April 2, 2004
Friday Penance
Tonight we are off to see the purple lizard. I don't dislike the title character so much as one Baby Bop, who makes me hit the cookbooks for Alligator recipes, assuming that dinosaur tastes "just like Alligator." The only thing that makes it worthwhile is how excited Amalia has been about it. Now, she is bored to tears with the show. If she turns on the TV and it is on, she turns it off immediately, but she has always liked the dinosaur himself, so she has been very excited about seeing Barney (especially since we are taking the BART choo choo to get there). I will post my review later this weekend.
The last one of these craptacular kids' spectacles we went to was "Bob the Builder." I had never seen the TV show before (still haven't, after seeing what I saw at the live show). I was outraged. This Bob is an idiot, and the State should yank his contractor's license immediately! I posted all about his errors and worthless procedures last year (prize to the first person who finds it in the archives).
I, on the other hand, am more excited to see the Wiggles in two weeks. Fruit salad, yummy yummy! My favorite Wiggles tune is "Quackadoodle." I hope they play it. Otherwise I am going to be the only grown-up in the Arena standing up yelling, "qua, qua, qua, qua, quack, cock-a-doodle doo..." I suppose if one has a favorite Wiggles tune, one is in risk of being stripped of the title "Grown-up." Perhaps they will know me, like ex-PFC Wintergreen as ex-Grown Up Keilholtz. Uh-oh.
Posted by erik at April 2, 2004 3:21 PM | TrackBackYou, too, Mark? If we are not careful they will lock us up.
Awright, Clancey, it's those two who alternate between singing in Latin and Wiggles tunes. You hit 'em and I'll put the bag over their heads. We can at least get them into 72 hours observation.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at April 5, 2004 10:14 AMAhoy, there. Ahoy, there. Ahoy-cockadoodlie-there.
From Captain Feathersword, with his compliments.
Posted by: Mark C. N. Sullivan at April 5, 2004 6:39 AMUgh. Even when I was a kid I thought the pizza at Chuck E. Cheese was horrid. Pizza has to be really bad for a kid to notice at a place like that. Now the thought of going there gives me the shivers. Fortunately we don't have one too close (that I know of). Hopefully we can miss that whole phase. I would take 10 Barney shows over a party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at April 4, 2004 10:52 PMI am going through a "my baby is fixin' to be 18" funk, and I see very little good about the situation.
UNTIL I read about this.
At least, until the grandchildren come along, I will not have to even THINK about going to a show with a giant purple dinosaur in it.
Woo hoo!
My dread was the inevitable kid birthday parties at my most hated destination: Chuck E. Cheese. Lousy pizza. Awful music. Screaming children. Noise level approximately equivalent to a fighter jet overhead, but continuing non-stop for 2 hours.
I would rather stick needles in my eyes than go to another party at Churck E. Cheese.
God does grant SOME favors to us moms at the end of our momming role.
Posted by: Terry at April 4, 2004 8:31 PMHA! What a hoot.
You couldn't pay me to go see torture like that! I've been to amusement parks, circuses, and playgrounds of every stripe; but live actors lisping in Barney suits would be just too much for this frazzled old mom to take!
Posted by: KTC at April 3, 2004 6:03 AM