Holy Cow!

A critter explosion the news said!!! Bugs everywhere! I meant to go scorpion hunting last night but forgot so now I know my destiny. I must go out tonight and become the scorpions arch enemy! The Spider! I won't be able to fling web or inject an acid type substance to break down your innards, but I will creep and crawl and smash your brains in!

Look at this kid... looking at it like Holy Cow! That thing is big!

I really would like to know what's going through Austin's head.


I was trying to sleep this morning when Sean came in at 5:00 or so with his cake toy that my parents gave Austin and Lacie for their B-day. The cake tower is basically like the blocks you stack up one on top of the other to make a tower, except that the cake pieces are made of this hard plastic and can get loud. Especially when it's 5:30 in the morning and all you want to do is sleep! I must've told him to be quiet over 10 times! I told him to leave and play with it in the living room. Big mistake! He was making more noise out there so I had to get out of bed and tell him to be quiet otherwise he would've woken up Oz and Lacie. I wanted to say some very choice words at that moment but my better parent in me told me to expel it later in a different way... Well, he came back in to my room with the cake tower and so I took it and put it next to me saying now you can't have it at all. I know, hurtful and probably not necessary, but I was too frustrated/tired to think straight. So now I had a kid on the verge of tears and all he could think about was getting his cake back.  He inched closer and closer to it saying over and over, "It's my cake okay? My cake back please". At this point my alarm went off, which was unnecessary by now and so I gave up, gave it back, and got up.

I've been playing tennis a lot more, but think I've injured my shoulder. I'm hoping it'll work itself out as I play on and strengthen the muscles used to play.