Got this monster in the market: 15cm long, 34 cm around it’s widest girth and 40 cm around top-bottom. Yum. Amber got me these. On the packaging it says “for ages 3 and up.” This is ridiculous. Blaise loves playing with them and he’s not even two yet! Who makes these executive decisions? This is … [Read more…]
Good job Salomé. Those who are curious can see the answer here.
I just woke up to Blaise barking at stray dogs and Acadia sneezing repeatedly next to me in bed. Let me offer you some highlights of yesterday though. I picked up 4 classes worth of cards for sponsors from one of our schools. The students are writing their favorite Bible verse and either drawing a … [Read more…]
You can’t have a moustache for just a day. Apparently. Moustache Men seem to be required to wear a moustache for years in order to be accepted. I remember seeing a band of misfits at a music festival in Stony Plain, all 20-somethings, all with moustaches. It really seemed out of place. My papa had … [Read more…]
From March to May, we enjoy mangoes. As many as we can eat. They usually cost between 15-23¢ each. The eat them green here too, which isn’t bad with some salt and seasoning. We whip them up with milk. We cook them up in crisps. We stir them into pudding. We dice them into waldorf … [Read more…]
The sheer size of Acadia overwhelms me. And she’s strong too! All 8 lbs of her. This picture reminds me of those tiny monkeys that clutch to a pinky finger that makes into nearly every edition of those hologram Guiness Book of World Records.
Two things this morning blew me away. First, at breakfast, Blaise was saying thank you to Mamá for something she put in his dish, but he began saying it in a deeper and deeper voice, over and over. Amber would respond “You’re welcome” in just as deep a voice. Blaise continued to push his chin … [Read more…]
Perhaps more for my own sake in remembering these fun (yet nearly valueless) coins, I’m recording them here. And for those who like to learn trivial facts about other countries… I present to you the coins in circulation in the Republic of Guatemala: TAILS. All of the coins feature basically the same thing on the … [Read more…]
For those faithful readers, I thought I would go back a few posts and provide an up-to-date report on some recent events (rather than post comments on 2-month-old posts): Frutas Extranjeras: Found out that the jocote is also known as the spondias mombin, the gully plum, the Spanish plum, the hog plum, the Ashanti plum, … [Read more…]
This is what Blaise said when I had the video camera out during Acadia’s first bath. Jealous or Concerned? He also commented “Big cheese!” * Cheese /tʃi:z/ n (a) camera, video camera (b) a food papa gives me when he’s cooking vt (a) to take pictures, to shoot video (b) to be photographed