Category: Elliot

Apr 07

The 50 books every child should read

The 50 books every child should read – News, Books – The Independent.

This is inspiring me to pick up a copy of “The Phantom Tollbooth” for Elliot.  I think my improvised “Monkey Vs. Robot” epics are running out of steam.

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Mar 05

A new boy

We found out Tuesday (ultrasound in Springfield) the new one is a boy!

We described how we found out to Elliot, and he composed this song:

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Feb 25

Still here …

Yes, I am!

Latest news:

  • Lex and I are pregnant (mostly Lex)
  • There have been loads of exciting gigs so far this year (and more to come – I’ll update that section shortly)
  • Elliot will soon be a big brother somewhere around the end of July (did I mention we’re pregnant?)
  • Some friends of ours, Kelli and Chris, just had their first kid – a baby boy and he is super, super cute!
  • Lex and I are going on a short vacation (just the two of us!) this March (a quick trip down to Florida’s gulf coast)
  • Elliot keeps singing the theme song to “The Neverending Story”, making me want to listen to more electro pop (I like the 12 in dance mix)
  • I’ve also lately become addicted to twitter (@mtrainor – follow me!). We’ll see how far that goes.
  • And although I am addicted to cigarettes, I’m on my third week without them. We’ll see how far *that* goes too. So far, so good. I can smell and taste things again! Whee!
  • On a sad note – my dad passed away in November (if I needed an excuse for not posting lately – that would be it). We were close – off and on. There’s a lot I could say about him, but not here. I’ll just say I’m really surprised how the loss has affected me (and my brothers). That’s not over. Thankfully, I have some good friends and family to sort me out.
  • Is this hard to read in bullet points?

So, a real full quarter year so far. Still smiling. Chat soon xo

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Sep 23

He’s a Pteranodon

The other night, after several stories and songs while putting E down to bed, I told him, “You have to close your eyes now and go to sleep”.

And he said, “I can’t go to sleep. I have a body no bigger than a turkey’s with a wingspan the size of a small plane”.

How can you argue with that?

(This is a direct quote from The Dinosaur Alphabet Book – except for the “I can’t go to sleep” part.)

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Sep 03

Secrets revealed

This should be great.  I’ve always wondered what color a Diplodocus is.  Elliot will be psyched.

Dinosaurs in colour

“It is a question that has baffled the greatest scientific minds – and those of the average seven-year-old: What colour were dinosaurs?” Andrew Johnson writes in The Independent on Sunday. “Now a dramatic breakthrough in fossil examination has sparked a race to discover an answer that may satisfy the scientific community as well as anxious crayon wielders. A research team at Yale University believe they have established a technique which can identify the colour of fossilized feathers and fur. Preliminary results suggest that the true colours of dinosaurs may soon be revealed. A team headed by Prof. Derek Briggs, director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, discovered that tiny, fossilized structures previously believed to be the remains of bacteria were in fact carbon deposits called melanosomes, which indicate the colour pattern of modern birds’ feathers.”

via Street fighting, Earth’s calmest spot, e-mail rudeness – The Globe and Mail.

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Aug 28

rabbit talks breed/brood

I am so happy to read the occasional blog post from The Rabbit.  Here’s a new one that makes me feel less like a crazy person.  Love her.

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Jul 22

Amazing Video Of Huge Aquarium

Wait for the video to load fully before viewing in full screen. Wow.

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

via Kottke.

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Jul 15

Home again

Here are a batch of pics from our trip to PEI and New Brunswick (along with some older ones of a Nova Scotia visit from this spring).

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Jun 24

Welcome To HotWheels.Com

Welcome To HotWheels.Com.

Elliot is going nuts talking about this toy.  I don’t know how he found out about it (probably from one of his cousins).  He calls it “Hose Hot Wheels”.

I don’t know if I can wait until his birthday before breaking down and getting this.  The nagging is constant.  But it looks cool, too.

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Jun 04

Pirates!

Here is some press for our Pirate show this Saturday at the theater in North Adams.  Nice that we got a little piece in the Times Union:

‘Pirates!’ to appeal to young Berkshire audiences

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