Kow Kow gave J the present that he’s been saving for nearly 4 years. He bought it when J was a few months old, and it’s this Beauty and the Beast talking figurine set, complete with ballroom doors, a dance floor, and the rose under glass. Anyway, when you put the figures on certain spots, it plays a bit of dialogue from the movie. One of the lines is Belle asking “What’s behind this door?” J quickly quipped…”Lucky Ducks!”, looking through the doors at the game sitting behind it!
It’s 10:50PM and J is still awake. Our lunch / AGO excursion was a success, but she crashed afterwards at around 4:15 and slept till 6. It means that she’s completely messed up now… good thing there’s a birthday party tomorrow. That should completely mess her up, and then she’ll go to bed early. We have a nice quiet evening planned…
Ansel Adams / Eisenstaedt was fun. Not as leisurely a time as I would have liked, but to be expected with a 4 year old to corral. I noticed that all the pictures are hung too high for little kids, and there’s a lot of reflections for them to contend with. I guess that’s why she was happier when I carried her. We spent the most time looking at “Rose on Driftwood”. She seemed to like that one. Because the AGO is under construction, there was not a whole lot to see. Actually, it was probably fine, because as it was we spent nearly 2 hours there. There happened to be a kids art installation which was more like a play area, so there were some construction toys we played with for a while, and some paper to draw on, which she did.
Hmm.. sounds quiet upstairs… Birthday girl is finally asleep.
There really is something about viewing the Adams prints in real life, not reproduced in books or posters. I was struck by how sharp they were, how detailed, and yet how small. The posters you buy are bigger than the actual prints he made. One of the prints which I have in a wall calendar was very small, 4 or 5 inches square. Maybe it was a contact print. Anyway, I thought it was quite small, and surprised.
It helps my thought process actually, because I’ve been wondering if I really need a wider format printer than 13″. Oh yeah, I’m thinking about printers, in case you didn’t know. More on that later. Anyway, perhaps there is something to be said for printing ’small’ (although 13 x 19 really isn’t small) and viewing the prints more intimately, at 3 to 5 feet.
Anyway… enough musing for one night. Time to finish preparations. I’m off!
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Been battling a sore throat that wouldn’t go away. Better now.
J’s birthday party is this weekend. She’s been counting the days for over a week now. She’s been itching to decorate for almost as long. On the weekend I relented and helped her hang up a few paper snowflakes we had made. That seemed to satisfy her for a few days, anyway.
She’s more excited about the party than her actual birthday, which is the day before.
It’s a secret, so don’t tell, but I have the day off on her birthday, and I plan on taking J to the AGO on her birthday, just her and I. There’s a Ansel Adams / Eisenstaedt exhibit there right now. Maybe we’ll go out for fish and chips for lunch first.
I want to start traditions in our family, and a father-daughter birthday outing is a great idea. Doing something was my wife’s idea, I can’t take all the credit. Going to the AGO was my idea. J’s been asking about going for a long time, and we keep telling her “when you’re older”. Well, I guess she’s older! I have a feeling we won’t be in the gallery long, but at least she’ll get a taste.
She really is getting older. She plays on the computer now… her favourite site is uptoten.com. Kwala and Boowa are on there, and they have lots of games and animations to watch. It’s pretty silly. Her current fave song to sing is “Our friend the jolly snowman, has a very big ab-Do-men…” You have to hear it to appreciate the true heights of silliness this song reaches. As it turns out, Kwala has the same birthday as J, which was kind of a bizarre coincidence. Sharing your birthday with a cartoon character, how odd.
I mean, why would FedEx list a location as being a drop off centre when they’re not? I went there, and they said they wouldn’t be set up for a week. Ahhh! Of course, it was 4:15 and too late to go anywhere else, not that I could remember where any of the other locations were… this place was like an internet cafe / falafel house / corner store. I guess you get hungry for some food while you’re pwning your friends…
discovered a new show today… 30 Rock. It’s pretty good, I think. I liked Studio 60 (cancelled yet? not yet.) but it was kind of too serious, and I never got to see enough of the sketches. At least with 30 Rock you don’t see the sketch but the rest of the show is actually funny. And Alec Baldwin deserves that Golden Globe for the show… he’s so straight it’s hilarious.
I am the dad of two girls, a husband, and a Mac Nerd.
I work two part time jobs as a music pastor and recording engineer, and do photography on the side. I often feel like a jack-of-all trades, master of none.
This is my place to geek out.
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