Wednesday, June 10, 2009

As I'm sitting on my couch on this rainy day in Utah while little Ellie sleeps, I received a call from Hubert who tells me that Mark-Paul Gosselaar was on the Jimmy Fallon show, but not as Mark-Paul Gosselaar.  So I Youtube the episode and out on the stage walks Zack Morris from the timeless Saturday morning show, "Saved By The Bell," and don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.  Now, not only was he dressed like him with his fabulously hairsprayed hair, pegged pants, and white high-tops, he was actually Zack Morris and I have to say that it made me laugh pretty hard.  So to all of you hardcore "Saved By The Bell" fans, here you go.


Thursday, June 4, 2009

A one-sided conversation


Last week, Ellie and I ventured out and visited the Layton Park where there is often an eclectic bunch of people most of which we like, but on this particular day there seemed to be a field trip from a nearby junior high and me over-hearing their conversations and praying I wasn't that dumb as a kid. But besides that, it's a good park. But the best part are the ducks and geese and at this time of year they have all of their little babies that Ellie loves to see so we decided it would be a good day to go and feed them. And after walking around for a while, Ellie eating the bread instead of giving it to the birds, and that incident where two ducks seemed to be violently mating which was sufficiently awkward for every watching, the fun began. You see, Ellie has quite a large vocabulary for a 21 month old and loves to talk and talk, so you can imagine how excited she was when right in front of us there were two geese just standing there. I found this to be so funny because she was chasing after these poor ducks, while yell/talking to them, and trying to feed them. And this was her conversation with accompanying pictures.

Ellie: "ducks, Ducks, DUCKS!"

Ducks: (looking up at her)

Ellie: "Ducks. What are you doing, ducks?"

Ducks: (Slowly waddling away)

Ellie: "Ducks. DUCKS! Where are you going, ducks?"

Ducks: (More quickly waddling away)

Ellie: "Ducks, momma say bread for ducks. Ducks, eats bread, ducks."

Ducks: (One of them stops and slowly walks toward her to actually get the bread Ellie is holding out)

Meagan: (starting to panic)

Ellie: "No ducks, bread for Ellie, not ducks." (Walking away)

Ducks: (Confused)

It was a good moment.