I’ve been telling the girls star wars: We started with star wars, and we’re maybe halfway through empire strikes back. Kyra is luke, zoe is Han.
Kyra is maybe 10 minutes of story from realizing who Darth Vader is: Which will be a fun conversation. Kyra enjoys the story and this is her Darth Vader impression.
Zoe telling every one that she loves us. Watch it all the way to the end.
If you’re following along via twitter two things should be clear to you:
1. I really like Kyras crabs.
2. I am worried about the larger crab (Pinch Pinch or Shelly) bullying the smaller one (Pinch me or Fuzz Head or Climbing Dude).
A third thing: Kyra has inherited her fathers proclivity towards name overloading.
For the first week pinch pinch didn’t move at all. He would end up on the food in the morning or dug in deeper where he had been sitting but he was a very still crab. And the original Pinch me died (The crab he came home with). When we got the new pinch me he was hyper. He climbed everywhere (Name clue!) and went everywhere. He was also much much smaller than pinch pinch. Not a problem when pinch pinch is effectively furniture, but pinch pinch is a big crab. When he gets his legs under him and starts walking one of them is as thick as pinch me’s torso. (Watching crabs walk is awesome, their legs unfold out and they move like alien mecha. Their legs end in sharp points that crunch into the sand and they’re covered in articulated plating. Seriously cool to watch.). And when pinch pinch started (for no reason we can see) moving around a lot today he ended up walking over to pinch me and laying down next to him. Kind of on top of him. Pretty much blocking any of pinch me’s movement. And pinch me has been still all day.
So i was worried pinch me was in danger of some kind of crab violence (and more than a little curious to see it happen). So tonight when I cleaned their cage (kim and kyra are going to a play, I’m babysitting) I moved pinch pinch to the other side of the cage to give pinch me his space.
And pinch me stood right up and ran (again think of invid shock troops in zero gravity) directly to the other side of the cage and scooted as close as he could to pinch pinch. It was the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen a crab do.
So I’m pretty convinced they like each other.
Pinch Pinch (Shelly) the first day we got him home.
Move on.org shutters it’s 527. I’m dissapointed because I would love to see Move On attack McCain like crazy this cycle, since it appears Obama isn’t going to. And republicans are going to have a huge constellation of 527’s pointing out that Obama is going to sell us all to terrorists for gay marriges. It would be nice to have an effective counterbalance, and I love move on. They do great stuff and they are extremely active in their advocacy of grassroots liberal goals.
That being said this is yet another sign that Obama has more money than God right now. Still, better safe than sorry.
Kyra and zoe dancing while they wear their glow in the dark bracelets.
This picture was taken after I had asked Kyra to stay in the room for a minute to keep Zoe company while I was gone. When I returned, I found them both like this. Kyra had stopped playing to pick up her blanket and cover Zoe. She loves her tag and likes to hold on to it, so that meant leaning halfway on the couch to make sure she didn’t take covers away from Zoe. Kyra is a thoughtful girl and a great sister, but this is by far the greatest display of selflessness I’ve witnessed from Kyra.
