The Colorful World According to Hooch...

It's no surprise that Mexilina's and my latests posts are about Hooch boy. It almost seems like he's becoming smarter exponentially. This also means he is more demanding of our time, and it's more difficult to keep him preoccupied with things that don't require our complete attention -- not that we try to, but sometimes we need a break, even from Hoochness.

Anyway, anyone who has children knows that coloring in brief doses is an activity that is always fun. Being the digitally addicted parent that I am, I, of course, found numerous sites that allow you to print illustrations for the Hooch.

Here are some of our favorite finds:

Crayola Creativity Central: Duh! But, you have to register to print the coloring activities

"Coloring Books" website: This site has a good number of coloring illustrations, but I'm waiting for Disney or Warner Bros to slap them with a law suit.

Kid Explorers Coloring Pages: No, I'm not a religious person, but the site has some interesting coloring pages. With the recent Intelligent Design debate, I think it's a hoot that they have dinosaur pages :)

Disaster Activity Books (by the Red Cross): Yes, you too can teach your kids about disaster... using a crayon! Oh yeah, you can download the coloring activity books in English, Spanish, and one other language. Can you guess it? If you guessed the the 9th most common language in the United States and the 20th in the world, you would be right: Vietnamese. I guess the Red Cross must know some statistic about the Vietnamese and disasters that the rest of us dont know. Right? As for filipinos, we don't need no stinkin' disaster coloring book. For one, we'd find some enterprising way to make a quick return from the resulting chaos (no, I'm not hating), and for another, the filipinos as a whole are patient survivalists, meaning we'd just as well wait out a disaster if it suits us -- as long as we have enough rice, fish and adobo.