look at me still talking when there's science to do

it was a nice day, so we went to the park and had ice cream.

The park was really nice, and i got to test out the offroading capabilities of the wheelchair, and discovered that the park was more level and much nicer to drive around in than most of Seattle's residential neighborhoods' sidewalks. Chris and I were somewhat bumbling trying to figure out how to handle seaners on the playground equipment, and of course it turns out that seaners is better than both of us at finding his way around playground equipment. swings are a favorite but slides are an okay diversion. He went deep into Seanworld while swinging; i don't think i've ever seen him so happy playing by himself. now that i know how to get there we'll have to go more often.

icecream was delightful: i had balsamic strawberry and coffee, chris had coffee and chocolate. we got a kid-scoop of baby beet sorbet for seaners, who rejected it as he does all ice cream flavors (he had to have sorbet because dairy is an issue and we weren't sure that pomegranate curry sorbet would go over as well), but he enjoyed listening to the music playing in the shop (and we ate the baby beet sorbet, and it was absolutely amazing.)

next time i want to try and find the big chessboard at the park. and if it's warm there may be wading pool action. i wasn't kidding when i said that family outings don't happen around here; i don't remember when the last one was. this is probably a combination of my hermit nature and chris's tendency to work weekends, but it wasn't bad. the other parents did not bite me. i could go again at some point. (and i've found out that my usual reluctance to not go to parks because they are huge and exhausting is at least partly mitigated by the wheelchair. really most everywhere is easier with the wheelchair.) and the bouncy rubber stuff is much easier to drive on than sand would have been. (there aren't even sand play areas or places to just fool around in though, and that's kind of sad: that was one of the things that i liked about sand under the play structures. now there are the Designated Play Structures and manicured lawns. Oh, helicopter moms that fear nature. sad.)

then we went home, i fell asleep (normal response to being out under the daystar) and now there will be pizza. the end.

how are you?

Today we ALMOST went to the children's museum! we did actually meet tiggrrl and her sweet little sproglet, but we got horribly lost before that and the wheelchair for some reason didn't charge and AUGH. but we did get to have snacks together. and we're going to attempt the park next week (here's hoping.)

clickies:

All of these I think I've seen more than once on my flist; i just forget who.

Jennifer Mather, squid psychologist.

interview with terry pratchett about his alzheimer's and his best work.

This one is especially important to me because it's a HUGE pet peeve of mine: the founder of the antivaccine movement faked the autism/vaccine link. I know there are a few legitimate reasons for not vaccinating or for delaying vaccinating (egg allergies, bad reactions to previous vaccines, kids with immune system problems) but the majority of kids get more benefit than not. (not to mention that bloody woman (Jenny McCarthy i think her name is) that was on Oprah or whatever show it was claiming that she cured her son and blahblah about vaccines are so bad and they caused the kid's autism? she's a former playboy bunny. she does not have an ounce of medical training. and yet people are willing to take her word on this.)

(sorry. i just really hate the whole thing. hatehatehate. it's like giving children raw milk instead of pasturized. there's a reason kids used to die in the middle ages.)