Joe Mooney phoned.

You know you're getting old when you start telling lame Dad jokes.

We decided to spring for call display. The other day someone named Joe Mooney phoned, but didn't leave a message.

I started singing "Leave a message Mooney, moon, moon mooney" to the tune of Billy Idol's "Mony Mony".

It was hilarious and caused huge belly laughs.

There should be hundreds of people walking around our neighbourhood.

We usually go for a night time walk after dinner for a half hour or so. Most of the time we see all the same people - maybe 15 different couples or families at the most, plus a few strangers.

Our complex has hundreds of houses. I would think that at any given time there should be hundreds of people walking around.

Not even close. We've concluded that the vast, vast majority of people who live in our neighbourhood do not walk around.

I guess they stay inside or only drive their cars.

Mason smells good.

When Jake was a baby, he smelled awesome - like cookies. Mason didn't smell like that for the first few weeks and I was disappointed.

But now he does! Something changed in his body chemistry and he smells good. I like sniffing him and then making faces until he smiles.

I don't like some kids.

Yesterday at the park Jake was sitting in his stroller and we were walking toward him. Two kids, maybe 5 or 6, walked around the corner with toy light sabers. They saw Jake and said, "A baby! Let's kill it!"

Then they saw us and got all scared. They went off to the grass and started bashing each other with the light sabers.

As they were hitting each other they chanted, "Kill the baby! Kill it!"

We're in four successive star signs.

Each member of my family is in 4 successive star signs.

Mason is a Taurus. Cindy is a Gemini. Jake is a Cancer and I'm a Leo.*

Four birthdays in a 3 month period and we all managed to squeak into a different star sign. I'm not sure what this means, but it's mildly interesting.

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*TAURUS

APRIL 21 - MAY 21

GEMINI

MAY 22 - JUNE 21

CANCER

JUNE 22 - JULY 23

LEO

JULY 24 - AUG 23