Hayden upon hearing the word “stupid”: Awww! He said the s-word. Actually, did you know there are two s-words?

Me, cringing: Really? What’s the other one?

Hayden: I can’t say it because it’s an s-word but it rhymes with “hut up”

Me: Oh! Oh, thank god.

I’m not normally a big fan of nerdcore, but this should be a requirement for any NES fans of old.

(Via The Daily What)

From someone who’s made a number of mixed tapes, this is too cute to not share:

[From Laughing Squid]

In case you ever find yourself wondering what I’m talking about, this is generally it:

Now I can bring a woman back to my place and brag about how I hunt the plush children of the ancient gods who slumber in the deep places waiting to devour us.

Oh, Let me show you the slippers I made out of him too

Thanks for 8 years of making me feel like this:

There’s no way we’re parents of a kindergartner. That can’t be right.
I know we just went took a 2 hour tour of the kindergarten. I know we met our new teacher (who is awesome), but there’s no way that this giant blond kid who writes his own name and led us around the school is ours.

I don’t know who this boy is, but I”m proud of him.

Hayden has devised a new rating system for how he feels about us as parents; by awarding us “awesomes”. I’m still trying to work out the exact mechanism but it seems that at any time we can have somewhere between zero and two awesomes. The happier he is with us the more awesomes we are awarded.

Currently I stand at one awesome with no modifiers. The modifiers seem to come into play when he’s recently become favorable but may still be mad from something earlier. For example last weekend I had one awesome and one thumbs down.

We’ve been a bit negligent with posting here of late, so I understand if I’ve earned a thumbs down or two, hopefully some pictures of what we’ve missed will earn an awesome.

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Gabriel is in the middle of an explosion of communication. He’s picking up on words, learning many of their meanings, and parroting almost everything. He understands everything we tell him, though when he’s being difficult he pretends not to.

Today was Gabe’s first joke.

Hayden is a big fan of knock knock jokes, though his form still requires some refinement. Generally his punchline consists of a series of nonsensical words, something about a bathroom and him literally punching himself in the face.

After several of Hayden’s knock knock jokes Gabe decided to chime in:

Gabe: Knock knock!
Me: Who’s there?
Gabe: Moo!

/scene

(google interrupting cow if you don’t think this is funny)

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I want to make sure everyone sees this achingly beautiful short film.

Also, I’m completely in love with this song. It’s personal, bluesy and snarky. I need more of this