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Run Forrest! Run!!!!

Even though it’s Ramadan and Ben likes to conserve his energy on weekends, I dragged him to Aliya and Adlani’s soccer games yesterday so he could see what he needs to work on with them. He spent his youth playing soccer daily and it’s a crime if he doesn’t pass those skills on to the kids. It was Adlani’s first game with the new U6 (Under 6) Fireballs. He has Aliya’s coach from last year and is on the same team with Griffin and Noah. I’m hoping that he eventually catches on, but I think there’s a good chance he will end up in the marching band. Aliya played goalie and due to the skills of the Absolutes she had plenty of time for hair-twirling and wedgie-picking, and they remain undefeated after 2 games. Hopefully Ben will be taking full advantage of the official soccer net in our next-door neighbors’ yard to get some extra practice in over the next few weeks.


Arthur and Word Girl

Word Girl and Arthur made an appearance at OSV over Labor Day weekend so we stopped by for the last visit of the summer. We had a great time as usual. The exposure therapy seems to be working because Norah wouldn’t leave poor Word Girl alone until she got at least 15 high-5’s. She wasn’t too sure about Arthur though.




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Here’s a Cute One…

Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, “Son, how old are you?”
“Eight,” the boy replied.
The man continued, “Do you know what these are used for?”
The boy replied, “Not exactly, but they aren’t for me. They’re for him. He’s my brother. He’s four. We saw on TV that if you use these you would be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now, he can’t do either one.”

That reminds me of a conversation I had with Adlani’s friend’s mom, a 5th grade health teacher. She was telling me about the questions her students have asked her (which, by the way, reaffirmed my opinion that we should never see the health teacher on the list of budget cuts again). During the segment on menstruation, one of the boys asked, “Are you sure it’s blood that comes out?” When the teacher assured him that it is indeed blood, he asked, “Are you sure it’s not blue juice?” Think about it…every commercial for sanitary napkins and tampons shows blue juice. Why is that? Something to think about.
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Attack with a Deadly…Sausage??

I was headed for bed when I decided to check my favorite news site before turning in, and it’s a good thing I did or I might have missed this amazing story from the Daily Telegram:

Weirdest Burglary Ever?
September 07, 2008 12:00am

A BURGLAR who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man in the face and head before he ran out the house, Fresno County sheriff’s deputies said Saturday.

Lieutenant Ian Burrimond of Fresno County, California, described the crime as one of the strangest he had ever heard of.

He said a suspect was found hiding in a nearby field a few minutes later and taken into custody on suspicion of residential robbery.

Deputies, he said, had no problem linking the suspect to the crime.

“It seems the guy ran out of the house wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, leaving behind his wallet with his ID,” Burrimond said.

Arrested was Antonio Vasquez, 22, of Fresno.

Burrimond said deputies were dispatched to the victims’ home in the 300 block of South Thompson Avenue near Kings Canyon Road shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday regarding a burglary in progress.

The victims, both farmworkers, told deputies they were awakened by a stranger applying spices to one of the them and striking the other with a sausage.

Both the spices and the sausage, Burrimond said, reportedly were obtained from the victims’ kitchen.

After the man fled, the victims discovered the home had been ransacked and that some money was taken, Burrimond said.

Burrimond said the money was recovered, but that the piece of sausage used in the attack was discarded by the suspect and eaten by a dog.

“That’s right, the dog ate the weapon,” Burrimond said.

“I tell you, this was one weird case.”

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24307571-5001021,00.html
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