Saturday, October 21, 2006

End of Summer Pictures-

Sorry I have not posted lately, but, and will laspe into my Boston persona here, I have been wicked busy lately. Here are some pictures of my brood doing all sorts of interesting and exciting things. Feel free to download them and trade them with your friends. Of course if anyone were to make t-shirts and sell them, I would want a cut. But on with the photos.


Here is two that actually have nothing to do with Fall. The one to the left is Leo showing the boys how to use their new super terrific ball machine. They were always getting distracted by the loud music and disorienting colors and forgot what button needed pushing, luckily Leo was their to set them straight.




Here is one where Harry/Jack is in the first stages of being mauled by Itchy the Cat. Now the boy was saved by a rather mean series of barks from Chris, the dog not the Mom. So please do not worry about the excess of wild life we have in our little abode, it comes out in a wash. And if we learned anything from the Lion King its that balance is important. Too true.





On to the Fall pics. Here is a couple of the breavason boys relaxing in the back yard. The librarian was hard at work in the book mines, but they seem to have a pretty good time. This first one has Leo monopolizing all the toys and that is not a real monkey he is torturing- just a dead on replica- spooky isn't it.





This next one is of Harry. In this picture he is actually backing up. I can hear you saying- sure he his Mr Librarian, he is moving backwards, rightttt. But trust me he was attempting an rather elaborate escape plan for a 9 month old. Well the plan was just to back up until he was in Canada, but that's still impressive for a lad with his level of experience. I am sure the plans will get much better. This time we got lucky, he only on 10 inches off the blanket. Next time, I hope their is no next time.


Here is picture of Leo on the climbing toy. Now the only reason that this picture is included is that Leo is wearing one snazzy shirt. The Librarian can't wear shirts like that, he just looks like a car salesmen that you would be willing to hide in a trunk to avoid. Leo on the other hand looks great. You would definitely buy a car from him and he would probably be able to slip in a rust coating charge and you wouldn't even mind.




Turning now to the Librarians over arching goal to getting his boys to do all his work for him are these two pictures of the older boys, Iver and Leo, learning about the importance of streaking in window washing. In this first one Iver is working hard on getting it right, but Leo seems a little disinterested. I felt that his heart was not in it and had a little heart to heart with him. Now if you were to ask him about that confab, he might try to imply that a total ban on Dora The Explorer was in his future, but that is a total lie and I dare you to prove it.



This next picture you see a properly motivated and excited 3 year old. Iver is working his tail off like always, but this time we get a glimpse of Leo getting down and dirty making sure that the window is free and clear of streaks. Just think in about 10 years I will be sitting on my large can watching my offspring work my house over. Dare to Dream Mr. Librarian. Dare to dream.






Moving on to boys who like to wears stripy shirts we move inside to the spacious living room and get a couple really sweet shots of three stripy shirts. The first to belong to Harry and Jack. They just love their stripy shirts. In fact they will go so far as to pee on any shirt that is not stripy. True story.





Next here is Leo getting down to some the Librarians funky music. Now Mrs Librarian would rather her Husbands music not be played the minors presence, but they just love it. Look at him he is stripy shirt wearing John Travolta. I cannot wait till he makes his comeback in the stripy shirt Pulp Fiction.





Here is two shots of random fall activities: The first one is of Iver's and Leo's Halloween Gingerbread house. Look at the detail. Now if I was to tell you that either the librarian or the boys did most of the fine artwork on this piece would you have different opinions of the overall worth of the endeavor. We if you would then shame on you. The Librarian is just trying to spend some quality time with his kids and then you come and tear it all down just because doors all crooked and the window looks kind of saggy. And you wonder why the world going down the drain. Its not
all on George Bush.


And last but not least hear is a the twins getting ready to go out into the cold. This is the first time they put on their snow suits and Mrs Librarian almost fainted from the sheer cuteness of the whole operation. You decide.

Well thats it for now but please leave me a comment if you would like to tell me how great my kids are. If you don't like my kids, then keep it to yourself. Thanks



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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Good Things Do Happen to Good People- I got a New T.V


It was a very exciting week for us in the Breva-Erickson household. Mindy and Lance came to visit from the 'old country', I got a raise and transferred to the Apple Valley Library full time, Iver was made a prestigious Line Leader at school, Leo is getting used to his brother not being around all the time, and we got a New T.V.

Now to most of you getting a new TV would not be a big deal, but I have only owned two new TV’s in my long life and frankly that just is not fair. The first one I bought when I was 10 years old with my Newspaper delivery money. It was a 12 inch black and white set that I planned on bring to college- you know a cool dorm TV. But when it was actually time to go to college it turns out a 12 inch black and white TV just didn't make on the coolness scale. Which is actually for the best because it turned out that I was too much of a chicken to actually live in a dorm and having an inadequate TV didn't really matter.

The second TV I have purchased was a 12 inch color set. Notice a trend. Now this TV worked for us for a long time. It was very useful when Mrs. Librarian enjoyed sitting close to me and watching TV together. Now that ship as sailed. I am pretty sure that she wouldn't sit next to me on purpose without a rather good reason and latest episode of Grey's Anatomy ain't one of them. Add to that it just look sad as your main TV. So it was time to move up and thanks to Aunt Karen- she's from California ya know- we got to move into the 21 century, TV wise. She was scandalized by our TV and sent me money to buy a better one. I think it made her sick thinking about her grand nephews trying to watch Lion King on some dinkish clown TV. They just think clearer out on the left coast- even if they did elect the Terminator.

What we got- you can see the picture- is an 20 inch LCD flat screen EDTV. That means digital to you tech heads out there and when you get good reception the picture is pristine- it brought a tear to my eye more that once. That leads me to my new problem- lack of cable/satellite TV- recection is hit and miss. So if any of other relatives out there want to help with that I am all ears. Until then I will train the boys to hold the antenna- don't worry it builds character.



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