Perhaps a mistake on my part

Took the child to Michael's for some black Friday shopping.  (Note to self: don't do this in the future.  People be crazy.)  Gwen and I have been there once before and we determined that it is the "stuff store".  She asks me "what's that?" and the only thing I can respond with is "stuff" since I have absolutely no idea what anything is. 

Jenni went off to do her shopping so Gwen and I wandered around the store.  We ended up in the "foamies" isle.  This is random stuff made out of foam; don't ask me who comes up with these names.  In any case, she grabbed one of these so of course I had to grab one too.

I felt morally obliged to teach her how to use it (start self defense training young!), and she ended up doing this:

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At this point a family squeezed through the isle and the pre-teen girl mentioned "violence sure starts early".  My only response was "Yes.  Yes it does", before describing my own sword collection to her.  She did not appear to be impressed.  Kids these days, I swear.

Jenni seemed annoyed at me once she saw the pictures for some reason.  I really don't understand that woman sometimes...

A few more pics:

The child had a hard weekend.  We were heading home from daycare to go to dinner with some coworkers when she decided that it was a GREAT time to be sick.  No change of clothes (I didn't have the full diaper bag with me) and we're still 20+ minutes from home, so it was not a happy ride for her.  All the rest of Friday night was spent repeating the performance every 30 minutes or so.

Saturday was much better, but dear LORD she was cranky.  Understandably so, of course.  Took an extra nap and ate almost nothing.

Sunday was nearly an entire day of sleep.  We did make it out to the park, but she mostly wanted me to carry her around.  Managed to eat a little bit more at least.  Poor child.

Neither of us appear to have gotten the stomach bug.  Yet.

Throwing gang signs at dinner

In response to "Smile!"

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Crazy thing at daycare today:

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Bedtime!

Gwen's on-demand "happy face", after having her hair tied up all day

The on-demand "angry face"

She wanted to read her bedtime book in the box today.

Pics at daycare

Just some random stuff.

Sandbox and obstacle course

WORM!

Is it edible?

One of the sensory tables.  This one is filled with corn, but their contents get swapped out.  The one behind this one is filled with millet at the moment.

I don't understand what it is these kits get out of filling containers with millet, but they certainly do enjoy it.

One short artist.

Gwen and Lucy painting

Maybe we can get her into algebra by kindergarten...

The look of absolute concentration.  Or extreme sleepiness.  Not sure which.

Halloween

Some oft-requested Halloween pics.

The night of

Getting ready to head out

Still waiting on Dad

This is by far my favorite holiday

I SEE CANDY!

Those owl feet were a nightmare.  She refused to wear socks or shoes under them, so they came off constantly.  This was quite distressing to her and dropped our pace to a crawl.  Not literally crawling, that might have been faster.

And as for the trick-or-treating itself, it could have gone better.  At the very first house we made it to, a boy wearing a zombie mask answered the door.  Oh, the times you wish you had a camera trained on your child.  We got her calmed down before the next house, but the boy seemed to feel bad for making her cry.

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Trick-or-treating at the Department of Education while at daycare

Notice she's not wearing the owl feet.  The daycare providers are smarter than we are.

Ready for bed in skeleton pajamas from Grandma

Quack!

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Random tech

Just two pictures of stuff I'm playing with right now:

Frankenputer!

For this one, my desk is on the right.  Joseph (mostly pictured) was too lazy to move the oscilloscope over to his desk, so he just puts the unit on the floor and stretches cables across the office instead.

On the bright side, I'm now officially a project engineer!  Granted, the project is just that little silver box on the floor, but it's still something. 

That box of diet pepsi under my desk really needs to go, it expired over a year ago and they just taste nasty...

Just having some silly, excited fun.

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Climbin'

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