No Polar Bear Club for Me

Last week I got a nasty surprise. Our hot water heater was not working, so I had to think of some way to make my bath warmer. I boiled several pots of water. I succeeded in making the water slightly above frigid.

Thankfully, the pilot light had only blown out and the hot water heater has been working well ever since. Hot water has now been added to my list of things to be thankful for. :D

David Archuleta

Ok, I'm really excited that David Archuleta is now in the final two for American Idol. I normally do not get into "reality shows", but who couldn't help but love this humble guy. :D

Labyrinth Obsessed

You probably know by now that I love the movie Labyrinth. I told my husband that I wanted the new addition of the movie for Mother's Day. I opened it on Saturday, and we have already watched it at least 5 times. My kids love it! HeHe. My husband thinks that we are all weird for liking it so much. He teased us about it and then he sat down and watched the rest of it. LOL!

My son gets excited every time he sees Toby (the baby). He keeps pointing out babies everywhere that we go. His hints about how he would like to have one in the house are becoming more persistent. I guess he's tired of being the littlest one.

Baking Product or Shampoo?

Leaving two little boys alone for five minutes can lead to a very interesting adventure. This is the lesson that I learned yesterday.

I was watching my friend's son who is almost two years old for a couple of hours. He had been playing fairly well with my 2 1/2 year old son. I was looking up something on my computer and the boys had shut the door closest to me so that I could not watch them play in the playroom.

I heard the door open to the other side of the basement and I looked over to see my son completely covered in flour. Not a good sign! I opened the door completely and found flour all over the floor, the mats, the vacuum, and a very casper looking little boy. Sigh. There is no use crying over spilled flour right.

Well, I decided that the little boys were in desperate need of a bath. My friend's child had so much flour in his hair that you could not tell that his hair is brown and his scalp was completely caked in white flour. I'm pretty sure that my son had poured a lot of it onto his head using the cup that we use to scoop the floor out of the storage bucket.

The little boy did not take very kindly to get an impromptu bath. After my son joined him, he decided that maybe playing in the water was a better option than crying. My son, came clean immediately. I shampooed the other little guy's hair four times and then gave up trying to get all the flour out of his hair. The remnants had turned into paste. Grrrr!

I put them both in fresh clothes just in time for my friend to arrive. We decided that laughing was a much better option than crying. The moral of this story is, never leave two something year olds alone in the vicinity of a container of flour. It is not a good thing.

The Shed

We have been talking about building this shed for as long as we have been married (a little over 7 years). We've had a garage door without the hardware for it for about 5 years. Now we are actually starting to see it take shape.

This is what our back porch looks like right now. I discovered this picture this morning along with about 15 other interesting shots that our amateur resident photographer (AKA our four year old daughter) secretly took with our digital camera. By the end of June we are hoping to be able to use the back porch as an official back porch.