Lance Armstrong won his 6th Tour De France. It was quite a race. I will remember it for a long time.
I forgot to Show yall M’s Birthday cake! Better late than never, I suppose.
(click on the picture to see the happy b-day song)
And another one to get a better look at the “Barney” cake. She really wanted that Barney cake…
H did some stitching today.. K did not help her in any way after showing her what to do. Sorta’ neat!
R tried on shoes for the first time today. You should have seen him walk! It was hilarious. He kept on taking giant steps as if he was walking in mud or something.
On a completely different note… The girls just watched a cartoon that had lemmings in it, and of course, they had them jumping off a cliff…
Did you know that lemming cliff jumping is a Urban legend, brought to us by the commercial mouse himself? Its true! Lemmings don’t follow other lemmings off cliffs! In a 1958 Disney nature documentary called “White Wilderness“ the film crews forced the lemmings to jump, creating the urban legend of urban legends.
Just to back it up Here is a quote from Smithsonian Institute’s Arctic Studies Center
…Lemming populations shrink and swell depending on how many plants and berries are available. One type of lemming, the Scandinavian lemming, migrates in a huge group when food becomes scarce. They will run in one direction through meadows, woods and towns. If they come to a large body of water they will swim and swim looking for land. The stories about lemmings jumping off cliffs are a myth.
[beware- Ed’s opinion ahead]
What does any of this have to do with anything? Nature documentaries and parents that legitimize their kids watching cable teevee by saying “but they watch “nature” or “the history channel”…” are a pet peeve of mine. Let them read it in a book- that has a much higher chance of conveying reality. Or better yet, get them out in the woods (Or even zoo) to get closer to the real thing.
Cable teevee is child abuse.
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