Excitement! Fame! Infamy! Adventure! Daring! Posing!
What am I talking about? Why, it's about our weekend, of course. Many a thing occurred in the last few days. Let me count the ways.
- We traveled far and wide to Grand Junction on Saturday after two days of selling our precious garage sale items. Phil had a comedy gig and a free hotel room, so of course I had to tag along. Our hotel was on Main Street, overlooking the limos, beat up vans, and borrowed cars full of teens going to their prom. Oh, prom memories. Phil's gig was competing with a rodeo, dirt bike event, AND the prom. Despite the obstacles, he managed to pull off a good show and sell out of his comedy T-shirts. Maybe if we find any leftover shirts, I'll do a giveaway contest. Lucky, lucky you.
Favorite overheard prom quote of the night:- "Woo! What are we going to do now?!"
- "Dude, I'm going home."
Amos and I managed to have fun. The hotel provided a new playpen for us, so Amos decided to put his scent on it by pressing his face against the mesh and licking it. That's some good ol' fashioned, homespun fun, I tell you what. 
- "Woo! What are we going to do now?!"
- A mommy group that I've participated in randomly was featured in this month's 5280 Magazine (you can read the article online). Good job, ladies! Too bad I haven't attended the group in awhile (Dad's sickness and death didn't help my social standing), otherwise Amos and I could have been photographed and interviewed as well. Ding dang. (Hey, Lisa. I guess we missed our chance to have fame and fortune. Let's drown our sorrows in some wine, women, and song.)
- Speaking of that same article, a highly intellectual individual with impeccable taste included THIS BLOG (!!!) as a favorite for local mommy blogs! Woohoo! Ding dang! Yeehaw! See the mention here. I'm not entirely sure who decided that Imaginary Binky should be included, but it is quite a nice thing and an honor. Thanks, Denver. You like me. You really, really like me.
- I guess to make up for our lost chance at fame, fortune, and endless accolades (heh), Amos has been chosen as a baby model by genuine Italian fashion designers. I kid you not, my friends. My adorable son had a callback today, and many Italian men and women fawned over him as he posed in their very cute children's clothing line. At least, we think they were fawning over him. We have no idea what they were saying because we didn't hear any of the familiar words we know: spaghetti, manicotti, ricotta, or even gelato. Tomorrow, I take him for his very first official (and paid) fashion shoot. Woohoo! FINALLY, this kid 'o mine will earn his keep. It's about darn-tootin' time. In the meantime, I will teach him some Italian words, such as:
- ciao bella!
- grazie!
- bella bella!
- Ha fatto la modella professionista per de dieci anni (he has modeled professionally for 10 months)
- che cosa ti fa male? È il rene? (What hurts? Is it your kidney?)
- and various other useful phrases.
I guess I should practice my best stage mother persona.
NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!!!
and,
STOP LICKING THE MESH!!!
14 beautiful people muttered something back:
Yes, it's very exciting indeed that our bambino will be starting to rake in the modeling dollars. Even now, I'm planning to become a horrible parent in the Coleman/Culkin/Spears mold. Soon you'll find me eating bonbons while perched atop a pile of the money earned by our precious, precious child.
And congrats to the Binks for catching the eye of the local media. If this keeps up, I'll be able to upgrade from a stack of nickels to a stack of dimes!
Phil "keep yer britches on" - Not so fast, Mr. Porter. We still need your chuckle money for the mortgage.
Also, upon closer inspection, I see my friend "Lisa from da block" and her wee lady in the magazine article's pictures! Yay for Lisa!
Amos looks very different through the mesh. I thought at first he was a toy. Maybe I'm just up too late. lol
Actually, I think you just revealed to the world that Amos is a 10 year old midget. I'm pretty sure that 'dieci anni' means '10 years' and 'dieci mese' would mean '10 months'.
Amos is so cute it should be ILLEGAL. :)
Your son is seriously cute. He will be such a lady killer!
happy to see happy things happening :)
stop licking the mesh
I think you could sell some t-shirts of that!
*G* Love those pictures of Amos mashing his face into the mesh!! Adorable!
Sounds like you had a great weekend!!
Really?!? I made the cut for 5280? Huh. I will be signing copies of my photo from 2-4pm on Thursday. Bring baked goods. That was the playgroup I went to where we talked about swoopy bangs. Did my bangs swoop in the picture? I need to get a copy of the mag and I want to find out where you're doing the Italian modeling with your cute babe. We talked about doing that, but it's so damn hard to get blue eye shadow on an 11 month old...
That is so exciting! Amos will be a sensation. Maybe he will also be the new Welch's grape juice kid. And pretty soon, he will be starring in a teen drama!
Congrats, and don't forget us little people. :-)
Hi, my first time visiting, via 5280, funny stuff!
Amos is adorable - I'm impressed that he will soon be fighting off Italian babies once his pics are released.
The weird thing is that I remember doing that same nose press/tounge lick thing to the screen door - and I must've been in elementary school at the time. Probably a little too old to be licking screen doors....
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