These are a few of my nastiest things...

Dumpster Diving - Kid Style

2008-08-04T12:46:00.000-07:00

We had just dropped off our recycling (which netted $8.00) and headed across the street to wash the car after a week of camping at the beach. Still thinking of the $8.00, the boys started to look for empty water bottles and cans. After a few minutes Lisa and I look over to see this:

After collecting a whole bag of bottles, Jack got in the car and said with disgust, “SOMEONE is just throwing away money!!!”

At the very least I know they will make successful homeless men someday.

Learning The Hard Way

2008-07-19T10:07:00.001-07:00

If I had a dollar for every time I told the kids not to run around the pool…

As you can see from the photos, Scott doesn’t listen. He slipped and landed on his front tooth. Blood was everywhere. The tooth got pushed back and twisted sideways. It was pretty messed up. It hurt for long enough that later that night he decided to take matters into his own hands while I was at a meeting. He and his brother cooked up a brilliant plan to remove the tooth. Scott bit down hard on one end of a ½ inch diameter rope (with the bad tooth) and Jack held the other end and took off running. When the slack in the rope disappeared, so did the tooth. Tooth gone – pain gone.

Removal tool.

All Better!

Sorry this one is out of focus. Emmie took this picture as I was gone during the removal and missed all the fun.

Hotel Housekeeping is Fake Cleaning Again

2008-07-18T08:08:00.000-07:00

Okay. We all know about the comforters. We’ve seen the undercover video of maids pretending to clean your room before you check in. But for me it’s an “out of sight – out of mind” thing. If I don’t see the problem, it must not exist. This time the problem wasn’t out of sight. The floor of the bathroom had a plentiful collection of a previous guest’s hair. This is really sick.

Eat Your Veggies!!!

2008-07-12T10:16:00.000-07:00

Good parents teach their children to eat vegetables so they can grow up to be strong and healthy, right? Well, it’s not such a good idea when having a backyard picnic at a friend’s house. After forcing down one bite of grilled zucchini from the vegetable kabobs, Jack’s gag reflex was too much to control. He gave back the zucchini, along with the chicken, bread, grapes, etc. We are such great dinner guests!

One last gross tidbit:
After putting the camera away and before I could do anything about the barf, the family dog licked up every last bit of it. I am learning that I need to keep the camera with me every moment of the day.

The Beach

2008-07-06T18:36:00.000-07:00

We went to the beach this week. We were enjoying the scenery, but after about two hours this became my view.

Enough said.

In case you didn't get enough:

Photos by Riley

On the bright side, someday the tatoo will be covered by the thong!

THE GROSS YELLOW CUP

2008-06-30T11:40:00.000-07:00

A yellow cup. “What,” you might ask, “could be gross and disgusting about a yellow cup?” Let me share. I was informed last night that one of the kids, who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons, decided it would be a funny prank to pee in the cup while in the shower in hopes that a sibling might dump it on them self when showering next. There you have it. Even a simple yellow cup can be thoroughly sick around here!

FRESH ROAD KILL!!!

2008-06-26T15:16:00.000-07:00

This morning on the way home from piano lessons we drove past (or should I say over) this sad little creature. As is customary for our family, we promptly got on the bikes and scooters to go back for a close-up view. We had to hurry in fear that some poor city worker would beat us to the still warm carcass. Never let it be said that a child’s prayers are not answered!

As we turned to leave the possum, Jack borrowed his parting words from Chris Farley.
"That…was…AWESOME!!!"