Fred Zing! Catapult Spoon

ZING! launch your lunch Everyone knows you shouldn’t play with your food. But hey - sometimes you have to defend your dinner! Now there’s a new weapon in your homeland security arsenal - load up a particularly mushy pea or corn niblet, aim, pull back the spring-loaded handle, and watch your food take flight. ZING! It’s WAY more fun than a war of words.

Condolences to the Steven Curtis Chapman family… if this story doesn’t make you slow down and take some time to enjoy the fleeting moments in life that we so often take for granted, I don’t know what will.

Musician Steven Curtis Chapman’s daughter killed in accident

“I was trying to give my little girls a bath and rushing and hurrying through it,” Chapman told The Press in an interview last fall. “And I got convicted over how much I rush through moments trying to get to the next one, and God telling me to stop and take the moments as he gives then, and see what he’s trying to teach me.”

A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you.

Better to be safe than………………..Punch a 5th grader
Strike while the …………………….Bug is close
It’s always darkest before…………… Daylight Savings Time
Never underestimate the power of……….Termites
You can lead a horse to water but……..how?
Don’t bite the hand that…………….. looks dirty
No news is…………………………..impossible
A miss is as good as a……………….Mr.
You can’t teach an old dog new…………math
If you lie down with dogs, you’ll………stink in the morning
Love all, trust……………………..me
The pen is mightier than the…………..pigs
An idle mind is……………………..The best way to relax
Where there’s smoke there’s……………pollution
Happy the bride who…………………..gets all the presents
A penny saved is……………………..not much
Two’s company, three’s………………..the Musketeers
Don’t put off till tomorrow what……….you put on to go to bed
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and…….you have to blow your nose.
None are so blind as………………….Stevie Wonder
Children should be seen and not………..spanked or grounded
If at first you don’t succeed………….get new batteries
You get out of something what you………see pictured on the box
When the blind leadeth the blind……….get out of the way

And the favorite:

Better late than…………………….pregnant.

*sigh*

First Ethan falls in love with soccer… and now Gabe brings home this from Kindergarten…

I’d be in big trouble when October rolls around… (found via Kottke)

“Toy Story” films headed back to theaters in 3-D

The Walt Disney Studios plans to debut digital 3-D versions of Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.”

“Toy Story” is slated to open October 2, 2009, followed by “Toy Story 2″ on February 12, 2010. Both films would be released in advance of Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” which is being produced as a 3-D motion picture and is slated to open June 18, 2010. Veteran Pixar filmmaker Lee Unkrich (co-director of “Toy Story 2″) is directing the third installment.

As exciting as it was to read that in converting “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2″, the technical team is retrieving all of the original digital elements and rebuilding them in 3-D, I have to say, I’m kinda with Kottke on this one… 3-D has never done anything special for me. Of course, that won’t stop me from taking the entire family to see the third installment when it opens!

I just read a great interview with VeggieTales Founder Phil Vischer who wrote The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything–A VeggieTales Movie ( directed by Mike Nawrocki). Pirates opened Jan. 11, and despite Gabe’s begging and pleading, I haven’t taken him to see it yet. Not because I don’t want to! I love Bob, Larry and the gang. Gabe was given The Wonderful Wizard of Ha’s DVD for Christmas and we all had a few good laughs watching it.

Phil mentioned a topic that’s been discussed on Christopher Hopper’s site before. The “Christian” label. When he was asked “So in your mind, is there such a thing as a Christian business?” he replied…

“Business with Christian ownership, Christian values, Christian goals . . . I think a Christian business needs further definition. We had the same discussion about Christian movies. Is it a movie made by Christians? For Christians? Or a movie that has accepted Jesus as its Savior and is going to heaven when it dies?”

I think I’m going to get a copy of his book. Sounds like a good read.

At least that’s what I’m telling myself.

Today after lunch, I’m in the bathroom and notice the thin spot on the top of my head is only getting more and more visible. This really angered me.. until my 4 year old son Gabe, stood next to me and said.

“You’re going bald daddy? You need a lightsaber.”

Maybe I’ll have to try the razor after all.

Today is “crazy hair day” at school.

Some kids were happy, and some were not.