4, 5, Fun for 500

This is the 500th blog post, which is a pretty good clip since Anders has less than 800 days under his belt. Anders' code for water in which he can play is 4, 5 since he fixated on the 4 and 5 ft signs at our local pool.

Someday I need Anna to write a post about what goes down at the library each Wednesday or at a SLAM (Sugar Land Area Moms) playgroup.

Anders now likes "news, sit, nuck," which means sitting on the couch and watching the news as he drinks his milk. He's a fan of the CBS Sunday Morning trumpets and the John Williams' NBC Nightly News theme. He of course likes the weather. Anders would not be my son if he did not.

Some of the senior girls in my econ class stumbled out the picture of Anders at my desk, which led to cuteness-related shrieking. It was pretty funny, but startling.

Yesterday, I dusted the stroller off and took Anders to a duck pond near our house. We brought some stale bread with which Anders and I fed the ducks. Anders figured out how to get a little distance in his bread throws, along with noticing the ducks on all sides of him. Some of these ducks could start in centerfield for the Royals with their ability to snatch bread out of the air. But the goose...not so much. Every piece of bread I threw at him hit him in the neck.

We picked up our new camera, so we will have some decent pictures to post soon of today's trip to Galveston. I like Galveston, maybe not as much as Glen Campbell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUPCfIihQ4 but I like it. Anders enjoyed having the waves crash into him. I took him out a bit deeper. He enjoyed having the waves crash into both of us. He walked with Anna along the shore, but once he realized that they could write letters in the sand it was all over for him. At one point, Anders looked out, pointed, and said "clouds, water."

But what kind of water? I'm a Carlyle-Group-Trilateral-Commission-One-World-Ocean guy. Anna, meanwhile, maintains that we were not at an ocean today, rather we we left our pink house for a vacation down by the Gulf of Mexico. I believe that geographers or oceanographers have just named different facets and corners of our one world ocean. This argument continues.

We might have to try the Kemah Boardwalk next time. If you don't know what that is, look it up in your Southwest Airlines in flight magazine next to the Landry's Steakhouse ad, which Galveston also has.