Weekend highlights

This year we're spending Thanksgiving here in LA, so we decided to visit my family this weekend. This, of course, included a lot of quality time with my 16-month-old nephew Jayden. Even though he's recovering from an ear infection, he was in very jolly spirits and we had fun playing together.

He tried to ride his horse...backward.


He held still long enough for me to capture his beautiful blue eyes.


And then we made him a bed of giant stuffed animals, where after much tossing and turning he finally napped.


Last night Brent and I saw Happy Feet. Brent was hesitant until he read a few glowing reviews. Plus he probably wanted to stop me from pointing to every Happy Feet billboard in LA, noting, "I want to see that!" All I knew about the movie was that it featured cartoon penguins. And isn't that enough? It's been a while since we've seen a kid's flick. We used to enjoy seeing the computer-animated films when it was basically just Pixar. They were rare and usually quite interesting. (Monsters, Shrek, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, etc.) Now they seem to churn out so many of them and frankly most of them are just not that appealing. We both thought Happy Feet was very cute and well-done, though. And Robin Williams wasn't uber-annoying!

"We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." - Anon.