We have a 13hr flight, a 3hr layover then another 2hr flight to get us to Manila.

Hopefully Caleb will sleep for a big part of the flight since our first one leaves at 1:30 in the morning. But there will still be a lot of time when he is awake. So this is what I have so far to keep him busy.

Lacing toys - brand new he hasn’t seen them yet
Kid K’nex - also new, he saw the box but doesn’t know what they are
4 Cars Books with a CD - I have copied the CD onto my computer and will put it on the ipod as back ups incase we dont have a cd player
3 coloring books, crayons and stickers - I just took the ones out of his room, but the stickers are new
story books - newish ones but he has seen them

the long flight has a tv on the back of each seat, and each person can pick their own movie, and it has games too. I’m pretty sure the short one has stuff like that too, but I am not totally sure on that.

So what do you think? Does that look like enough stuff to keep a 3 year old busy?

Then I guess I will get more stuff in Manila for the return flight if I have to.

Caleb has starting the phase where he makes up crazy stories about what happened

I told Caleb not to open the bubbles or they will spill, I leave for a minute to come out to see the bubbles spilled.
“Caleb what happened?”
“Ummm…the deck got wet.”
“Wet?”
“The sink walked over here and sploded”

“Caleb why is your yogurt on the floor?”
“The spoon jumped and wanted to be on the floor”
“It wanted to be on the floor?”
“Yes, it likes the floor” said with a very serious face
“What about the yogurt?”
“It likes the floor too.”

Caleb’s Logic

“There is 2 Nannies”
“What? Who is the other Nannie”
“Nannie is at the hospital, the other Nannie is at Auntie Colleen’s house”
“That is the same Nannie, she isn’t at the hospital anymore, she got to go to her house”
“No, Nannie can’t walk. How did she get in the car with her leg is broken?”
“She has the special chair to get her to the car so she can go home”
“No. You can’t have a chair in a car”

“What is mice?”
“Mice are what you call it if there is more then one mouse. So if there was just one you would say mouse, but if there was another mouse and another mouse you would say there are mice.”
“Oh. A lot of mouses is mice!”

Random people in Santa Cruz

I got in my car after going to starbucks and in the car next to me is an older, gray haired lady, in a pink frilly, flowery shirt sitting in her car with her starbucks in one hand and a fat cigar in her mouth.

On the radio the DJ was talking about wearing mis-matched socks because she was sure that her dryer had eaten on of every pair. A caller called in saying at their house they call it “They great sock rapture…one gets taken and the other gets left behind” I was doing laundry the other day and as I throwing clothes in the washer one of Caleb’s socks went through little spot between the round inner part of the washer and the frame of the washer. So now I wonder if it is really the washer to blame and not the dryer. If there is a washing machine expert reading this…is there an easy way to get that sock out?

Other interesting things

I turned in a job application at a Jr College a while ago, I don’t really remember when…maybe around September or something. Anyway they called me to come in and for an interview next Friday. The timing is totally God because 2 weeks ago I told my current job that I will be leaving on the 16th. And the interview is on the 18th. God was even cool enough to give schedule it on Friday so I still have my birthday off.

Expert

We were playing Loaded Questions and one of the questions that came up is ‘What do you consider yourself an expert at?’ I couldn’t think of what to put. I consider myself good at a lot of things, but an expert…. Other people said they thought that I would consider myself an expert at ebay or sign language. While I think that I am good at both of those, I know that I still have a lot to learn as well. But after reviewing my life I would have to say that I am an expert at being late. That is the only thing I am very consistent at. What do you consider yourself to be an expert at?

I have been playing this game that Tim showed me a while ago. I passed the normal mode after a few tries but the hard mode is really hard. But this afternoon I finally did it. I won. I don’t recommend this game to anyone who doesn’t want to sit on their computers for hours because it is very addicting.

As you can see from the picture I even had 9 lives left and 90 gold. Luckily the score box is in front of most of it so you can’t see what I did and you will have to figure it out yourself if you want to win.

Baskin Robbins is having a 31 cent ice cream night tonight from 5-10pm. The money will go towards a Firefighter Foundation.