Love this movie.  Now it’s snug on the shelf at home (after having seen it twice… so far).

Now back to grading for me!

Nov. 9, 1989:  20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov. 10, 1969:  40th Anniversary of Sesame Street

November 11, 1918: 91st Anniversary of WWWI Armistice (Veterans Day in the US) – and, oh good God, I am thinking of this a lot, after what happened in Fort Hood, Texas.  May God bless them and keep them.  Amen.

Start paying down that personal debt, ’cause y’all’s federal payroll and/or income taxes are about to shoot way up.

All I can say is this: I know plenty of my students who need this to happen, so I’m still on the fence on whether to hate it or appreciate it.  (Notice I didn’t say “like it”.)

::whew::

Here’s a photo of Daniel, just one-month old, wearing his ghost hat for Halloween back in 2007:

Here is a photo of Daniel, just a month past his first birthday, dressed as a penguin for Halloween last year:

In contrast, here’s Daniel, just a month past his second birthday, dressed as Yoda for Halloween last week:

Growing and growing and growing!

Daniel was Yoda for Halloween — pictures forthcoming once I have the time to adjust the file size and such — and I was impressed that he didn’t mess with the Yoda ears/headpiece/hat-thingy while trick-or-treating with his older cousin around my parents’ neighborhood.  During the wonderful lunchtime Halloween party hosted by friends in Celina, Texas, Daniel kept pulling off the Yoda hat whenever I would put it on his head.

What everybody noticed was just how big Daniel was getting — taller, slimmer — in his transformation from a toddler to a very young preschooler.   Last year’s Halloween picture (when Daniel was in his penguin costume) is very different from this year’s Halloween picture.  Last year, the nimbus of babyhood was very much still around him.  This year, it’s gone, replaced by a funny, fun-loving, curious little boy.

Yes — I’ll get that photo up… after I catch up on grading!  YIKES.