April, 2008:

Tonight’s the night! Catch the premier of the Wonder Pets “Save the Beetles!”

We had a chance to prescreen this episode awhile back and it is SO STINKIN’ CUTE. Seriously, most of the jokes go right above the kids’ heads – it’s written more for the grownups, particularly those of us who are fans of The Beatles. The Wonder Pets head out to Jolly Old England to rescue the famous rock band, “The Beetles” – they are trapped under water when their yellow submarine gets caught in kelp. Of course, they have to sing, “Help!” or rather, “Kelp!”

There’s a new kind of Beatlemania craze hitting the preschool airwaves as The Wonder Pets! travel to Liverpool, England, to save their favorite rock band on “Save the Beetles!”, a new primetime musical adventure premiering Monday, April 21, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. The Wonder Pets! tribute to the Fab Four features Lenie Colacino and Tom Teeley of Broadway’s Beatlemania as guest voices for the famous animated bug band The Beetles. The new mini-operetta is composed by Larry Hochman (orchestration for Monty Python’s Spamalot), who also serves as lead composer on the series.

Also included in this episode is a second new adventure called “Three Wonder Pets And A Baby!” In this story, a Piglet comes to live in the classroom, but The Wonder Pets each want to take care of it on their own. They realize they must work together to care for the rather large baby pig. It’s super cute. I really like this show! It’s one of my kids’ favorites, but I find myself humming along to the songs and then singing them later with the kids. If you miss the episode tonight, no worries. It’s coming out on DVD tomorrow, so head on over to Target and pick up a copy.

The view from my hotel room., originally uploaded by lalagirl.

I can’t wait until I have time to sit down and write all about the amazing time I had at the Sony Mommy Blogger Event!

For now, I’ll just share this photo – I took it as soon as I entered my hotel room. Now that’s a view I could get used to! I love seeing the mountains every day, but man – seeing the ocean and palm trees was a REAL nice change of pace!

Tune in for details about the event in the next day or so.

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4 Comments posted on “The view from my hotel room.”alli on April 16th, 2008 at 7:16 pm #

I’m totally jealous. Have fun!
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Bev on April 16th, 2008 at 7:24 pm #

You deserve it! I hear it’s snowing in Colorado!

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Jennifer on April 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm #

Oh that looks fabulous! Have a great time!
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freakgirl on April 16th, 2008 at 8:09 pm #

I am so jealous, and I’m not even a mommy blogger.

I have the NYC comic book convention this weekend instead…um, it’s going to be the warmest spring weekend on the East Coast and I’ll be stuck in the Javitz Center with a bunch of smelly nerds.

(I kid. I love nerds.)

Enjoy your adventure. There aren’t even words to explain how richly you deserve it.

I’m getting ready to go nighty night in my big old bed, all by myself. I’m thoroughly enjoying myself in LaJolla so far. The other blogging gals here went to dinner together, but I wasn’t able to join them because I was getting a complimentary massage. And wow, it was amazing! After that, I came back up to my room, listened to the ocean, and ordered room service.

My friend Julie came by at about 9:30 or so. We walked around a little bit, and she got a gelato at a little shop across the way. Then we came back up to my room and just talked, and looked at pictures of the kids, and pictures of the sets she’s designed at her job. She seems so happy. I’m happy for her! I miss my Julie-boolie, but California’s been good to her, it seems.

I talked to Paul, and it sounds like I missed a great show tonight. We had tickets to see Blue Man Group with big Paul and Suzi, but since I’m here, Paul took my dad instead. My dad neeeeever gets to see or do anything fun like that, and he’s a big fan of BMG, so I suggested Paul take him. It sounds like they had a blast!

And now I’m off to bed. It’s only 11:30, but I’m on Denver time, so it feels like 12:30. My bed was turned down and there was a fluffy robe and slippers laid out for me when I got back. I mentioned this to Paul and he said, “Don’t get used to that pampering, babe. Remember: we live in the ghetto.” Ha!

Tomorrow’s going to be a busy busy day, and it should be a whole lot of fun too. I’m so excited to be here. Whee!

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3 Comments posted on “Sleeping alone in a king sized bed.”

alli on April 17th, 2008 at 6:22 am #

LOL, you live in the ghetto!

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MM on April 17th, 2008 at 6:34 am #

Jealous.

Amy on April 17th, 2008 at 7:17 am #

Paul cracks me up.

Hey – Lauren lives near there!! Not sure if you’ll have time to hook up though.

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I’m so excited! In 2 1/2 hours, Paul is taking me to the airport so I can get on a plane and fly, far away from the House of Twins. I’m going to the Sony Mommy Blogger event in Southern California, where they are NOT expecting 4 to 8 inches of snow by tomorrow morning! I’m joining a bunch of other cool mommy bloggers to check out some new products from Sony, including the Sony Cybershot DSCW170, Sony Alpha DSLRA350 Digital SLR Camera, and the Sony HDR-SR11 10MP 60GB High Definition Hard Drive Handycam Camcorder with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom. Quite a step up from my 6-year-old, 4 megapixel Sony Cybershot.

I’m also really excited about meeting with photography expert Me Ra Koh. We’ll be shooting pictures on the beaches of La Jolla, and honestly, I’m tripping out a little bit that I’m getting to go somewhere beautiful to do fun things with cool people, all because of my blog. Is that just crazy?

And! I’m really, REALLY excited about meeting up with my girl Julie! I’ve only seen her a handful of times since she moved to Sacramento, and then, San Diego. Julie! Denver misses you! I’ll be back Friday night, but actually – I’ll probably blog the whole time I’m gone, since I’m taking my laptop and all that. And I’m going to try to take lots of pictures and upload them to Flickr, too, so check ‘em out!

Um…I moved this post from my other blog, so I just c/p’d the original comments below. Lazy!

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5 Comments posted on “Sony Mommy Blogger Event”

Erica on April 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am #

You will have a blast! The San Diego area is the perfect place for photography – and the weather.. oh I miss that sunshine!

SadieCass on April 16th, 2008 at 11:36 am #

That’s great, LAura!! I hope you have a blast!! Drool over those cameras for me, would you? I’d kill to go to that event!!

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Kim from Utah on April 16th, 2008 at 11:46 am #

Don’t forget to put on sunscreen!

Domestic Chicky on April 16th, 2008 at 1:17 pm #

Yay!! Can’t wait! Have a safe trip-see you there!!

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BigHeavy on April 16th, 2008 at 2:31 pm #

Awesome!!!

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