Fun Dip

Such is the joy of parenthood:  teaching your child how to properly use Fun Dip.  Madison got a LOT of this candy for Valentine's Day, so tonight during movie night, we had a lot of fun dip in place of the usual popcorn.  It had been an instant hit.  Madison was leaning towards crunching on that tasty fun dipstick right away, but Daddy had to show her the proper way:

1.  Lick the stick.
2.  Put it in the package and get it covered with that colored sugary stuff.
3.  Repeat.

Daddy wasn't necessarily wanting to eat any fun dip, but when faced with the daunting task of getting rid of all this candy, he did his part.  The two of us sat there on the couch, dipping like rednecks, while we watched "The Lion King."

The reason for the movie was this:  Daddy had to write one more message for the upcoming Pridelands series.  We've written a few messages from this movie, but can you believe we found another one?  Yep, that just happened.  Anyway, just for the theme of it, this week we'll be watching the other Lion King movies, the second Madagascar movie, and maybe even that obscure one, "The Wild," where William Shatner plays some sort of deranged wildebeest.

Today was an epic dentist day for Daddy and Mommy.  Mommy had quite a bit of work done, and basically spent an amount of money comparable to buying a couple Ford Pintos.  Daddy had some work done too - the Dentist said he could do it without novocaine, and it was presented to him in such a way that it was optional to do the pain killer, but it probably wasn't necessary.  Suddenly, my manliness was challenged at the dentist's office.  So he got out the drill, and did all the work on a small cavity - without any novocaine.  Oh yes, I'm a real man now.  There was only one part where I felt that painful zing, and it was over pretty quickly after that.  Mommy, on the other hand, was undergoing much, much more.  In fact, she was there for two hours, while Daddy was sitting in the waiting room, reading a novel.

When Madison got home, we went straight to the piano for a bit, and then another fish dinner from Mommy.  Since our recent physicals, we've been doing a bit more fish.  Today, we had dinner from someone you can trust:  the Gorton's Fisherman.

After that, Madison and Daddy were getting ready for National Platypus Day, which is this upcoming Saturday.  We downloaded a "how to" on drawing Perry the Platypus, and sat down at the kitchen table for a while, attempting to draw him.  It was a little more difficult than the usual drawings we attempt, but we stuck through it and Madison did a pretty decent job!  We'll probably share that image on Saturday, on National Platypus Day itself.

Unrelated, but today at school was another "hat day."  You should have seen Madison in her big red hat today.  She needed it though:  the weather has been cold outside!  Brrrr!