Happy birthday to us!
\nHappy birthday to us!
\nHappy birthday, 7-Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimp!
\nHappy birthday to us!<\/p><\/blockquote>\neisha<\/font><\/strong>: Is it possible?! We’re TWO! Two years old! And hey, we just had a little tantrum<\/strong><\/a> not too long ago, so I guess we’re developing right on schedule. Walking around, feeding ourselves, yelling “NO!” at the slightest provocation… my, how the time flies. J, can you believe it’s been two years already? And we’re still here?<\/p>\n
Jules<\/font><\/strong>: Yes, we did throw a tantrum, but at least we tried to use words (is that something only mamas-of-toddlers get? I dunno.) Really, it’s just growing pains, I guess. <\/p>\n
And we can look back on the year and consider the things we’ve done: Mainly, that I annoyed everyone, I have no doubt, experimenting with font sizes<\/font> and colors<\/strong><\/font><\/font> and by putting to use—entirely too often—the marquee tag. But see my restraint here? I didn’t put “marquee tag” in marquee tags!<\/p>\n
What was your favorite post this year, E? I think my own question is too hard to answer, but I will include here one of my favorite illustrations we posted this year — from up-and-coming illustrator, James Hindle<\/strong><\/a>. ‘Cause who doesn’t want a cupcake belt buckle? I ask you. And do you know: As a result of that post about James, someone contacted us and shared this actual cupcake belt buckle<\/strong><\/a>; she found it while looking for something to match her cupcake tattoo. For serious. And that would be Alison Alexander<\/strong><\/a>, Australian jewelry-maker, who—incidentally—has this fabulous autograph<\/strong><\/a> at her site. (My fan-dom for John Burningham<\/strong><\/a> knows no bounds. If we ever got an interview with him, well…I don’t know that it would actually ever get posted, ’cause I’d pass right out and wouldn’t be able to pick myself up.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, um, I know we should probably try harder to highlight all the things we did this year, but, shoot….people have the archives. And I’m excited that we re-discovered our roots and are gonna post more of Whatever the Hell We Want Whenever We Want To. Would you say that’s an apt description, E? <\/p>\n
Maybe our goal for 2009 could be to ACTUALLY find a book we disagree on and have another exciting smackdown<\/strong><\/a>, but this time between us. Do you think it’ll ever happen? <\/p>\n
eisha<\/font><\/strong>: I never thought you’d get burned out on posting about a quadrillion books a week, so I’d say anything is possible, J. <\/p>\n
Geez, though, a single<\/em> favorite post? I’m stumped. I’ve loved some of the previously-unknown-to-me illustrators you’ve snagged for us to feature, like Fernando Falcone<\/strong><\/a> (and I LOVE that we got to use his version of the Tea Party scene<\/strong><\/a> as one of our header images. Looks so nice with the Frank Dormer one<\/strong><\/a> too). Plus we talked to some of my all-time heroes, like Kadir Nelson<\/strong><\/a>. And we’ve interviewed some wicked funny authors, too, like Adam Rex<\/strong><\/a>, Jon Scieszka<\/strong><\/a> and Mo Willems<\/strong><\/a>, which was an honor as well as a hoot.<\/p>\n
Also, we started bringing guests in for our co-reviews<\/strong><\/a>, resulting in some fabulously fun tri-reviews<\/strong><\/a> with peeps like Betsy Bird (Fuse #8)<\/strong><\/a> and Roger Sutton<\/strong><\/a>. I still can’t believe you asked him to do that, Ms. Ballsy McBravepants.<\/p>\n
Nope. It’s been an incredible year. I can’t possibly pick a favorite post. <\/p>\n
Thanks, Jules, for being my BFF and blog partner. Big-ups to all our guests who take time out of their busy lives to answer our goofy questions, send us pretty pictures, and gab about books with us. And mega-super-size thanks to our other BFFs, a.k.a. our readers and fellow bloggers, who have made this too fun to quit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jules and Eisha: Here’s our Poetry Friday entry for today, an old classic, if you’ll allow us to sing it to ourselves: Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday, 7-Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimp! Happy birthday to us! eisha: Is it possible?! We’re TWO! Two years old! And hey, we just had a little tantrum not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}