{"id":5266,"date":"2009-09-29T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=5266"},"modified":"2009-09-29T22:47:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:47:20","slug":"back-to-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/back-to-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to New Orleans."},"content":{"rendered":"

Once you open a loaf of bread in New Orleans, you have approximately 15 minutes to devour it completely before the humidity sucks out all the soft goodness and turns it into a wheat rock.\u00c2\u00a0 What a loss of good bread.\u00c2\u00a0 Our solution?\u00c2\u00a0 Throw it into the freezer at minute 14 — just in the nick of time — and save it for the animals in the park.<\/p>\n

Like this guy, who I think just heard us tell Kate not to eat the moldy bread because it was for the squirrels.<\/p>\n

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Today’s high was 81.\u00c2\u00a0 In September, a high of 81 means it was an absolutely perfect fall day.<\/p>\n

Way too beautiful to spend the afternoon inside.\u00c2\u00a0 So we picked the kids up from school and brought them straight to the park for a picnic.<\/p>\n

Is this squirrel sticking is tongue out at us?<\/p>\n

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If you’ve spent time in Audubon Park, you recognize these three.\u00c2\u00a0 They are the park social committee.\u00c2\u00a0 We like to think of them as Agnes, Edna, and Beatrice.\u00c2\u00a0 They squawk with British accents.<\/p>\n

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The wood ducks are back (my favorites).\u00c2\u00a0 Will referred to the swan that followed him around as “big guy,” as in, “I need more bread to feed the Big Guy.”<\/p>\n

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Will also played around with the Photovoice camera and asked if I could set it on a timed release “so that we can get some family pictures.”\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, Will.\u00c2\u00a0 He set the camera on the cooler and got to work.<\/p>\n

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He was very serious.\u00c2\u00a0 So serious that we had to capture the intensity.\u00c2\u00a0 For the record, Kate totally and completely listened to every darn word the kid said.<\/p>\n

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Paul and I are barely holding it together, just seconds away from exploding into hysterics.\u00c2\u00a0 The Kid is directing us to put our heads together.<\/p>\n

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See?\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn’t listening.\u00c2\u00a0 I was suppose to move closer.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, Will.<\/p>\n

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What unfortunately isn’t easily seen in this picture is the underside of Will’s cast.\u00c2\u00a0 He took a marker and wrote “DAD MOM KATE” in a line on the inside of the cast.\u00c2\u00a0 Underneath he wrote WILL, except that he made the W upside-down.\u00c2\u00a0 So really, he wrote “MILL”.\u00c2\u00a0 When he realized the mistake (“Will, who’s ‘Mill?'”\u00c2\u00a0 “What?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Mill.\u00c2\u00a0 M-I-L-L.\u00c2\u00a0 On your arm.”) he laughed like a loon and then simply wrote his name (complete with W) underneath.\u00c2\u00a0 DAD MOM KATE MILL WILL.<\/p>\n

If that doesn’t sum up the age of 5, I just can’t think of much more that can.\u00c2\u00a0 Awesomeness.<\/p>\n

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I humbly requested a photo of Kate and Will.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the only one where one of them isn’t lifting the other, picking a nose, or bent upside.\u00c2\u00a0 It also showed that I am the only photographer no one listens to.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that this was ever in doubt.<\/p>\n

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Happy fall day, New Orleans! So good to be home.<\/p>\n

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