Patty McPunchface

With St. Patrick's Day upon us, it's only fitting that we celebrate a Vinylmation wrestler here who goes by the name of Patty McPunchface.  His slogan is, "When life hands you lemons, punch life in the face."

I can't really add anything to that slogan, but I will say that he is the first of the Vinylmation wrestlers to be a known presence in our household.  He came out of the woodwork here because of the Irish holiday, a tiny little decoration that seems to have fascinated Madison so much that she wanted her own wrestler.  Indeed, the Vinylmation figures to her are all about wrestling presently, and she has no idea that this is just a drop in the ocean of all sorts of figures from Star Wars to Disney to Marvel to pretty much anything else that exists.  We're not sure what the fascination is ourselves, although I will say that there's an interesting story how we got Patty McPunchface in the house.

Let me just say that we got a whole lot of these, and we got them for free.  At first, we were going to take them to Goodwill, but then there was a second look at them and a third look at them.  Daddy thought they might be fun as a gag gift in the future or something like that.  We pulled one out, and Madison became fascinated with it - so much that when she finished her piano homework, Daddy got her a female wrestler named Lisa Leglock.  And now it's on:  Madison really likes these little things.  Which works out, because we literally have dozens of them in a box right now.

She might even put him in her diorama that she has to do this week.  Her assignment was to do a diorama of the Piedmont area, a shoebox that has wildlife and plants featured from the region.  Daddy went over to Michael's, a craft store, and got a black bear and a turkey, while Mommy crafted some cardinals and squirrels using clay - and a real tiny acorn.  The end result is something Madison did, putting all the pieces together, including the tree backdrop that Daddy printed.  She did it all at school, so we'll have to wait and see how it turns out.  But she seems pretty positive about it, and it seemed fun to do as well.

Tonight was ballet for Madison, and church for Daddy.  Ballet is sort of low key, as many of the kids and staff are preparing for the upcoming ballet based on "Beauty and the Beast."  Church tonight was nice, as we talked about walking sticks - or staffs.  You can imagine there was some talk about Moses in the wilderness, and it all seemed to work out really well.

Okay, as for now it's time for bed.  Or, with the big day tomorrow, a bit of leprechaun mischief!