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9/9/08

Back to school

First grade is officially underway. Here's O on day one sans back-pack but w/ some wicked argyles. (Of note: 96% humidity or not, no shorts to school we found out, surely for the same reason orange shirts are banned.)

So far, there hasn't been a flood of reports coming back but we do know that O lost the baby tooth that was in front of the adult tooth coming in on the bottom. And when I say lost, I mean, it came out at school and he couldn't find it. We believe that it did not end up in his GI tract. Since the tooth fairy's visit was much anticipated, Mom came up with the brilliant plan to have O draw a picture of the tooth and put it under his pillow. This picture, which featured a tooth shaped much like Connecticut colored gray with an eye as backdrop ("I'm looking at it"), was inscribed with the following: "Dear Tooth Fairy: please bring me a present even though I left my tooth in the cafeteria. Love, Owen." And in case anyone questions whether O intended to color it gray, he labeled it 'kitten gray.'

5 comments:

Don said...

What?? No Shorts??? If he has your genetic aversion to pants, I think we may have a good lawsuit on our hands.

Cocameister said...

Don,

Now that oil has come down to $100 a barrel, I want to see if you still think it had to do with Bush's announcement to drill off-shore.

Please note that the major reasons oil has plummeted are the following:
1. The marked rise in the US dollar
2. The increasing realization that the entire world economy is slower (less demand)

Oil, and all commodities move inversely proportional to the US dollar. Please look at the charts of any steel stock (e.g., X), coal (e.g., ACI), gold (e.g., AUY, FCX) and you will see the same exact patterns (massive price declines, opposite the movement of the dollar).

Will, sorry to use your cute Owen piece to write this, but I cannot stand the misconception to continue.

Don said...

Haha. Way to hijack Will's board. No, I don't think it has anything to do with Bush's announcement. What I said and what I always said was the brief sell-ff that occurred right after his speech was triggered by that speech. It may have happened the next day. It may have happened a week later. But he triggered that sell-off that day. Period.

Will said...

Coca - you're hilarious.

Don - turns out O is going through a modesty phase so he would probably not play along in court. We'll have to wait til his teens.

julie said...

Yo, everyone. Owen is CUTE and it is his FIRST DAY of FIRST GRADE. Let's not forget *that* important point.