Today is Corinne’s first birthday. On Saturday we had a little family celebration at my parents’ house, and below are a couple of pictures of the obligatory cake demolition. Corinne got some gifts, and Donovan very generously offered to “help” her open them.
There are pictures here of Corinne when she was born.
In other news, Donovan and Corinne both visited the doctor a week or so ago and both were weighed. Donovan weighed 30 lbs 8 oz. Corinne weighed 22 lbs 13 oz. I give it six months before Corinne can flatten Donovan.
Corinne has at least six teeth now. Four top and center, and two bottom and center. We have just run out of formula so, at last, she will be making the transition to real milk. Corinne is not walking yet but she crawls very fast, stands up and cruises around furniture and anywhere else where she has handholds, and if I hold her hands and walk with her she will walk a long way, and is getting noticeably better at that. Since she is one now and weighs enough in theory we can turn her car seat around forward facing. We probably need to because her feet now are touching the minivan’s bucket seat. Corinne is a great eater – she eats tons of pickup foods including green veggies such as sliced asparagus, she eats chicken, cheerios, cut up fruit, even cut up pizza. And she will angrily yammer for a drink of anything she sees any of us drinking. She got a taste of Mountain Dew from Uncle Shawn at the circus a week or so ago, and had a death grip on the cup as she drank using the straw!
A couple of Monday Nights ago, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith put up 149 reception yards and a touchdown. He did this despite tossing his cookies repeatedly on the sideline during the first half, apparently suffering from stomach flu.
Inspired by this, I set out to find as many euphemisms for barfing as I could. I was a little surprised that I came up with the first fifteen or so almost as fast as I could type them.
But I was a lot more surprised about how many more I found on the internet.
So, for your pre-Thanksgiving feast reading pleasure, I present the following list of my own plus a very small sampling of all the ones I found out in cyberspace. Study them carefully.
Upchuck
Barf
Ralph
Vomit
Puke
Toss Cookies
Lose Lunch
Boot
Yark
Spew
Yak
Trying on the Porcelain Turbin
Driving the Porcelain Bus
Talking on the Porcelain Telephone
Heave
Heave Ho
Hurl
Regurgitate
Blow Chunks
Chuck
The Technicolour Yawn
Reversal of Fortune
Shout Europe at the sink
Call Ralph On Big White Phone
Chunder
Thunder Chunder
disgorge
regorge
retch
honk
purge
after dinner mints
aerial bile manoeuvre
all things re-considered
ballistic breakfast
blarf
blue-cheese breath
boycott
bulk shipment
cast your vote
choom
chortle
chowder chunder
chunky custard
clam chowder revisited
clean house
conduct an internal audit
connect the carrots
consequence of the Barf-o-Matic roller coaster
cook for the cafeteria
cook up a pavement pizza
core dump
corporate downsizing
dance with buckets
dash the pebbles
death moan
defer
deja food
deja spew
egestation
eject
eruct
excrete
exenterate
expectorate
fetch
fill the bilge
fling floor pie
flowage
fondue you
fratboy goulash
gack
galp
gargle gravy
gudge
guff
gulch
gurp
gut paint
hoist chow
horf
hork the pork
issue a decree
Jersey yodel, the
jump shot
lurch
negative chug
offload
pitch
quake your gizzard
reboot
rebut
refund
return to sender
rosco
slabber
spackle
special delivery
spit chips
splash your hash
splooge
stomach gravy
tonsil toss
total recall
ug
unpack
work the abs
yog
york
yorp
Check out this Onion article:
Cardinals Apologize For Winning World Series
This made me chuckle. It’s a very clever spoof/exaggeration of how grumbly the national media was about this year’s World Series and the champion Cardinals.
