As the battle unfolds

Liam plays away. One might think Liam was deaf, inattentive, or maybe sleepwalking. Nope, he's just in a zone with his own thing happening. The chaos without injury can be quite surreal. Natasha & Boris will swirl around living room, biting, jumping, clawing, and growling at each other with a great deal of gusto. They'll run laps around the table and couch. They'll pick up and toss their chew toys. And then Liam will walk through their mist and they simply spin around him. Like I said, surreal. Hard to believe that such a maelstrom would not take him out. Not that I can take it too lightly. Liam has been knocked over, pushed aside like a rag doll. I guess he's just accustomed to physical chaos. Just wait until he can take on Galen such as the dogs do with each other.

BTW, about when this photo was taken the weights were: Liam 30 lbs; Boris 32 lbs; Galen 35 lbs; Natasha 80 lbs. None of your damned business how much I weigh...

I've changed

I've never considered myself overly emotional. While I still feel that way about myself, I gotta say my movie viewing stability has changed. Recently, while Shanna was away, I watched a Showtime movie {title omitted, I take the 5th} . I watched this movie when it first came out and wasn't particularly impressed, OK plot & acting with OK effects.

So why do I believe my stability has changed? Well, I cried.

There were several plot points that forced parents to make some sort of sacrifice to protect their kids. This wasn't a SAW type of movie, these were sacrifices I could relate to, empathize with, and mostly oblige myself to thinking "I'd do that".

Way back when I was a twenty-something, I knew that my "future" kids would make me cry. Little did I know that it would be during a B-movie that they were not starring in...

Yes Linus, there is a Great Pumpkin

Or, how we celebrated Halloween.

We went to to the Minnesota Children's Museum's Spooktacular. Not on Halloween, but the preceding Saturday. On Halloween we joined a neighborhood garage party complete with candy, ghouls, goblins, Pooh Bears, a fire pit, and adult beverages for those so inclined (an 21).

Both nights were fine family fare...