skylarks, suspicions, and other brief commentary

A sign of the times: I got an email in my junk mail box today from Travelocity. The big sell? Fares Are Just $407+ from Denver to Baton Rouge. Book It Today! Oh, really? JUST 407+? Thanks so much, Travelocity.

I made Aidan this CD with all these children's songs on them to listen to in his room. One of the songs is "Alouette". If you didn't know already, it's a song basically about plucking all the feathers out of a skylark. Good times. Since I heard that song, I've not been able to get it out of my brain. "Et le nez, et la tete, alouette..." Wouldn't be so bad except I only know a few of the words and I end up making up the rest. "Et la poo... Et la doo..."

A sign I'm getting old: I took Aidan to the dentist for two fillings the other day and saw a commercial for one of those horrible KidzBop CDs, where they take already artistically lacking songs and then destroy them further by allowing a bunch of ten year olds to shout the lyrics over mediocre covers of the music. As if that wasn't terrible enough, how old did I feel when I literally had not even heard of most of the songs. Like, I had heard that crappy Fergie song "Clumsy", and one of the other songs was familiar in title and tune, but I literally had never even heard of any of the others.

In case you haven't heard, they "exonerated" JonBenet's parents this week. Why, thanks so much, Boulder police. Never mind the fact that the people have lived under the "they killed their daughter" suspicions for twelve years, and that the mom is actually dead now and can't reap the "I told you so" satisfaction. I'd be SO pissed if I were the dad. Of course, I think he's actually dating the mom of that Aruba-MIA girl Natalee Holloway now, so that's weird anyway.

Only five days till our Chicago trip! I can't wait, but I'm worried about the little chonk. He's much more partial to us than Aidan was at that age. I'm worried he won't eat or sleep much the entire time we're gone. His three new teeth finally broke through, so that's better. Traveling without them makes me nervous. Tony could go the entire week and trust that they're fine and never hear about what they're doing, and I would enjoy a live feed from a webcam that I could check out constantly to see what they're wearing, eating, doing... The difference between moms and dads I guess.