Bubbers and the laundry
Heidi July 2nd, 2008
So, one lazy afternoon a while back, I was sitting in the family room folding laundry while the Bubbers king littered the kitchen with toys, recycled our new tetherball and wrestled his pillow without mercy.
And I watched it all with a mother’s adoring eye when all of a sudden he turned around, locked eyes with the laundry basket I was using and immediately toddled over to it.
With a little grunt, he reached out with both hands and started pushing it across the room.
“Wait, wait!” I laughed and lunged forward, grabbing hold of my basket of folded treasures.
“I need this basket, Little Man, but you can have this one,” I explained kindly and redirected his attention to an empty basket nearby.
With another grunt, he changed course and seized the empty basket I offered.
After pushing it across the room, he suddenly bent down, flipped it right side up and spent the next 15 minutes doing this…..
My favorite things about this video:
- The twinkle in his eye
- The great Bubbers gusto in his movements
- The little grunts he makes (that you can’t hear because I muted it–sorry!)
- The recycled tetherball in the background
- His inability to resist the green bead
–
p.s. Sorry I’ve already used this song in a previous movie, but I couldn’t resist because it fit so perfectly….. Please overlook the repeat. Thank you! :)
A close race
Heidi July 2nd, 2008
Wow, thank you for all your comments and votes everyone!
It’s fascinating to hear your differing viewpoints and see the race go neck and neck…..
Charming would personally like to paint the whole shed with whatever color we found, so he’s rooting for all those votes.
(And he’s accused me of voting at least three times for the neutral brown–which I’ve repeatedly explained isn’t true at all. Because I haven’t even voted once. But he still says I did.)
So, to maintain peace and order in our little household, it’s looking like a compromise may be in order.
Therefore, I hereby propose:
Painting it half red and half brown.
That way everyone’s happy!! :)
What do you think??
—
p.s. Stay tuned for another movie of the Wooga man doing what he does best: Making me smile.
Save Our Shed
Heidi July 1st, 2008
Please allow me to introduce you…..
….. to our shed.
She’s in our backyard and, as you can see, in dire need of a new complexion.
When we first bought our house and saw our little shed out back, Charming said, “Let’s paint it red with white trim. Like a barn.”
I narrowly eyed the one brown side of the shed and said, “Hm, I don’t know. I kind of like the brown….. I think it would look good in pictures.”
“Aw deeb!” Charming laughed and rolled his eyes affectionately, “Everything comes down to pictures with you, doesn’t it?”
I smiled and shrugged my shoulders, “Maybe.”
Charming smiled back and shook his head and we went back to chasing the Wooga monster around the deck.
Then a couple months later, Charming said again, “I think it’s time to paint the shed. I’d still like to paint it red with white trim. What do you think?”
By this time, my infamous first customers had come and gone and I’d taken this picture:
And I’d roundly decided the brown was what I wanted.
So, I told Charming, “The brown is what I want.”
And being the great sport that he is, he nodded and said, “Okay. Let’s do the brown.”
Then he rummaged around inside the shed and produced a can of finishing stain that the previous owner had left behind.
“I think this is the brown stain they started to use,” Charming said, “I’ll use it to start right away!”
And he eagerly painted a strip on the side of the shed, stepped back, scratched his chin and then came inside to get me.
“Uh, Heidi,” he said in a tone that made me nervous, “It’s not the brown after all…..”
“Holy smokes, you’re right!” I replied, “That’s definitely not the brown…..”
Then we stepped back to assess it.
“So what do you think?” Charming asked, “I kind of like it. And we already have the can. What do you say we just use it and do the whole thing?”
My photographer’s eye recoiled and I said, “Well, it’s okay….. But I don’t think it would look as good in pictures as the neutral brown does. I think it would clash…..”
“You really think so?” Charming asked, looking at it more closely, “I’m not so sure it would. I think it would be okay.”
I looked closer, too, and my photographer’s eye started to really shudder.
“Nope, sorry, I just don’t feel good about this…..” I said, “Do you mind holding off on painting the rest until we can decide?”
Charming nodded in his easygoing manner, “That’s fine. I guess there’s no rush to finish it right now.”
Then I pulled out my pictures and did a little copying and pasting, to get an idea of what that color would have looked like with my first customers…..
And this rough idea is what I came up with.
So now I’m turning to you, my dear friends.
And ask for your help in answering our pressing question…..
*****
*****