The It Song

While visiting Wuggie's cousins in Baltimore, we were introduced to the Gummi Bear song, that the cousins found (I believe) while surfing You Tube for "I Like to Move it Move it" This is the new IT song. We heard it perhaps 30 times in a 2 hour period. Enjoy.

Decorations

We are right now in Baltimore visiting Wuggie Norple's Cousins. They live 2 blocks from the most famous block of holiday decorations in the whole city. Apparently the kids ask every night to walk down to see the decorations, to see the ice skaters, to see Mickey. It is very crowded, and vendors have set up at each end of the block selling things that blink or glow, and warm-ish light-viewing food.






And though all of that was amazing, and provided many things for toddlers to stare at in wonder, it is good to be back inside building towers to knock down, and sofa-tents to hide in.

Best Tree Ever

Sunday after church I went to my friend's tree farm to get our tree. It had snowed hard a couple of days before, and the roads up there hadn't been completely cleared, so I did have a very slow slide into a snowbank that left me front bumper-less, but once I did manage to get the car back on the road, and loaded the bumper into our back seat, it was not hard to regain the spirit of a snow covered hill filled with the evergreens of a story book. My friend, her husband and I tromped through he virgin snow up the hill with a chainsaw in search of the best tree ever. We liked this guy, though he was hard to see as he was completely covered in snow. We found out once he was dry and home in our living room, for example, that he was WAY taller than he looked at the farm- it seems the bottom foot or so had been completely covered in snow. We also found that the needles are VERY spiky (we had been wearing gloves when we picked it out and cut it down.) Wuggie's Dad set it up and asked if I wanted to trim any of the stray poky branches at the top. We decided to leave them because you can see the buds folded in on themselves at the end of each one. We like Tree just the way he is. I ended up putting on gardening gloves when we put on the ornaments to reduce the spikiness. Wuggie likes both of our 2 tree toppers and the one we borrowed from K-nob, so we used them all. He says it's the best tree ever.

Snow Ball

Last winter Gramma got Wuggie a snowball maker, and now he can make the perfect-est snowballs ever.

Green Hornet

The other night while we were watching a Batman movie Wuggie Norple said "The more I know about heroes, the more I like them." So the last time I was at the library I got a set of the Green Hornet radio broadcasts. Yesterday on the way to church (our 50 minute commute) I put them on.

Here's the plot summary of episode one:
The city council passes an appropriation bill
The bad guy (Oily Slick) sells options on a property not really under consideration by the Council.
The newspaper editor (the daylight alter ego of the Green Hornet), learning of the scam, calls the city council and recommends they consider the property in question.
The Con man, realizing he cannot honor all the options he has sold, returns the money.
Now the action starts. The Green Hornet changes into his costume, visits the members of the sub-committee convened to purchase land using the new appropriations and strongly encourages them to buy the property in question. They, hating the Green Hornet, vote against it.

Wow! All the heart stopping action of appropriations, real estate options, and committee politics.

Wuggie says quietly from the back seat "There's not really a lot of action..."

I guess the definition of "Action" has changed a lot since 1936.