A Whole Bunchastuff

First of all, I made a new blog. I have been thinking of making a public blog for a while, but haven't actually done so. I wanted it to be able to participate in contests and giveaways on other blogs, to be able to put up some info or photos and send it to someone without going through the hassle of inviting them to read here, and also to allow people to reach me somehow if I leave a comment on their blog or something.

I buckled down and did it because Adi's geneticist wasn't able to log in to this blog easily to watch the videos, and I felt bad for making him run around and click a million links. (In the end, he was able to log in here, and I removed the videos from the public blog.)

Since I was going to make it for the geneticist, I wanted a short and easy URL with "Adel" or "Adi" in it. But they were all taken. Here are some of the cute ones:

http://adi.blogspot.com/
-This one looks like something my Adi could have done. I'll have to talk to her about what she has been doing during my 30 second bathroom trips (which is the only time she is ever out of my sight.)

http://babyadi.blogspot.com/
Another real Adi!

http://adibaby.blogspot.com/
"Adi's Spot"? More like "Adi's Spots." But seriously. Adibaby?? Don't they know it's a copyrighted term?

In the end I chose something more broad for the URL: http://threetiny.blogspot.com/
I'm open to more original suggestions, though!
So far I put up one post on that blog. Henceforth, whatever I post there, I will post here as well, so there is no need to bookmark it.

Another little update. My little green box on the right, Feedjit, which tracks visitors to this blog, just got a cool update. They now allow you to personalize your info and add a link! I now appear as "GAMZu" instead of just "Brooklyn, NY" and my name links to my Facebook account. And anyone can do it! You just click on "Live Traffic Feed Menu" and they will ask you to sign up for Feedjit and enter your info. The only personal information they ask you is your email, but they do not send you anything. It's just to make sure you are human.
You must include a link to either Facebook or Twitter, which I don't think was a good idea on their part. Why not just allow your name (or screen name) to show up in the feed without a link? Whatever.

In any case, if anyone wants to go through the two or three short steps and appear in the traffic feed as a name instead of a location, I think it would be so much fun. It would totally add to the social aspect of things.
Although I do recognize the lonely readers in South America and specific states, I think it would be fun to differentiate between the many Brooklyns and Israels.

Oh, and if you visit my new blog, make me smile and leave a comment.

Extreme Nursery Rhymes

We go to the library story hour on Mondays. The kids love it. The librarian reads several books and plays finger games with the kids, sings songs, nursery rhymes and all such fun things. I love it, too. I get to socialize with (non-virtual) adults, make new friends... it's great. Each time you come you sign in and every few weeks each child gets a book to take home.

The boys love singing the songs that they learned and saying the poems at home, too.

In the past few weeks, we learned:
"Where is Thumbkin? Where is Thumbkin?
Here I am, here I am..."

"Five little monkeys jumping on the bed.
One fell off and bumped his head..."

and another one that I never heard before that starts:
"Five little pumpkins sitting on the gate..."

Well, yesterday Gedalya was playing and singing to himself,
"Five little Thumbkins jumping on the gate!"
Haha!

I really must copyright some of these gems. Gedalya might just have composed a radical new nursery rhyme!

Copyright Infringement, Part 2

This is the second time I find a company illegally using my children's terms for various items for their own products. First they snatched Zusha's term and now they boldly went and took Gedalya's originality for themselves.

I hereby present, as evidence:


Looks like an innocent package of marshmallows?
Look closer:


Chalk Cookies is an original term! I insist that justice be performed. Soon enough they will be stealing Adel's terminology!

Copyright Infringement

When Zusha was about 2 years old, he'd say the word "toddler" as "toddlin." It was a totally original word. And then I see this:

What are my legal rights?