Memorial Day Hike

Tiger Mountain. There are more trees up there then you can shake a stick at, and there's no shortage of shaking sticks either. In fact, you'll probably need two shaking sticks and use both hands for the amount of stick shaking required to adequately 'shake stick' at the trees on Tiger Mountain. I think we got pretty comprehensive coverage with Mommy, Daddy, and Virg shaking sticks, but, just like the Louvre in Paris, you can't get to all of it in one day.

So many trees, so little time.

Virg - The duck hunter

Crikey! Be very still. It's hard to see from this distance, but just over Virg's shoulder is a wild mother duck with duckling. Ain't she a beaut! Mommy says duckling are the cuties baby animal in the universe (other then Virg). I'm not a nature expert, but I think wild ducks have been known to grab grown men at the waters edge and drag them to a watery doom clutched in their ferocious beaks. Blimey! That can't be good. Let's poke them with a stick!

Look at that gorgeous Sheila with her ankle biters in the billabong!

Licence to crawl

Guess who's mobile? That's right, and now Virg is too. He started crawling yesterday in an effort to get closer to Dalton dog. Now he's crawling all over the place finding toys and non-toys galore. I know what your saying, "Oh great! Now the Daddy is going to put Virg on the bed and say to the Mommy 'Well, I better take the garbage out.' And walk away thinking the Mommy has Virg. And the Mommy, just before picking up Virg, bends down to pick up a copy of 'Middlemarch' that she's been reading to Virg to get him to go to sleep. And while both parents have their eyes off Virg, he crawls off the bed and dives head first onto the floor. Then the Mommy and Daddy rush Virg to the urgent care at 9:15 PM to make sure they didn't give Virg a concussion." Well, shut up! THAT didn't happen. The book was 'Anne of Green Gables'.

I see you Dalton!

Your days of laying just out of reach are over!

Rub A Dub Dub - It's Virg in the tub.

They say cleanliness is next to Godliness. I looked it up and that's actually not true. Go-cart and gofers are next to Godliness in the dictionary I have. Virg likes bath time, especially now that he has his pirate rubber ducky. There used to be other rubber ducks, but one by one they disappeared without any explication. Strange stuff.

Cheeky monkey! Where you trying to look at my bum?

A boy and his dog

Virg has been sick this past week. He even had a temperature up to 104 on Tuesday night. In addition to the temperature he's also teething and has a runny nose. All in all, this has probably been the hardest week of his life. But he's on medication now and is starting to come out of it. The hardest for the Mommy and Daddy was not seeing Virg smile or laugh. But on Wednesday night, Dalton was able to get Virg to relax and smile and giggle for a little while.

Here we see Dalton trying to give Daddy a few pointers.

Happy Mothers Day!

This goes out to all the mothers out there, and I think you know who you are. But mostly, this goes out to the mother of SpiderVirg (SpiderMom), Chico Froggy (Momma Sita), Virg the Knife (Momma Calzone), Virg-a-saurus (Mrs. Ichthyosaur), Cutius-maximus (Octavianus Mommyus Augustus the IV) and of course little old Virg (Super Mommy).

My Mommy has that 'je ne sais quoi'.

Ah, Je t'aime!

The Amazing SpiderVirg

Look! On the wall! It's a baby! It's a spider!

It's SpiderVirg!!!

SpiderVirg, SpiderVirg
Does whatever a SpiderVirg does
Can he swing from a thread?
No, he can't. Mom says it's dangerous.
Hey there! There goes the SpiderVirg

Is he strong? Listen bud
He's got radioactive blood
Actually, that's not good
We should probably see a doctor about that
LookOut! He's got radioactive blood

In the chill of night
We turn up the heat
And don't flush the toilet
You might wake him up

SpiderVirg, SpiderVirg
Friendly neighborhood SpiderVig
Is he part spider and part baby
No he's not, that's geneticlly impossible
What the duce! I'm singing 'bout SpiderVirg

Verse: Em Am Em B7 Em
Bridge: D7 G B7 G D7 G C6 B7