we/are/warren

On a trip to the park Della was wading on the shoreline. Her boots were fit for deep puddles. So, easy enough. Well, she tripped and got soaked up to the waist. She asked that now that she was wet, could she go a little further and touch the rock?

Yes.

The aftermath was cups of water pouring out of her boots an a wet shoulder ride to the car.

Epic.

Snow line starts at 3000 feet hopefully. Let’s see what the winter storms brought us.

We are looking forward to April 16, 2010.

Girl? Boy? Della has nicknamed the new Warren ’shirt’. Seems like a good nickname. We won’t know more for a few weeks.

After a long slumber from this part of our public writings.  We’re back.

What’s going on right now?

• April 16th 2010 (more on that in a second)
• Washed out.
• Floored (The Movie)
• Recovered 106% from a motorcycle crash (yeh, oops).
• New office
• Giving old things in boxes new homes.
• The Halloween Fairy (ask Della)

Apologies in advance if we deleted you from this blog.  There were some web issues that involved so fake-ish looking acounts, they had to go.  That said.  If you really are a long lost friend with a new email address in Russia.  Let us know.

xo/

-J

Not sure what this means or where it came from. Over coffee (and after about 7 hours of Xmas music) Della gave the above statement. Beach boys Xmas? The 8bit Xmas? Something inspired it.

Somehow, it became May 5th (well, yesterday if we want to be specific).  It’s still raining quite a bit … So that legend that it stops on May 1st isn’t true.

In the last many weeks ….  Della slipped in the tub and visited the emergency room (we’re more hurt than she was), Josh rejoined the world of independent production / design and Ginger has accepted a 3rd grade teaching position for next year.

What we’re rolling on these days …

• Della singing ‘We all a yellow submarine’ and dancing around the house to De La and Chic.  We went to a Mayday celebration and there were kids singing Beatles songs.  Hooked.
• Than Brothers Pho on Mondays
• Mount Kimbie EP, worthy
• Burial unreleased tracks on BBC radio
• The new Penguin Exhibit at the Woodland park Zoo.  Really impressive, modern (aka. not a scary concrete box) exhibit.  They even have a current and waves that crash.  Today we saw them wrestling fish away from the gulls.
• Andrew Luck & Kreeps remix of Sleepy Eyes of Death (crazy good)
• Episodes of Lost & We Can Be Heroes.

Ginger and I are contemplating a quick vacation somewhere.  Whether that’s on an airplane or to the coast around here … not sure.

xo. J

No Comply Ollie Kickflip.

We spent the morning skateboarding.  I think we need to tighten up the trucks though.

As of 2/25/09 Della does not have a cast.  Ask her where it is?  ‘Its in Eddie’s Garbage’.

We went in ten days earlier to get it off and found that the break hadn’t healed enough.   We could have taken her home, but we (g, j, eddie the cast guy and an orthopedic  doctor) all agreed you can’t stop a 2 year old from having a party.  So after the new xrays we headed back to the casting room for a new cast.

‘Hey Dell, how about a pink cast this time?’ …  ‘No pink, no blue, no cast, no’.  She really knew what was up and didn’t want it.

Fast forward and we’re taking new xrays and everything seems good to go.  Dell wasn’t psyched on the cast saw (at all) and was pretty tense as the cast was cut off.  Across from us, a little 4 year old with a broken elbow got incredibly quiet and serious.  Hopefully he made it through his casting ok.

Della was a really good kid while she had the cast on.  By the end she was running in it (yes, they said that’s ok).  I can’t say we’d be doing the same.

The slide looked choice.  It was new, steep and had this REI ‘climb me’ look going for it (the new trend in kids playtoys at the park).  Because the slide was too steep, I rode down with her like I have a million times. At the bottom of the slide she erupted in tears.  At the time we thought it was fear, but quickly noticed she wouldn’t walk on her leg.  After heading home, many calls to a consulting nurse …. we’re going to roll with the idea that it’s a bad sprain.  Keep her off it, ice it, wrap it and let her watch the Muppet show nonstop.

Sunday came and she still wasn’t walking at all.  In the wild, toddlers never stop moving … ever.  So this was pretty strange.  After a 5 hour visit to the doctor on a holiday the Xray showed that Della had a Spiral fracture of her right tibia (the shin).  Toddler bones are a little different than adult bones, they bend.  So on that ride down the slide Della probably caught  her foot on the side and twisted her ankle which made the tibia break.  The break is pretty clean, she didn’t walk on it at all.  So recovery time will be about a month or so.  She already picked the hot pink cast … it’s being put on Thursday.

Guilt.  Can’t avoid parental guilt.  Especially when there’s no one really to blame.  I’m going to call the school up and let them know the new REI style slide probably should have a warning about going down doubles.  In the meantime, give D your best thoughts!  I’m going to bet she’ll start getting stir crfazy pretty soon.

A bit of a welcome surprise arrived at the end of the week.  Snow, and lots of it.  We’re thinking it might be the most snow we’ve seen stick around since the mid 90’s.  For you east coasters and midwest types … yes, we know that you have seen it before.  But!  Our city has a bad habit of not having much gear to get rid of the snow.  So what happens?  Bomb those hills.  Yes that’s right, days and days of unsalted and completely packed roads for sledding.

Della digs the snow for sure. We’re having some xmas moments over here with hot chocolate, christmas music and falling snow.  She’s all over it.  I (J) made the poor decision to sled down a steep hill with Dell. When we hit the bottom of the hill a huge burst of powder went into her eyes.  For 2 days it was ‘No sled, snow will get in my eyes’ … Then she’d run away.

A crazy storm came in last night with another 7″s of snow.  For our new round of snow outside, Della was way more game for sledding.  We got our friends Guerren and Kat over here for the nice 3 block drop of roads.  Everything was roped off with caution tape so the cars didn’t come through.

There’s apparently more coming tonight.  As long as the power doesn’t go out, we’re psyched.