LORI BLOG: More pics

Wee! more swimming pics! splish splsh! Imma mermaid princess!


No, Dad. You can't have any of my rattle.

LORI BLOG: Memorial Day Weekend and MORE!

So, I know it's been a while since I did a good update, and some of you are probably wondering what I've been up to. Well, ohmygod, lemme tell you!!

Firstly, Gramma Kathy gave me a new round rattle. It looks just like a lollipop, or at least, that's what Momma says. I don't know for sure, cause I've never had a lollipop before, but I certainly did know what to do with it! :)

Oh, and then Papa and I danced. And I went to Bike Fest (Ya'll already saw the pictures of that.)

The things that I've been most excited about are swimming and eating!


Swimming : Lori's a Fish inWater
It was a blast! I floated and kicked and splashed and looked all around! Momma was so wonderful. She coated me head to toe in sunscreen, then put on my swimming suit. Do you like it? It's a two piece! I'm stylin'! :) And she even had a hat and sunglasses, but she didn't get a picture of that. Gramma Tere did, so when that photo gets in, I'll post it. I even drew a crowd of on lookers and bigger kids wanting to swim a mermaid princess in dah makin'! We even worked on some signing too! Water. Momma signed water, and Gramma Tere learned water, but she knew thank you! We said thank you for the water. Uncle Poo was splashing everyone. That night, i was laughing in my dreamin' that I was a Mermaid Princess. I really like "Porpoise of the Opera" and "Jesus Christ, Super Starfish".

Eating : How did I get CORN behind my ears?!
OMG, Carrot Purree is YUMMY!!! See my video!!!

Whew! With so much going on, I'm ready for *facewaffle*

*gets picked up by Momma and put in bed*
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LORI BLOG: Bike Fest

This weekend was ACTION PACKED!

I went to Bike Fest with Mom's Roller Derby League and a PROFESSIONAL photographer took our picture!!

How awesome is that?

And it was a blast. Auntie PK's Daddy walked around with me so i could see everyone. I loved being a part of things with my skates on.

I even helped Momma Moosey talk to the crowd about roller derby. I'm an old pro, after all! Been doing derby things all my life! ;) Well, sorta. LOL




Here's me and Mom and her ultra cool league girls!
























PS: OMG! I almost forgot! I got my first birthday party invitation today! I'm so excited! I just don't know what I'm going to wear!!!!!

Baby Signing Time

It's here!

We love it!!

We watched it this morning for breakfast. It was cute watching her watch it. She was facinated. And more, because we'd begun signing to her already. And when they introduced finished while she was still eating, she grabbed at her bottle, as if to say, "No I'm not!" LOL

Ceci, you rock! I love this DvD. Thanks for the tip!

Next on the Shoppnig List: The next level!

JOSHIE'S SOAP CRATE: Am I the only one who can smell it?

JOSHIE'S SOAP CRATE

Cause a box is just too small!

PREFACE: Joshie's Soap Crate is the part of Clauie's blog dedicated to entries from Josh himself, because he occassionally wants to rant online, but doesn't want to run a blog himself. Feel free to leave him comments. He reads this blog and can and will comment back. Enjoy the rant!

I should start a blog or something...

The Democratic Party has started coming out against "Big Oil" and is planning to repeal several tax cuts enjoyed by the oil industry, as well as imposing a "windfall" tax. The logic is, in a time of gas prices rapidly approaching $4.00 a gallon, and the price of gas hurting the economy as a whole, "Big Oil" is posting record profits. Those bastards. How dare they make money at a time like this. The people are suffering and need their cut of pie.

Take another look at that.

Let that soak in for a second.

Smell the bullshit?

Crude oil is a global commodity. Every industrialized nation on this earth does one of two things. They sell more oil than they buy, or they buy more oil than they sell. (Its actually a lot more complicated, because crude oil isn't in itself used for much, and the ability to refine crude is different than the ability to drill for crude, but for the purposes of this discussion, lets keep it simple). So countries like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Venezuela, etc etc etc, have an abundance of crude oil. So they can sell what they don't use. And do.

Other nations, like the United States, France, Canada, Britain, etc etc etc, do not have an abundance of crude oil, and so must purchase it. And do. To the tune of 20 million barrels of crude oil a DAY in the United States alone.

And thus you have the basis of a global market. If you need the basics of how a global market work, your beyond the simple help I can offer here. I don't suggest you try your hand at the stock market either. But let me try a simple break down.

Something is worth what someone else will pay for it.

Its actually where the definition of "priceless" comes from. Something that is "priceless", say the Mona Lisa for a famous example, is an object that you cannot easily look at the global market, compare to similar items found there, and find a monetary value for.

