's who keeps popping up. But unlike him, I wouldn't have let her get away.

You know there just weren't too many great role models on the old sitcoms, were there?

I always admired Danny Partridge, however.
 

What about Chris Partridge? Remember how they switched kids one day and no one in the family seemed to notice?