The Filthy Care Bear

 PJ hauls this filthy, disgusting thing wherever we go (he will even sit it at the table to eat, and will roleplay with it whenever he is cooking, be it at home or even when a restaurant lets him "help" cooking). According to wikipedia this is Bedtime Bear, I had to look it up because I am approaching my limit to remember trivia about kid stuff that didn't apply when *I* was a kid, most of that limit was reached learning, against my will, every possible thing you could know about the Teletubbies.

We have already tried to replace this bear with a newer (although smaller) version, and he refuses to let it go even if the new one fits in his bag (read: purse) and it talks. We are going to try to see if it will survive one more trip through the machine, but I don't even want to predict what is going to happen if the machine mangles it in any way.

"Not afraid of dogs" strikes again

PJ alternating between reading and reciting "Not Afraid of Dogs" while watching himself on a mirror and trying to keep track of whatever is on the TV.

The sleep of the just ...

This is the same guy that would spend hours screaming that he is not tired at all, no sir:

Single bubble

 No idea why he named it that way.

The Linguini Hat

PJ's favorite restaurant changed their design for their kiddie chef hats. They are using now a model that looks exactly like Linguini's from Ratatouille. He liked it so much that we found where the restaurant buys theirs in bulk and ordered two dozen (under $20 including shipping for two dozen hats)

"Not Afraid of Dogs"

This is PJ's current obsession, "Not Afraid of Dogs" by Susanna Pitzer.

Face Movie

This was built with the new Face Movie feature in Picasa 3. The song is "When I Grow Up" by Garbage. Youtube automagically noticed the song and added links to buy it at both iTunes and Amazon, plus an email explaining why they did it and if I wanted to contest that the song was not identified correctly.

The video itself has about 200 photos that I picked at random, Picasa 3 did all of the work. All I had to do was select the photos, ask for a video based on the faces that it recognized, then added the song as an MP3. The whole thing took maybe 10 minutes.

Where's my camera?

A common theme is whenever I buy a new camera PJ immediately tries to take over it. I fell for it a couple times, which cost me a Sony DSC-TX1 and a Sony DSC-W80. Since he obviously likes to take pictures, we got him kiddie-proofed cameras, the problem with these is that they lack a very basic feature: they don't look like the kinds of cameras that I use. Mine are usually black and with shiny chrome accents, while kiddie cameras are plastic and in loud colors.

When he says "say goodbye" he is doing the usual scripted speech thing that is so common in children with autism.

Not Afraid of Dogs (Susanna Pitzer, Larry Day)

Cover of Not Afraid of Dogs

PJ's new obsession is Not Afraid of Dogs, a book that somehow he already memorized cover to cover without us having owned it yet.

*His* copy just arrived here but he is still asleep, hopefully I'll be able to get a good video out of this one. Amazon somehow managed to deliver it a day ahead of the promised date, which is a win. 

I don't know how long this book in particular is going to last, it has a paper jacket and I would have felt better about it if it had a printed cover in some thick material (like that filthy copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar that he hauls all over the place).

UPDATE: the book did have a hard cover with the same print as the jacket. The jacket disappeared seconds after PJ took possession of the book, but at least it still has a nice cover. "Nice" being defined as "you can wipe food off it without ruining it."