The House of Bull: April 2008

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Mall Tonight

Tonight at the mall two things were observed.

1) A group of local guys were looking at what movies were playing at the cinema. They were wanting to see Iron Man, but it didn't get over until 1am. This is the conversation that followed. Note that all of this was in Arab-accented English, except for the profanities. They, believe it or not, were in perfect American English.

Local Arab Teenage Guy #1: Oh man, Oh man, Oh $#@&! Oh $#@&!
Local Arab Teenage Guy #2: What?!?
LATG #1: If we see that I won't get home til after 1!
LATG #2: Man, why do you have to be "curfew man"
LATG #1: I AM NOT A CAREFUL MAN!!!
LATG #2: No, "curfew" dude, "CUR-FEW"
LATG #1 (looking & feeling slightly stupid): oh.

2) Apparently style has gone to the toilet. Apparently, all the guys go into the barber shop and ask for the same haircut.
"yes, hello, I want to look like a dweeb. Can you do that?"
And the girls, all I got to say is, "Oh look, a quilt with tights under it!"
(that is not a reference to the black abayas they wear, it was an actual reference to the "whatever" that is that they are trying to wear and pass off as fashionable)

Just FYI from a man who only owns two pairs of pants and around 6 shirts that are all pretty much the same color.

Your Turn

"Okay, I'm done. Why don't you take the baby for a few days."
-B-

Monday, April 28, 2008

Singing

Noah's Singing
Noah sings all the time!! "non!" "non!" That's what he says for "song." We sing, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Patty Cake, If Your Happy and some others, but lately Noah has gotten into this "impromptu" singing. You know, in the store, the car, or any public, quiet place will do really. So Noah sings at the top of his lungs whatever grunts, mumbles, or jibberish comes to mind. Quiet embarrassing at times, really annoying at times, but all around really, really funny.

My Singing
I've started playing guitar at a local Arab fellowship here. The other night we were doing a song that required me to use some strange chords. After practicing all week, I was ready. Half way through the song and due to my practicing all day, my hand gives out and cramps up, so I had to quit playing until the next song......how embarrassing. :( Whitey just can't hang with the Arabs. Sad day.

Zoei's Singing
This is Zoei, I don't have a clue who she is. Just thought you would enjoy it.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Noah-isms from the week

Sorry about the lack of posting. No excuses really, just laziness, I guess.

Here is, off the top of my head, things Noah has done this week that has made us laugh or cry depending on how long that day was.

Pantry Dryer
We walked into the kitchen the other day. All of the canned goods were stacked neatly in the dryer.

Pop Tarts
It was 9pm and all was quiet. I was in the office working, B was washing dishes, Noah was...wait a minute, where is Noah? We found Noah in the living room with blueberry filling smeared all over his very, very happy, smiley face. He had ganked a box of unopened Pop Tarts from the cabinet and had managed to rip the box open and then rip open the package and had polished off one of the pop tarts and was half way through the other one before we caught him.

Mommom! Mommom!
That is B's name. not Momma, but Mommom. We here it from the kitchen this time and go running in. Noah has climbed up the dryer and all we see is two little kicking legs sticking out of the washing machine.

Baby Bible
After lunch we read a Bible story together and pray. Noah loves his Read-to-Me Bible for Kids. He really loves the picture of baby Jesus, so we spend half the time reading and the other half flipping back to the picture of baby Jesus, so Noah will be quiet and let us finish. This is a sample,
Me: Peter and John were..
Noah: BABY?
Me: yes, in a minute..."going to the temp...
BABY!?!
yes, hold on.
BABY! BABY! BABY!!
Okay.....you win.
*Peter and John never got into the temple that day. They had to wait till we saw baby Jesus first.

Jesus Loves Me
Every night we pray together as a family and sing "Jesus loves me." One night this week, it went like this.
B: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells...."
Noah: BIBLE??
B: "Yes, the Bible tells us that Jesus loves us...., Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible te..."
BIBLE??
B: Yes, the Bible tells...
BIBLE!!
(the rest of the song was finished with Noah screaming Bible! Bible!)

Baby Nathanael
"Noah, where is baby Nathanael?" Noah will then run and pat or kiss B's tummy. Yeah, "awwww, how sweet," right? But today right after doing that, he found Baby Nathanael's stash of stuff animals hidden in a drawer. They are no longer Baby Nathanael's stuffed animals. They are Noah's stuffed animals.

And there's our week in recap. Hope it made you smile.