Monday, June 10, 2019

Advertising Prodigy?

Here are Leif Brown’s tips on making good names for products.

Tip #1: think of the name in your head and then think about your favorite things. For me, war, guns and death. That’s how I got the idea of “peanut butter rush,” an appetizer made with a cracker, peanut butter and a pretzel on top. Rush to death. It’s also how I came up with “summer struck.” Have you been struck with a bullet or have you been struck with summer?

Tip #2: my second tip is you think of a word that has the same sound as the first word, then it sounds nicer.


Thursday, June 16, 2016

The Letter's in the Mail

Leify teaches Raccoon to draw.
Raccoon, Kian (a ferret puppet - named after a Pokemon character -- and I thought they were saying "Cayenne" all this time), Ben and Leif have been very busy writing letters today.




Thursday, February 12, 2015

Lawyer Leif

Guest Post by Grandma Kate


I am sure that Leif will take after his Aunt Jessie. 

He came home from gym and said he wanted to watch a show and have popcorn in the TV room. Grandpa said he should eat the popcorn in the kitchen and then watch a show.

Leif was having none of this. He argued that it was the eating couch he wanted to sit on. He did this all passionately, but without crying or being upset. 

Grandpa said he was tired of cleaning up popcorn. Leif said no problem and ran and got the dustbuster. He whipped out the attachment, turned it on and started to go over the rug in the TVroom. When he noticed that there was nothing there to get up, he threw some legos on the floor and vacuumed them up just to prove that it would work.

Grandpa said no again. So Leif explained that there was only one thing to do. Watch a show on Mama's Ipad in the kitchen while eating popcorn, and ran to get the Ipad and set it up. He was then perfectly happy munching popcorn and watching a show. He went through his argumentation in a very professional manner.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Screen Writing Debut

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gl3Dce1J1c

Love,
Anne

Friday, April 19, 2013

The Biggest Brain

Sadly, the new life saber in Ben's Luke Skywalker toy broke in half. Today, Ben asked me to glue it back together. He became very upset about my choice of glue, the glue didn't work anyway, etc., etc.  I ended up saying to him: "It's just a cheap toy, I can't do anything about it."

Ben: Where is my cheap toy? I want that cheap toy back.

Ben then asks me some other question, probably StarWars related.  I tell him, "Use your big brain to figure it out."

Ben: Whose brain is bigger, yours or mine?

Mama: I don't know.

Ben: I think yours is bigger, so YOU figure it out.

Mama: OMG -- if you're developing that train of logic to get your way, your brain is DEFINITELY bigger than mine!

Love,
Mama

Monday, March 25, 2013

Leif to the Rescue

Leif shows off his stuff for the ladies during a Nighttime Playdate at the Brown's house.  Per usual, he was streaking when Hannah and Audrey arrived, but was soon persuaded to don a diaper -- and then of course, a fireman's helmet, followed by his fireman's jacket and (his request) his shoes.  Let's hope the only fires he has to fight are fires of the heart!

No picture of Ben -- sorry -- but in the 30 minutes prior to the Nighttime Playdate, Ben sprang into action (as fast as a fireman might): he allowed me to give him a quick sponge bath (not so into actual baths these days - gross!), pulled ALL of his pajamas out of his dresser and selected the perfect pair to surprise his lady-friend visitors: Scooby Doo top and Cars 1 bottoms (the matching pairs had uncomfy bottoms, it turns out).  Then -- I can't make this stuff up -- Ben shouted: "We have to tidy up! Let's put all the toys away!" And, continuing to move at rapid-fire pace, he put away all his rescue bots AND CLEANED UP ALL THE TOYS IN THE PLAYROOM AND LIVING ROOM -- EVEN RETURNING TOYS FROM THE FIRST FLOOR TO THE SECOND -- WITH ZERO PROMPTING (and just a tiny bit of help) FROM HIS MOM.

Hannah and Audrey, you can come again ANY TIME!!!!!