I heart Captain Von Trapp

The girls wanted to watch a movie to wait for Brian to come home last night - he wagon his way back from his tri-weekly trip to PDX.  We indoctrinated Robin to the Sound of Music last night.  She loved it, and asked question after question about Maria.... why is she wearing that on her head?  Where does she live?  What are they singing about her?

I think she fell asleep right after the Leisl and Rolf "I am 16" number.

Erin made it a little further, and conked out right after the kids fell off the boat into the river.

Seriously, Christopher Plumber had it going on!

I Heart Bruce

Just downloaded this from Amazon.  I'm so excited to watch it.  However, the girls took a long time tonight to settle to sleep..... we only have 24 hours to watch the entire thing. It will have to wait.

Movie Night: Finding Nemo

I'm having a hard time getting my brain around this video. It looks like Erin is going on eight years old.

Note the Jiffy Pop. Dr. A says it was quite the center of conversation in the checkout line at Safeway.



Also of note: we had to fast forward through the scary parts in Finding Nemo. Seriously, they need to come up with a rating that's like sub-G or something.

It's uncanny.

This counts as a date!

Last night, we actually cooked something for the first time in over a month. Never mind that it was potatoes from our CSA that made its last veggie box drop in early October. We cooked, darnit, and it was delicious! Who can resist stick-to-yer-ribs comfortfood scalloped potatoes with cheese?


To top it off we watched two ENTIRE movies, start to finish, without significant breaks. Will wonders never cease? Sat. night was "Sicko", followed on Sunday by "Michael Moore Hates America." Both are recommended - the former being a commentary on the US health care system, the latter being at first an expose on the rotund docomentarian but quickly morphing into an introspective work on the act of creating a documentary film. An interesting quote (not 100% correct): "The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity." The McMiller household believes in fair, balanced entertainment.