Guess What I Got Today?

Our dinosaur drawing!  The Tiny Geek totally dug on Dinosaur Camp, and drove his mom nuts in weeks leading up to it.  Apparently there was an earlier picture, but unfortunately, it wasn’t high enough contrast to scan well.  So we went for the minimalist approach on this one.  I blanked out the Tiny Geek’s name to preserve anonymity: 

Dinosaur Picture by the Tiny Geek

Yes, we all done good by this.  When the Tiny Geek is a famous Paleontologist, we can all bring this up at lectures.  Because we’re buttheads, altruistic buttheads, but buttheads.

The Tiny Geek is Registered for Dinosaur Camp

And we have a hand-drawn Dinosaur picture as a thank you note forthcoming.  Soon.

The day I gave her the check, the Tiny Geek’s Mom picked the Tiny Geek up from Daycare, and asked on the way home, “So, Tiny Geek, did you still want to go to Dinosaur Camp?”
“MOM!  It’s just the most important thing in the WORLD!”

She then told the Tiny Geek that I had gotten you guys to donate the money, and that all we wanted was a dinosaur picture. 
“What’s Mickey’s favorite dinosaur?”
“I don’t know.”
“You HAVE to find out!  It’s IMPORTANT!!”

We should be the proud owners of a Plesiosaur drawing any day now. 

Also, when TG’s Mom called to make sure they still had room for TG in Dinosaur Camp, the staff said that they were very excited, because they remember TG from last year. 

You guys rock!  You made the summer of a Tiny Geek who needed some joy.  Thank you again, from me, the Tiny Geek and the Tiny Geek’s Mom.  TG’s Mom, by the way, still can’t believe you all chipped in to do this for the Tiny Geek, but she’s very grateful that you did.

Dinosaur Camp Funds Delivered!

Gave the Tiny Geek’s Mom the money for Dinosaur Camp today, just a few minutes ago as a matter of fact.  She says thank you, and she can’t believe a bunch of people who have never even met her or the Tiny Geek would pony up the money for him to go to Dinosaur Camp, but she’s grateful that you did. 

Thank you to Carl, Jeri, Gord, Tammy, Loree, Ray, Marty, Ben, Jamie, and anyone else I’m forgetting, or whose email I accidentally deleted in my glee.  You’ve made a Tiny Geek and the Tiny Geek’s Mom very, very happy. 

She promises that we will get a dinosaur picture that I can scan and post as a thank you note.  The Tiny Geek just cleaned out his desk at school, and according to Mom he brought home six of his dinosaur reference books, and one Star Wars book.  The dinosaur books all have sticky notes on tons of the pages with notes and observations written on them. 

Thank you all for being pure AWESOME!  This is what the internet is for, as far as I’m concerned.

Help a Tiny Geek Out.

Ok, so I have a friend.  Said friend is going through a bad spell (not entirely of her choosing), and as a result is kind of broke.  Said friend also has a seven year old who is a Tiny Geek.  And his particular field of Geek is DINOSAURS.  He loves them.  He reads books on them, quite frankly, that I would have trouble grasping.  He also writes really nifty stories that have their prey saying “Bye-Bye” as they’re eaten, but that’s neither here nor there.

Every year the Burke Museum at the University of Washington does week long Dinosaur camps.  Last year, before the bad spell, she sent  him to the first one, and he loved it.  Could not talk about anything else for months leading up to and after.  And if you know anything about 6-7 year old attention spans, you know how remarkable that is.  This year, she can’t afford to send him.

This is where you come in.

I have a PayPal account.  If you guys are interested in sponsoring the Tiny Geek to Dinosaur Camp, drop me a line with your email.  I’ll email you back the email the PayPal account is connected to, and we can send the Tiny Geek to Dinosaur Camp.  Any funds raised above and beyond the call of duty ($250-ish), will go toward a bitchin’ dinosaur book with the rest being donated to the Burke Museum, hopefully to be earmarked for the youth programs.

The Tiny Geek is awesome, and the bad spell has been hard on him and his sibling.  I don’t think it’s too much to ask to bring a little joy into a Proto-Geek’s life.  And, hey, maybe we can raise some money for a museum that does a lot of kid focused learning programs.  You gotta get ‘em young.  The Burke is also the training ground for many of our up and coming Museologists and Curators.  So any money for them is money well spent.

Help me encourage the seeds of Geekiness in the Tiny Geek.  Come on, any kid who teaches his two year old sibling to say, “Take the Geologic Specimens, Mama,” kind of rocks on toast.

ETA:  Ok, you can contribute using the PayPal account sirriamnis@gmail.com   It will come up with the Geek Husband What Rules’ name, because it’s the account we set up his Libsyn with.  But yes, all the money will go to the Tiny Geek and the Burke Museum if we raise enough.  I was going to create a new GGR Paypal, but damn it I just haven’t had the time.