"Give it to us raw and wriggling."

Last week Mel said four little magic words to me: "Let's go get Sushi."

I love Sushi, so I wasted no time agreeing to that one and Monday we went to Benihana's with some friends of ours for a Sushi lunch. It was delicious. Mel and I both got the lunch special which is two full rolls and a bowl of Miso soup for $10. Mel got an Alaskan roll, which consists of rice, seaweed, cucumber, and raw salmon, and a Vegas roll which is crab with cucumber, avacado, seaweed and rice deep fried and topped with a jalapeno slice and a dab of hot sauce. Both were excellent.

I had a Rainbow roll, which is a standard rice roll topped with three different kinds of fish, Salmon, Tuna, and Yellowtail, and a Dragon roll, topped with Eel. Eel is by far the best Sushi you can get. Unlike the others, the Eel is actually cooked in a type of BBQ sauce. Very tasty.

And the best part? Rylee enjoyed the sushi, too. Mel fed her several bites of her Alaskan roll, which she ate enthusiastically. When asked if it was good, she nodded her head and said through a full mouth, "Mm Hmm."

Below is a picture of Rylee taking a bite of Mel's Alaskan Roll.

Bowling Champ

For Christmas Mel bought Rylee a Barnyard Bowling set. It consists of six milk can bowling pins and a bowling ball imprinted to look like a cow. Rylee loves it. We set the pins up for her and told her to throw the ball at the pins. I will let the following video show you Rylee's most effective idea of bowling.

An Ode to Rylee's Shoes...

This post is dedicated entirely to Rylee's love obsession with shoes. Typical of women, though a bit earlier than I expected, Rylee is absolutely captivated by shoes. From the first time when she was maybe eight months old that she brought her little pink shoes to me and insisted that I put them on her, Rylee has spent more waking hours finding shoes, carrying shoes, wearing shoes, removing shoes, and providing shoes for others, than any other activity she has ever been involved in, bar none.

If she doesn't have shoes on, she finds a pair and brings them to us, holding them up with sincerity, begging us to put them on. If we don't have shoes on, she will go to the closet, where all the shoes are piled up on the floor, select a matching pair, (flip flops for Mel, tennis shoes for me) and bring them to us, throwing them at our bare feet with an insistent squeak that we immediately don presented shoes. If she finds a pair of our shoes laying around, whether she has shoes on already or not, she will try to stand in them and, if she is succesful in getting her feet in them, will then shuffle her way around the house in her new prizes. If she finds someone else's shoes laying around, especially if it's a style she's never seen before, she will study them, pick them up, test them, try them, and then either wear them herself or set out to find the rightful owner who obviously is unaware that they should still be wearing them.

So here are a few pictures from throughout her lifetime wearing, playing with, and exploring: Shoes.

-Josh

Disclaimer:

"Blogging: Never have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few."

I must admit straight away that I have never been very keen on the whole blogging thing. One reason, as those who know me can attest, is that I tend to avoid all things popular or common. If something reaches the mainstream, such as blogging or Harry Potter, and everyone else is doing it, I tend to steer clear of it. I am a unique snowflake, dangit! (See insert)

Another reason I have avoided it is simply because I am lazy, (Surprise, I know). I neither have the time, nor make the time, to spend updating a stupid web log.

But the main reason for my opposition, I would say, is that I have never really seen the point to it. Most blogs are little more than lonely people needlessly ranting their overrated opinion about some uninteresting and inconsequential topic that a host of maybe three people will read and one person may agree to or even care about. Those who I feel need to hear my opinion on any given subject will hear it, whether they want to or not. I don't need said opinion digitally archived and shared with the world in its entirety, (Indeed, in most cases that would be a bad idea as I frequently find myself scrambling to recall any given opinion and erase all knowledge of its prior existence).

However, in light of the recent exodus of The Geek (Gordon) and his family, and their subsequent entrance into the world of blogging, my eyes have been opened to a new and useful, even enjoyable use for blogs: keeping in touch with family and friends who have moved farther away than George Lucas's famed galaxy.

And so it is that I shamefully join the Dark Side, (I hear they have cookies) adding my meager voice to the mainstream populous in the realm of the Blog. I say shamefully, though I must admit to being a little exited to put some creativity to work here. Admittedly, this blog will be little more than an excuse to shamelessly plaster pictures of my beautiful daughter, Rylee, all over the internet. She is without doubt the star in this modest family and we are not oblivious to the fact that everyone would rather see her than us. In fact, for the most part we prefer it that way as well, hehe.

Thus begins the blog of Josh and Melanie Morrey. Hopefully Mel will update this mess as often, if not more, than I do. Stay tuned for a plethora of Rylee pics forthcoming.

-Josh