Third time's the charm

We can proudly confess that, as of today, the O'Neal family has attended church three Sundays in a row. Daddy claims it's his first trifecta in twenty years and suggests that he only went for the free air conditioning. It is, after all, our second straight day of heat indices reaching the 100-degrees. But the highlight of our churchgoing isn't the end to Daddy's amoral sabbatical. It was that Isaac and Jacob went to the play room for the entire service, leaving the big kids to snuggle in their pew alone. When offered an opportunity to join Mommy and Daddy in the sanctuary, both of our little heathens chose to stay playing. The playroom attendant, a recent high-school graduate, made the mistake of letting Isaac rope her into reading him a dinosaur book. "Professor Isaac" spent the entire time correcting her pronunciation of the different species and providing commentary not available in book designed for toddlers. She enjoyed telling us how brilliant our big man is.

After we got home from church, the original plan was to go soak in the pool until fully pruned. But Daddy came up with the most wonderful suggestion; go to the movies. Daddy and the boys have been ooh-ing and ahh-ing over previews to the new movie Kung-Fu Panda and it was our luck that there were several showings for those looking to escape a hot Sunday afternoon. It's a continuation of the air-conditioning philosophy, though a bit more expensive.

Daddy, in traditional form, piled us high and deep with soda and popcorn. The highlight for Jake was this bench near the concession stand. "Wall-E! Eve!!!"



This was Isaac's second movie theater adventure -- the first being Ratatouille -- and Jake's first feature film on the big screen. Although Ike was completely absorbed, Jake spent half of the moving hanging out in the aisle or threatening to poop and then actually doing so. Not bad for a first timer.