Storytime With Fox

One more Fox video, this one is for his Mommy. While she was away in South Carolina, Fox wanted to read me a story about Mommies. The book is called "Mudpie For Mommy", and it's about a little pig who tries to gather up nice things to give to his Mommy on her birthday.

Merry Christmas from Fox

Fox wanted to say Merry Christmas to his family!

Fox is walking!

Finally, he's walking around by himself. For the past two weeks, he's been learning how to crawl, then walk again. He's gotten to the point where he could walk fine, but had to hold one of our hands just for reassurance.

He had taken a step or two without holding on, but as soon as he realized it, he would either sit down or cry and want to be held. I guess he just didn't have enough confidence in walking to try it by himself, even though we've been encouraging him constantly.

Tuesday night, Michelle covertly videotaped him walking across the living room. He was so engrossed in playing with his toys, he didn't think about what he was doing.

Later, she told him he could walk by himself, and he said "No, I can't!". So she brought out the video camera and SHOWED him the video above. Once he realized that was him and that he could indeed walk by himself, he was OK with it. He's been walking by himself ever since.

He still looks like a little old man when he walks, but he's getting stronger every day.

Silly Band Names

I considered titling this entry "Even More AWESOMENESS", but I realized most of these aren't actually awesome, just odd.

I was cleaning out our office/guest bedroom this week and ran across a list of band names I had compiled - probably about 8-10 years ago.

It was a full page of names I had written out, some from a list someone else had compiled, some from a band-name-generator I used, and some names I just made up.

Here are some of the best:

The Other Dilemmas
Hold the Humility
Delightfully Uncouth
The Knicker-Wearers
Not Just For Whitey
The Fringe Jackets
Mr. Smarty-Pants
The Emperors of the Milky Way Galaxy
The Band That Shot Liberty Valance
The Band From U.N.C.L.E. (My personal favorite)
Mommy Don't Let Your Kids Join The Sanhedrin
Jive Talkin' Turkeys
Last of the Red Hot Doggies
Glass Darkly
Shorn Like Bjorn
The Khaki Slackers
Schrödinger's Cats (This one was for Michael)


I did some Googling on the interwebs, and found that some of these have actually become real bands. Awesome.

So, help me come up with some more silly names. Respond in the comments...