Movie Monday from Hell-This is Spinal Tap!

WARNING TO ALL!!!! DO NOT READ/WATCH IF YOU GET OFFENDED EASILY. DO NOT LET YOUR MOTHER READ/WATCH THIS, OR YOUR DOG, ESPECIALLY YOUR KID!!!!
So I have debated over posting this film ever since I started this whole movie Monday deal, but I have been fighting the urge every Monday and I just have to do it.
I do realize my mom reads this, my conservative brother and his wife, and my father in law so I hope you do not think of me differently after this.

OK back to the film. This is brought to you by Christopher Guest ( Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman) one of is earlier films coming out in 1984. Spinal Tab is a mocumentary of a rock bad named Spinal Tap. The reason this film is controversial here on my blog is because 1. it is rated R 2. It is R for good reasons and 3. You will laugh and then you might feel guilty for laughing. Anyways there is no nudity or sex scenes which is very good because that is a BIG NO NO in my book, however the problem is that the language is just down right filthy and I don't necessarily mean "F" bombs (although there are a couple) I just mean the band mates talk filthy and the lyrics are filthy, singing songs about "Big Bottoms" and what have you.
It is all meant to make fun of the 80's hair bands that really do sing dirty songs about that sort of thing in cryptic messages, but these guys just come out and say it. This is why it is so gosh darn funny and why I almost wet myself being very pregnant with Linus first seeing it.
So I highly recommend this one if you are going through a nervous breakdown for any reason, it is good medicine!
PLOT: In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
RATING: R like I said for good reason, the language.
STARS: 4 out of 5
ONE LINER: " But this one goes to eleven"

Funny 2 year old story!

So my sweet friend Nisha called me yesterday and wanted to know if Linus wanted to go with her and Sophie ( Linus' BFF) to the Dinosaur Museum and since Danny had Pneumonia and I had been up since 4:00am I was delighted. Anyways Nisha wrote this super funny story about their adventure on her blog! I hope you all get a good laugh out of it.


Today, Corinne and I took Sophie and Linus to the Dinosaur Museum. At the end of the exhibit is a fun sandbox where the kids can dig for dinosaur bones. Sophie and Linus were funny about the sand. Very unsure about the feeling of it on their feet, but after about 10 minutes, they decided to suck it up and have fun. They were darling playing together and having a good ol' time. Sorry Kelly, Sophie is to blame for that sand in Linus' hair. At least it only happened once!

So, some boy plops himself down right in front of Linus and Sophie. Linus tried to nudge him away, but the kid didn't budge. The kids are all moving the sand with little paintbrushes and yes with two year olds, it goes flying a little bit. So, Corinne and I were thinking how funny it would be if the little ones started scooping sand into said boy's pants. Oh, I guess I didn't mention that in everyone's viewing sight was about six inches of crack. Yes, major plumber butt. So, all of a sudden, Linus flings a good amount of sand into the boys pants and he flinches, sits straight up, but still does not move. Hello kid, you're sitting in front of two year olds, they are probably going to keep on scooping dirt on you. After about five minutes, the kid grabs Linus's brush and throws it across the sandbox. I go all MOM on him and explain that 2 year olds don't know better and he should move if he doesn't want to get sand scooped onto him.

End of story. Hope you got a good laugh too because I'm still laughing at the innocent mishaps of sweet little 2 year olds.

We're alive!

Hello hello, we are alive! So sorry it has been a whole month since my last post. This has been what has been going on. Roman has been a super colicky baby, so he was not sleeping much and crying lots-fun for us. He also wanted to be held all the time, so not much time for blogging. He is on prevacid and that has helped but not 100% so I called the doc. after a month of that and we decided to switch him to soy formula (yes he is on formula so back off breastfeeding nazis) and he has been on it for a week and is a whole new baby. So things are starting to go back to normal around here.
Linus has done good with baby, he loves "baby woman" as he says and likes to help out. He has his moments but takes it out on us not baby but part of that is the "terrible twos."
So here are some fun photos to tickle your fancy.

The top photo is Roman today (7 wks.) in a cute outfit aunt Holly mailed us from AZ.

Here is Roman in his awesome soccer shirt, Dad likes to watch soccer so he wants his boys to play.

Roman in his first pair of running shoes, they are New Balance in honor of his late Grandpa Paul who was sponsored by New Balance in the 80's.

I wanted to get a cute picture of the boys but Linus was mad because he wanted to hold the baby.

So here he is holding him, and Roman is naturally freaked out.

Roman was screaming so Linus was trying to shush him by giving him his Binky.

Roman and Linus asleep on our bed. This lasted for like 5 minutes, this NEVER happens.

Linus liked Roman's buttons.

Roman at 2 weeks.

There you have it folks! Also I was wondering if anyone really reads my Movie Monday posts? Comment if you want me to keep them up.

Movie Monday-Cinema Paradiso

Here is another great foreign film introduced to me again by Colleen. This story is so sweet and genuine, I just LOVE love love the story and the relationships in the film. It goes to show that you can have a best friend who is any age.
PLOT: A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence of Alfredo, Salvatore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditional film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young boy's dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world outside.
STARS: 4 1/2 out of 5
RATING: PG-13?

New pictures

My friends Katie and Rich came over and took some way cute pictures of Roman, here are some of them. Thanks Katie and Richard!

Baby Roman!

Well we have survived the first week! Roman is now 1 week old! He is such a cutie and we are loving him more everyday!

Linus meeting Roman for the first time.
Linus has been so cute with the baby. He keeps saying,"Baby cute!" he seems to be pretty excited about his new baby brother so far. He likes to help change the baby. He has had his nose a bit out of joint on the attention issue but he seems to just get mad at us and not baby. Yesterday Linus was singing his ABC's for Roman and today I got him doing it on video, so check it out below.

Roman Scott Harker!!!

He is finally here! I was scheduled to have a c-section on Feb. 3, but Roman decided to make an earlier apperance while the doc. was out of town.
Roman was born by c-section from the super neat partner of my doc. who was out of town, Dr. Jones. He came on Jan. 30, 2009 at 2:00am weighing in at 7lbs. 8 oz. and was 18 inches long. It is funny how we manage to have short babies when daddy in 6' 7".
I feel like the c-section went much much better this time (minus the spinal block that took 4 pokes and 10 minutes to place). Dr. Jones was great and was much more gentile than the butcher I had last time.
We are currently still in the hospital but hope to be gone either tonight of tomorrow morning. Roman is doing great and mommy is recovering much beter than the last time. We are so excited to finally have our sweet new baby boy with us!

Don't mind me looking a bit nasty.