Things that make me sad

Blue 'kids' toothpaste on white berber carpet...all over the carpet in clumps and then smeared in. How does this happen? Apparently the tube is too hard for most of my children to squeeze to get the toothpaste out. My ingenious little ones decided to lay the tube on it's side. stomp on the tube to launch the toothpaste out, then walk over to the place where the glob lies and put some on their toothbrushes. Clever indeed.

I'm still very sad...

(Notice how it is a 'neat squeeze')

Mr. Broken Arm and his "Florida" test...

I'm posting a picture of Austin and his broken arm, which he broke in early March, due to a daredevil attempt that went wrong. He was playing downstairs and decided to rope two crutches together and jump from the downstairs kitchen counter onto the crutches ( a unicycle sort of trick). It didn't work so well and he wound up on the floor in a crumpled mess. I saw his arm and knew instantly that he'd probably broken it. We then called Randy, who was on his way home from several days of work travel to pick Austin up from the house and take him in to get his arm X-rayed. I thought I was pretty darn handy when I fashioned a homemade splint out of two wooden spoons and ace bandaged his arm up, even making a sling. Man, I'd be a good pioneer woman!

The following picture is of him right before he was getting his cast off on April 13th. I'm surprised that thing held together,it was so smelly! If you look closely, we actually taped it up with blue tape because it was literally falling apart. He would try to put his arm around you during our 'movie nights' and we would always have to ask him to put it on his lap. I won't soon forget the 'cast perfume' as I call it.

As the cast was taken off, he had part of a mechanical pencil top stuck in his arm from where he had been itching his arm with the pencil and had come apart as he scratched. This was maybe one week into the cast. Austin had told me he had something in his cast. I thought he said "pencil lead" he said "pencil head". Bad mom award... Well, that pencil tip left quite a large open sore that is now 'drying out" (sorry for that gross image if you were eating while reading my super updated entries - I usually eat brownies while catching up on blogging, but that's besides the point) so it does not become infected. So, not only did Austin break his arm, but he'll have a cool scar on his arm for his life in the shape of a mechanical pencil head (that's how I'm selling it). Isn't he handsome?!


In other Austin news...I was going over one of his geography tests. This one was on Florida. The question was "What is Florida's most famous natural feature? Describe it in at least two sentences" Here is what Austin put:

"Florida's most natural feature is old people because they want to relax and go to the beach."

I laughed so hard. He got the question wrong but he should have gotten at least a few points for creativity.

Maybe I'll update my blog this weekend. So much to post about.