The dogged determination of a Triplet Toddler

Snow globes and toddlers are a bad combination

I had previously seen this cute snow globe around the house. It was about 2" in diameter and we usually didn't let the kids play with it as we did not want anyone getting hit with it:) So when William wandered into the kitchen with it yesterday morning I thought nothing of it. I showed him how it worked and he LOVED it! Then I turned to finish cleaning up from breakfast.... not sure it if slipped or it was "discarded" by William but it went down on the hardwoods. BAM! It blew like it was designed by Stark Industries (we just watched Iron Man). That little snow globe had a blast radius of about six feet. Not bad for glitter, water and what turned out to be thin glass. Who would have thought it was glass?

Just as I turned William goes down in the puddle of water, glitter and glass shards. I, while sock footed, stepped in and scooped him up. Not sure what you should do in these cases but I pulled his PJ bottoms off and rinsed him under the faucet to get the glass off. Of course the other 2/3rds of our Triplets came running. To which I said "Stop, go back in the living room." To my amazement they did. Luckily William escaped with only two minor nicks on the bottom of his feet.

So for the next 45 minutes I worked on cleaning up glass. To add insult to injury I had to try and get up all the glitter. Glitter and I don't get along:) So after about 1/2 a roll of paper towels that I would wet down and wipe the floor with, scanning the floor with the flash light and running Roomba I felt safe.

Just another day with toddlers:)

Addison with her face painting from the weekend.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)


Al

Busy busy weekend!

My Brother-in-law and his family visited for the weekend. Nothing like having twins and triplets all under two in the same house for the weekend:) Everyone had a great time. We went to Aldridge Gardens for a pumpkin festival. There was a band, face painting, scarecrows, a plant sale and of course pumpkins! There were a few crying spats, a few tense moments with some geese but we got some great pictures.

The boys really liked "helping" Daddy pull the wagon.

The BEST quote so far.......

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
Warren Buffett

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I knew it would happen eventually...

I knew it would happen eventually. I was greeted by Jackson the other morning when I opened the Triplet's bedroom door. Yes, he had gotten out of the crib. It seems that he "practiced" all weekend at the In-Laws getting in and out of his pack-n-play. Don't worry, I will soon have this under control. I believe I have some rabbit traps in the basement that I can place around his bed:) Just kidding:)

So now we have some decisions to make. Do we embrace this and change the cribs to toddler beds? Do we put him in "baby supermax" with a crib tent? Do we just "teach" him not to get out of his crib? Next thing I know my insurance rates will be going up because of teenage drivers:)

Addison looks like she is saying "Yes, I got into the blue chalk also. You want to make a big deal out of it?"

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

Al

I need more doors and more door locks for that matter....

I am dealing with two VERY different issues but they both involve doors.

1. Now that Fall is here the CFO's weekly laundry output seems to have an inverse relationship to the the Stock Market. In short... I have A LOT of laundry to do:) Normally that is no big deal but being as she is a woman, most if not all of her clothes would be ruined by the dryer. Not sure what it is about women's clothes but the dryer seems to make her clothes shrink to Smurf sizes. So yesterday I did a couple of loads and I ran out of doors to hang clothes on. I mean I even used the towel rods in the guest bathroom. I know, I know, a drying rack! But that would make too much sense. Remember, I am a man:)

2. Jackson can open doors. So I must now lock the ones I don't want him to open. Like the exterior doors and the one to the basement. Next he will learn to unlock them so I will have to figure out something for that:)

The CFO brought this white tiger home from work and the kids LOVE it! I do not ask where such things come from:)

There is not any memory with greater satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
CFO - she corrected the previous one:)


Al

What makes you think I played with the blue chalk?

After the romantic weekend

I know, I know, we are just hopeless romantics. The kids are away for the weekend and we blissfully stain the fence and plant a tree:) OK, well, we start to plant a tree. I when I say "we" plant a tree, I mean the CFO does. She wants a tree... she digs the hole, well, most of the hole. We ran out of time and we had to go meet the in-laws to pick up the kids. Gotta love equal rights! I stay at home with the kids and she digs the holes.

She found the perfect spot for the tree in the front yard. Guess what? It was such a perfect spot that when she was digging she found the stump of a tree that had been in that perfect spot:) It was a small stump so she dug around it. That is when I got to get out one of my power tools and use it for a purpose for which it was not intended... EVERY GUY'S DREAM! I used my reciprocating saw to cut the stump up into pieces. No, I do not have a chainsaw. But I did give some serious thought to pitching the idea to the CFO. But with our Dave Ramsey budget in effect there was little hope for a new power tool:(

Before and after of the fence in the same picture.




Boy, oh boy, can the CFO dig a hole or what?

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
William Faulkner

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