Sock trouble

Feeling like their father might disown them, the children go into cute mode.

Perhaps the last thing you want to hear from your naked, un-potty-trained daughter as she runs out of the room is "Uh oh." Still holding the diaper I was trying to put on her when she ran away, I went to see what I was going to have to clean up.

On the plus side, it wasn't what I expected. Instead, for some strange reason, Sadie had tossed one of her socks into a urine-filled toilet. And of course the timing of this move couldn't have been worse, as I was trying to hustle the children out the door to go to school.

Coincidentally, I had dealt with another sock emergency just minutes earlier when Soen, who after running around in the dew-soaked backyard in his socks, wondered, as he was putting on his sneakers, why they "felt funny."

Someone recently told me it was harder to raise smart children than dumb ones. I now find myself questioning the wisdom of that statement.

Gotta keep the grandparents happy...

Bedtime for bozos

It's amazing how much fun kids can have in bed, especially when it's king-size. First we have Soen practicing his art of levitation. Although it's hard to see, in this second photo, Sadie actually caught a little air in her attempt. In the third photo, the kids are being kittens and are sleeping together in a nest I made for them. I wanted to catch them on the video camera because they were both meowing and it was rather cute, but of course the damned battery was dead. Anyway, the last photo is Sadie's new big-girl bed. Very exciting. One thing we've discovered about her, however: She sleepwalks. Two nights (or maybe three) in a row now she's wandered in to our bedroom in the middle of the night, only to walk right out again. And both times wife, after putting her back into her bed, reported that she really wasn't awake. At first we thought we were going to be lucky with her staying in bed, because she did so the first two nights. But then I think she realized that there was no barrier to prevent her from getting up. I never said she was brilliant. Just cute.

Tech Savvy

Sadie earning her keep.

The other night we were getting ready to eat dinner when suddenly I realized I didn't know where Sadie was. Then I heard music. Remembering I left my computer on with all my work crap still on the screen, I hightailed it to my office and saw this. Not only was she banging away at my computer but she had managed to turn on my iPod. She was rocking out, happy as could be.

It took me several minutes to undo whatever it was that she did to my computer. But at least I got a couple pics out of it.

Our first tropical storm

Sadie to Hanna: "I've had worse storms in my diaper."

Just in case anyone was worried, the storm passed by without incident. Frankly, we slept through the whole thing.

Truth, Justice, and America of the Flag

Soen calls our flag America of the Flag. At first I thought it was cute. Now, I think speaks of a deeper truth about the two Americas. There's America. And then there's America of the Flag.

Anyway, these pictures have nothing to do with that. These pics prove that you don't have to waste your money on an expensive toy, when a $6 Superman costume provides hours of fun. (Actually, I think they prove that we paid too much for the costume, since all he really likes is the cape.)