Seen and heard

“Dale, dale, dale, no perdas el tino,
porque si lo perdes, pierdes el camino.
Esta piñata es de muchas mañas, sólo contiene naranjas y cañas.”

Hit, hit, hit.
Don’t lose your aim,
Because if you lose, you lose the road.
This piñata is much manna, only contains oranges and sugar cane.

At my nephew’s second birthday party.


I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.

T-shirt, Burger King, Waco Tx.


We cracked some nuts.

My wife, after we took three kids to see the Nutcracker and survived relatively intact. May be a slight paraphrase due to exhaustion, and I’m not as technologically advanced as some bloggers to be able to record stuff while on the run.


They caught his tail, and then shot him with the guns!

My son, describing his favorite Nutcracker scene, when the toy soldiers catch the Rat King. Nobody was actually shot, btw, but the Rat King has now been detained as an “enemy combatant.”


Feliz Navidad!

We purchased a “Christmas Hits” CD which has this (my son’s favorite) among 40 other tunes.