Making a Mess of the US!

Reid, Sania and I have been hanging out in the basement lately. It's a playroom, and it's nice to burn some energy down there, toasty and warm while we're having a cold snap, and be able to walk away from the mayhem without a care in the world.

Sania spends a third of her time putting on and taking off toddler sunglasses and yelling "me!" to nobody in particular and then trying to destroy whatever it is Reid has set his mind to doing. Reid mostly engages in role-play with various combinations of some French livestock toys we received from a friend in New York and cast members from Toy Story. It's funny to hear what Buzz Lightyear has to say to a giant horned Limousin cow.

Tonight, I put some punk rock on the stereo because Reid was wearing one of his favorite shirts, the inexplicable "Rock Legend!" shirt. Basically, lots of schools have outlawed shirts that promote a particular brand, icon, character or product. Reid can't really wear his limited selection of Toy Story shirts (2) or his one Spider-Man shirt to school for fear of, I don't know, inciting a riot. So the people who make shirts for kids like Children's Place, Old Navy and the like all sell a wide selection of shirts with generic themes in awesome fonts and featuring striking images. Reid has a shirt that says, "Cool as Ice." I don't even know what it is supposed to mean.

Anyhow, Rock Legend shirt was a natural match for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes punk rock covers of classic rock tunes, so we rocked out. Obviously.