Truth Model

There is a disturbance down in the gulf that will probably develop into a depression today and potentially continue on to a hurricane. When I peaked at the tracking predictions last night this is what it looked like. Did you really need fancy algorithms and computing power to come up with likely land strikes on Louisiana or Florida?

End of Story

This morning I had an old Betty Grable movie on while I was playing with Zara, Pin Up Girl. While I like old movies, sometimes they leave me completely baffled by the endings. Normally, I'd give you a spoiler alert here, but seriously you can tell exactly what the ending is so you might as well keep reading. That and the movie is from 1944, so if you haven't seen it then you likely weren't going to and who cares.

The plot is one of those super believable ones, where the guy is in love with a stage star whose daytime alter ego is as his mild mannered secretary to which he doesn't realize they are the same person. But getting past all that, the movie ends with a way too long and mostly irrelevant musical sequence in which he is in the audience for the big reveal. Which he only figures out because she goes on stage in the same clothes he just saw her in. I know the the guys is a genius!. And then that's it, nothing, "The End", credits roll. Most of the time old movies have very little resolution beyond the 'happily ever after ending'. But in this case it hardly even seems like an ending, more like they just ran out of film after the extraordinarily long music number. Anyone else find the lack of even a pretense of closure in movies annoying even it is supposed to be assumed they live happily ever after?

Big Bites

We've been introducing non-pureed foods to Zara for several weeks now and even the pureed foods I've been making chunkier and less smooth. We didn't have any issues with her continuing to eat what was served up... until last week on vacation. Zara has refused almost all spoon-fed pureed foods for a week now with a few exceptions like yogurt in the morning. She is apparently a big girl now and we have moved right along to regular(ish) foods either finger fed by herself or by us.

The only thing we aren't looking forward to about this is letting her have the spoon. Maybe one night this week we'll just strip her down and let her have at it and see how much food makes it into her mouth.

Yankee'Z

We are up in Connecticut visiting family this week and have been having a great time seeing everyone. But yesterday was our 8th Anniversary and we got tickets to the afternoon Yankees game to take Zara to her first game, see the new stadium, and John's uncle Rick also came. But we had awesome tickets to the Champions Suite, row 4, which includes a private area to get food (free/included) and restrooms and everything. It was an awesome way to see our first game in the new Yankee Stadium, great weather, and the Yanks won in a walk off two run shot by Swisher. Plus, since we were sitting right behind the ball boy we also got a ball from him when the game ended which will be going in Zara's room to commemorate her first Yankee's baseball game. Couldn't have asked for a better game or a better way to celebrate our anniversary.

Also snapped a picture of Zara with her great-grandfather Merancy, who seems to like his second great-grandchild a bunch. We've had a great time up here, but haven't been pulling out the camera a whole lot during the visiting. So I am a bit remiss and don't have a lot of other pictures to post other than one I got from playing outside with daddy.