I Just Want 30 Seconds

So, I am in the bathroom, and Grace comes in and looks at me and asks me what I am doing? What does it look like I am doing - I am peeing! I have worked here for almost 5 years, I think I deserve a potty break.

Worth a Thousand Words

Jack came to me and mumbled something about the fridge and making something cool. I wasn't really paying attention. Then I heard him in the fridge again, and saying something about making something cold. And then it registered what he was talking about....
My son put our kittens in the refrigerator. We had a talk.
I am thinking I may need to start another blog dedicated to just Jack and our cats. Jack and the tale of two tails - what do you think?

Serial Killer??

We got 2 kittens recently. We have all fallen in love with them. They are just starting to not run and hide when they see us. They have gotten a little comfortable with the kids. Today, I saw one of them sleeping on the couch and asked the kids if they knew where the other one was. They both said no - so off to search I went. I went into the guest room and noticed a chair up against the closet door, so I moved it. What made me look in the closet, I don't know - but there she was. Jack locked the cat in the closet. We had a talk.
Later.... I saw him trying to stuff the same cat in Graces play kitchen oven. Dad did you ever give him kitty meat?
He picks them up by their tails, and I even caught him not once but twice strangling them.
I hear this is how it begins - they start by torturing animals.

A Place I Can Go By Myself

I have found a new reason to read - not really a new reason, just one that I recognize that is vital for me. I meet new people. I get to know them and sometimes fall in love with them. I am just finishing a really good book. One that has been so different then any other book I have read before, not because of the story or the characters, or the way it is written, or maybe all of the above. I can see these people, I can hear them. I read and then get distracted by the kids, and catch myself wondering if I paused my show, only to remember that it is a book. I have stuck to the same authors, and find myself now older, and needing something more from a book. Nicholas Sparks you were great when I was younger, and loved reading about falling in love - but I think I am past that. I want something a little more - substantial. Something just as easy to read ( I have 2 little ones running around). It will be time to go to the book store again - or Camilles Closet.

A Jack-ism

You don't throw a fit, and you don't throw poop!

Both I find to be very good advice.

Just Pictures

It's Just Fertilizer - Right?

We have told Jack that if he has to go potty when he is outside playing he can just pee in the bushes. We told him this because he kept peeing on the cement. So now he 'waters' the plants. I think allowing him to pee outside has backfired. Yesterday Grace came in the house and told us that Jack went poo poo in the bushes. We looked outside to see Jack with his undies down around his ankles and streaks of poop down his leg, and a big pile, in my flower bed.
We made sure to explain that he has to come in to go poo poo, but it is ok to pee outside.
So later he came running into the living room, opened the slider, ran around the garden and peed in the bushes, and ran back around the garden and back into the house.
I think we need to have a talk and let him know that he doesn't always have to go outside, he is allowed to use the bathroom. Or maybe we will just build him an outhouse.