Dragged B to see the Twilight movie again Saturday night. We saw it opening night together, and then I took Emma and Christian the next day to see it. So it was his second time, my third.
I really like it. The screenplay has made the plot cohesive, plus the plot doesn't just appear suddenly 2/3 of the way into the movie. Bella isn't nearly so whiny. Most of the changes were for the better, IMO. Favorite change: the Bella-meets-the-Cullens scene. Oh my gosh it's charming and I wish it had been that way in the book! *hearts Esme* The soundtrack rocks. And Charlie is pitch-perfect throughout. My only complaint is there aren't enough Cullens in the movie. Emmett! Emmett! Emmett!
I think I like the movie better than the book.
And that's really saying something.
I think I've never seen a full-price, first-run movie three times before. The only other possibility, if I have, was Rattle and Hum.
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Now playing: Paramore - Decode from the Twilight soundtrack
via FoxyTunes
07 December 2008
04 December 2008
:) Good news/Bad news :(
Good: after 10.5 years being vegan/mostly vegan, I finally know how to make a FABULOUS creamy dessert! (Did Dream Whip + Jello Instant Pudding [cookies and cream flavor], then poured it over a from-scratch chocolate cookie crust and froze it. No, seriously, it was awesome.)
Bad: I know how to make a fabulous creamy dessert. I'll have to be careful not to make this, like, weekly. Because goodbye, self control! Hello, ice cream maniac!
Here's a little sad ending to Kyrie's birthday yesterday: she came up at 11:45 having thrown up in bed. Needed a bath and clean pajamas. Luckily the washing machine was empty! Just the one time so far, no repeats. And Mack threw up this morning, just once. *hopes it stops*
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Now playing: The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes (Acoustic Version)
via FoxyTunes
Bad: I know how to make a fabulous creamy dessert. I'll have to be careful not to make this, like, weekly. Because goodbye, self control! Hello, ice cream maniac!
Here's a little sad ending to Kyrie's birthday yesterday: she came up at 11:45 having thrown up in bed. Needed a bath and clean pajamas. Luckily the washing machine was empty! Just the one time so far, no repeats. And Mack threw up this morning, just once. *hopes it stops*
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Now playing: The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes (Acoustic Version)
via FoxyTunes
03 December 2008
Fam Spam
Dressing up Macklin when the cold-weather clothes finally came out
Raking the leaves.
To put them on Kyrie.
Halloween costumes
Birthday Boys
Jackson
3 November, 9 years old
Macklin
9 November, 3 years old
Thanksgiving
~or~ what the kids did while I was cooking
(they took pictures of each other)
(I asked Emma to do Macklin's hair. *eyeroll*)
And here's about half our food, the other half being on the table but not photographed.
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Now playing: Kurt Bestor - A Mother's Christmas Lullaby
via FoxyTunes
Her Majesty turns 5
Our family tradition is to give the kids their presents early on their birthday morning. I guess we don't much see the point of making them wait all day long? So we woke Kyrie and all the others this morning at 6:20 before B left for work and commenced with the festivities.
A dress up birthday! On Saturday we'll have a tea party for her friends, and they'll sit around looking dressed up and eating tiny cookies and cakes. I can hardly wait!
Now I need to go do my best to fake an ice cream cake, her single request for the day. Chocolate cookie crust, cookies-n-cream pudding fluffed up and frozen on top. Hope she likes it. Happy Birthday, Kyrie!
A dress up birthday! On Saturday we'll have a tea party for her friends, and they'll sit around looking dressed up and eating tiny cookies and cakes. I can hardly wait!
Now I need to go do my best to fake an ice cream cake, her single request for the day. Chocolate cookie crust, cookies-n-cream pudding fluffed up and frozen on top. Hope she likes it. Happy Birthday, Kyrie!
02 December 2008
The Mack that rules the World
Or at least, the house.
We bought for the kids a Playmobil Nativity this year, a nativity that isn't ceramic or breakable or precious so they could play with it. Macklin took it over and occasionally divvies out the characters so others can have a turn, but he's very possessive. We want them all to share it, so even though I find his enthusiasm endearing, I took away the set late in the afternoon yesterday and gave it a time out to quell the arguing.
Mack stumbled out of bed this morning, his eyes still bleary, and padded into where I was. "Mom, where you put the Jesus born box?" First thing he wanted to play with this morning. Of course I gave it back. *softy*
He loves the movie Kung Fu Panda. My sister took all my kids and hers to see the movie (7 + 3 = 10!) when B and I left them with her for an overnighter at the end of August, and Mack has been asking for it ever since. We borrowed the DVD from a neighbor and the kids watched it twice in three days. Just now Macklin was jumping off the step down between the kitchen and the schoolroom, doing a little spin and lifting one leg. "Mom, watch me do Tung Fu!" he yelled, jumping and spinning over and over. "My doing Tung Fu!"
He says his Rs perfectly (unlike Jackson, Ethan, and Kyrie who were all 4YO or so before they mastered that sound), but his K sound he says like a T and his G sound he says like a D. So he's doing Tung Fu with Tyrie. ;) My sister said that when we were all camping and hiking in September, they came to a little riverbed (river dry, as so many are by September here, but about a three-foot drop from where they were to the riverbed) and Mack said, "Mine dosh duys, we die down dere!"* Her family says it all the time. Tee hee.
*Translation if needed: "My gosh guys, we'll die down there!" Not sure why he thought a three foot drop from soft sand to soft sand was so perilous, though. :D
We bought for the kids a Playmobil Nativity this year, a nativity that isn't ceramic or breakable or precious so they could play with it. Macklin took it over and occasionally divvies out the characters so others can have a turn, but he's very possessive. We want them all to share it, so even though I find his enthusiasm endearing, I took away the set late in the afternoon yesterday and gave it a time out to quell the arguing.
Mack stumbled out of bed this morning, his eyes still bleary, and padded into where I was. "Mom, where you put the Jesus born box?" First thing he wanted to play with this morning. Of course I gave it back. *softy*
He loves the movie Kung Fu Panda. My sister took all my kids and hers to see the movie (7 + 3 = 10!) when B and I left them with her for an overnighter at the end of August, and Mack has been asking for it ever since. We borrowed the DVD from a neighbor and the kids watched it twice in three days. Just now Macklin was jumping off the step down between the kitchen and the schoolroom, doing a little spin and lifting one leg. "Mom, watch me do Tung Fu!" he yelled, jumping and spinning over and over. "My doing Tung Fu!"
He says his Rs perfectly (unlike Jackson, Ethan, and Kyrie who were all 4YO or so before they mastered that sound), but his K sound he says like a T and his G sound he says like a D. So he's doing Tung Fu with Tyrie. ;) My sister said that when we were all camping and hiking in September, they came to a little riverbed (river dry, as so many are by September here, but about a three-foot drop from where they were to the riverbed) and Mack said, "Mine dosh duys, we die down dere!"* Her family says it all the time. Tee hee.
*Translation if needed: "My gosh guys, we'll die down there!" Not sure why he thought a three foot drop from soft sand to soft sand was so perilous, though. :D
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