Oil isn't priceless. In fact, you can quite easily look up how much Iran is selling its oil for, and how much Venezuela is selling its oil for. You can also take a look into the annuals of history and see how much oil was going for yesterday, and the day before, and on the day of your birth if you were so inclined.

I know what your thinking. What the hell does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

I'm glad you asked. Here's the point. Yes, ten years ago oil was trading at a much lower price than it is now. Has production slowed? Is there less oil today than there was ten years ago?

No. Oil exploration and drilling is at an all time high.

Your problem is demand. Ten years ago, China wasn't an emerging first world country with the biggest economy since a bunch of rebellious guys got together and decided to form a more perfect union, and the king be damned.

That's right. China's economy is rapidly expanding and is soon going to equal the consumer whore that is the United States of America. And it doesn't look like it will stop there.

What does that mean? It means that the United States is no longer one of the only big spenders when it comes to oil. So lets break it down. If oil production is up, why haven't prices gone down, instead of up?

Because of demand. Meaning for every extra barrel of crude that was pulled from the ground, more countries want to buy it. It means that the price goes up. Why? Because something is worth what someone else will pay for it. You don't want to spend a $120 a barrel on oil? That's okay. China will.

Let me phrase this in a more at home scenario. A Christmas not so long ago, the toy de jour was the X-Box 360. (Or the tickle-me-Elmo a few years before, or the whatever. Fill in the blank there with whatever toy was the hot item that every kid had to have, and you went from store to store to store to store trying to find one.) It was a new product. It was state of the art, top of the line, and every kid in America wasn't gonna love you on Christmas morning unless you had one under the tree. The suggested retail price was $399. Don't quote me on that. I'm going off of memory here. So you headed out to Wal Mart to pick one up. "I'm sorry sir. Were sold out."

Target, sold out. Game Stop? No luck.

And then, with Christmas only a week away, with you getting desperate, there's light at the end of the tunnel. EBay. Someone finally has the X-Box for you to buy. You load up the web page, scan the prices and gawk. Some of these are going for a thousand dollars. What? You mean to tell me that something that someone else bought at Wal Mart for $399, I have to pay $1000 for? Yep. That's how demand works. When something is in short supply, the price skyrockets.

Now to relate this back to oil. Remember when I said that China is buying a lot of oil? Guess what that means? Yep. Prices are up.

So.....do you think that the makers of the X-Box made a "record" profit off the Christmas rush?

Is Microsoft, the maker of the X-Box, to blame for the price of their product skyrocketing?

So in short, if you want prices to go down at the pump, one thing and only one thing has to happen first. The must be a back log of oil. For prices to come back down, oil consumption, and oil production have to meet (Meaning one barrel produced for every one barrel used), and then finally supply must exceed demand. More oil needs to be produced than the amount of oil being used.

So how does this all tie into the Democratic Parties 'solution' to rising gas prices?

Think on it for a moment. They are trying, in short, to make it more expensive for oil companies to create their product. So you tell me. Do you think that will raise, or lower the cost of gas?

Can you smell it now?

Clauie's Comment: I can! PEE-UUU!! Stinky!

Lori Update

Hey there!

I know it's been a while. Dad's been working on our interweb recently, so Mom and I really haven't had much in the way on online time. *cry*

But it's okay. It's given me time to do lots of cool stuff!!

Like this, check it!

Here's me all ready for school one morning! A beautiful, antique inspired long sleeve blouse, and the pants and hair ribbon my Crazy Aunt Lene got for me. One shirt's getting too small, and I like to try to pull it over my head, so Papa doesn't like to let me out of the house with it. It's like he thinks I'm a little Flasher or something!

Oh! Here's me working on rolling over. I'm trying to get from my back to my front. I finally managed it this evening, but in this pic, I still wasn't all that sure of how. My elbow kept getting stuck in the way. Whew! Rollie Pollie'ing all over is hard work! But I wasn't ready for a nap yet!





Nope, not me! I continued on with my hand-eye coordination! I grabbed that parrot and held on tight while he danced and sang at me. (I sang too!)







And here's Papa and I out for lunch Sunday after church. No.. this isn't what I wore to church. I had my best Sunday dress on! It's the same one I wore to Ari's sweet sixteen. But it's just a bit too much dress for an afternoon out with the Parental Units. Do you like the hat? My aunties Ceci and Ana's friend, the Robincat, made it! It slips around a bit, but that's okay! It's super stylish!

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Well, that's all for the moment. Momma's working on video editting my hair drying session. I just ROLL WITH LAUGHTER!

Edit: Papa said no to uploading the video of my laughter. T.T Sorry, Interweb World!

ROFLMAO
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PS: I forgot my impression of my godfather, Uncle Danno.
Check me out!
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