I'm a mom. I have 2 sons: Drew, who is my favorite, and Nick, who is also my favorite. My husband, Andy, is a police officer. I take lots of pictures, and I like to think that they're good. I scrapbook. Oh, and I also work full time in a veterinary diagnostic laboratory. Currently my biggest desire is to find land available and build a house far out in the country, no neighbors nearby, with space for a herd of cattle and a big veggie garden.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Things I Learned This Weekend
From Drew, I learned that people don't come in the standard black/white colors that we hear so commonly. He informed me on Saturday that is friend Carl is brown, not black. I asked him what color he was, then, and he said he's peach. Further discussion revealed that there are light brown people, dark brown people, light peach people, and dark peach people. Interesting.
From Nick, I learned that our kitchen chairs are 90 feet tall. Yes, 90 feet tall. I asked him how he came up with that number, and he sat down and began pointing to random points on the legs of one of the chairs. He moved upward while counting (and he can only count to 25 reliably, the rest is hit or miss) and when he reached 90 he said "See?! 90 feet!".
From Jordan (neighbor boy), I learned that we have rattlesnakes in the vicinity. He showed up on the doorstep on Saturday with a baby snake (dead) and asked for help in identifying it. He thought it may be a baby copperhead. A 10 minute internet and textbook search revealed that no, it wasn't a baby copperhead, it was a baby rattlesnake. Nice.
From both boys, I learned that I shouldn't always trust them alone. I needed to take a shower yesterday afternoon after mowing the lawn, and Andy was at work. They are 4 and 6--certainly they can be trusted alone for 10 minutes while I clean up, right? As I was showering, I could hear them laughing, and I was happy that they were getting along and playing nicely. When I came out of the bathroom I discovered what was making them laugh so hard--they were taking turns spitting mouthfuls of Pepsi at one another. Yeah. I guess I should be glad they were in the kitchen and not in a carpeted area, but still... What a sticky mess!
Did you learn anything new this weekend?
From Nick, I learned that our kitchen chairs are 90 feet tall. Yes, 90 feet tall. I asked him how he came up with that number, and he sat down and began pointing to random points on the legs of one of the chairs. He moved upward while counting (and he can only count to 25 reliably, the rest is hit or miss) and when he reached 90 he said "See?! 90 feet!".
From Jordan (neighbor boy), I learned that we have rattlesnakes in the vicinity. He showed up on the doorstep on Saturday with a baby snake (dead) and asked for help in identifying it. He thought it may be a baby copperhead. A 10 minute internet and textbook search revealed that no, it wasn't a baby copperhead, it was a baby rattlesnake. Nice.
From both boys, I learned that I shouldn't always trust them alone. I needed to take a shower yesterday afternoon after mowing the lawn, and Andy was at work. They are 4 and 6--certainly they can be trusted alone for 10 minutes while I clean up, right? As I was showering, I could hear them laughing, and I was happy that they were getting along and playing nicely. When I came out of the bathroom I discovered what was making them laugh so hard--they were taking turns spitting mouthfuls of Pepsi at one another. Yeah. I guess I should be glad they were in the kitchen and not in a carpeted area, but still... What a sticky mess!
Did you learn anything new this weekend?
