When Blogs Collide
I was just feeding the boy lunch, minding my own business and, sue me, checking my email, when what should I see in my inbox but an e-mail from Mrs. Flinger, who is in Seattle for the weekend with her family, saying she could be in the U-District area this afternoon if we wanted to get together. For those of you who don't know, Mrs. Flinger is a fellow mommy-blogger from Portland whom I have never met in person, but I know a bit about her and her 9-month-old daughter, LB, by faithfully reading her blog. You may have seen her comment not so infrequently here on Isaac's blog also.
To sum up: Isaac, Dada, and I went to the U-Village this afternoon to meet a chick I met on the internet. Oh yeah. Insert Urkel-snort here.
We went to the children's section in the U-Village Barnes & Noble, which has a killer Thomas the Tank Engine train set that Isaac is in love with. There, we found Mrs. Flinger and her excruciatingly smile-happy LB:
We could only get a few pictures where Isaac wasn't wandering off to hand a train to somebody else's Dada (a phenomenon detailed in a previous post), but I was lucky enough to capture the super-cute moment of Isaac pretending to give his train to LB:
(there's Mr. Flinger in the corner, also trying to get the shot)
...and then showing her what to do with said train:
Can I just say, Flinger Fam...how super-neato was that? Well, I certainly *can* say that:
1) LB is even cuter in person than in her pictures, which I didn't think could be humanly possible. This is mainly because she smiles at you, or anything, at the drop of a hat. And she GROWLS. I could tell in our brief meeting what a little firecracker she is, and though she was in sky-high spirits, that she is a more than tad frustrated with her immobile-ness, as her eyes got bright watching Isaac run back and forth handing stuffed animals ripped from shelves to random Dadas.
2) The Flingers are even cooler than one would expect from reading their blog. And meeting was not at all weird or even nerdy, except for the fact that we are all nerds in real life. In retrospect, I feel kinda rude because I didn't really ask too much of Mr. Flinger, instead completely monopolizing the conversation with Mrs. Flinger. I hope he forgives, as I am a starved for chatty female company. If you guys are ever in the U-District again in the next few months, please oh please give us a ring.
And I need to get Mrs. Flinger's skirt. Boy, did that look comfortable.
**Update 5/17: Read about our meeting from the Flinger's point-of-view here
To sum up: Isaac, Dada, and I went to the U-Village this afternoon to meet a chick I met on the internet. Oh yeah. Insert Urkel-snort here.
We went to the children's section in the U-Village Barnes & Noble, which has a killer Thomas the Tank Engine train set that Isaac is in love with. There, we found Mrs. Flinger and her excruciatingly smile-happy LB:
We could only get a few pictures where Isaac wasn't wandering off to hand a train to somebody else's Dada (a phenomenon detailed in a previous post), but I was lucky enough to capture the super-cute moment of Isaac pretending to give his train to LB:
(there's Mr. Flinger in the corner, also trying to get the shot)
...and then showing her what to do with said train:
Can I just say, Flinger Fam...how super-neato was that? Well, I certainly *can* say that:
1) LB is even cuter in person than in her pictures, which I didn't think could be humanly possible. This is mainly because she smiles at you, or anything, at the drop of a hat. And she GROWLS. I could tell in our brief meeting what a little firecracker she is, and though she was in sky-high spirits, that she is a more than tad frustrated with her immobile-ness, as her eyes got bright watching Isaac run back and forth handing stuffed animals ripped from shelves to random Dadas.
2) The Flingers are even cooler than one would expect from reading their blog. And meeting was not at all weird or even nerdy, except for the fact that we are all nerds in real life. In retrospect, I feel kinda rude because I didn't really ask too much of Mr. Flinger, instead completely monopolizing the conversation with Mrs. Flinger. I hope he forgives, as I am a starved for chatty female company. If you guys are ever in the U-District again in the next few months, please oh please give us a ring.
And I need to get Mrs. Flinger's skirt. Boy, did that look comfortable.
**Update 5/17: Read about our meeting from the Flinger's point-of-view here
posted by Claire at 8:21 PM
1 Comments:
HA! I haven't had a chance to post my pictures yet, dang it! (Or send you the group ones) Girl, we had a BLAST! I'm so glad we got to meet y'all. Blogging became super cool Sunday when we got to meet you in real life. Also, I'd say the same. Isaac is amazing in real life. Totally a thinking child. He's going to be great at whatever he does in life.
Mr. Flinger isn't much of a talker. No worries. I don't think he even noticed. :-)
Skirt? Costco, baby! 10 bucks. Built in short. Perfect mommy gear.
And finally.. we're coming back Memorial Day Weekend. Yup! And the fourth of July. We love Seattle. In fact, we finally (after 5 years of saying we're going to) decided to try to move back. Dang it y'all are leaving!
Next time we'll do coffee. A seattle staple. ;)
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