Day 18 {what happened to the TV?}

So lately the television keeps getting a weird message on it. After playing with the remote I finally looked over at the satellite receiver and discovered Ty had puled open the little door and pulled out the smart card that makes it work. I had to search for almost  40 minutes trying to find the card to put back in it.  I finally found it buried in behind a shelf.  I guess Bill had taken the tape off I had on it for some reason and Ty discovered how to open it and pull it out.   So my solution to this was to stick another piece of tape on it.  Unfortunately I could not find Bill's electrical black tape ( blends in and he doesn't see it)  so I used my best friend....duct tape!  I do tend to use duct tape for a LOT of stuff.  I think I need to stop watching the red green show ;)    Well it did stop him for a little bit.......about a whole hour!  I think I need to come up with something else.  I found it in the bathroom later on.

Later on I caught him right in the act!  Only this time he had moved over a foot and was attempting to shove a dvd into the wii.    This is getting to be a big game for him, time to figure out somewhere else to put this stuff.  At the moment I have no CD rom drive on the computer because he shoved a disc in there and it is stuck shut. What else will this child break before I can get a bigger house with more room to put things up?

Day 17 {sinus pain}

I had a very boring day today and the kids drove me nuts all day. I took absolutely no pictures till about 20 minutes ago when I realized I still had not picked up my camera. When did I think of this? When I was in the bathroom for the 4th time that day doing yet another sinus rinse. I seem to have gotten yet another sinus infection. I do at least 2 sinus rinses everyday ( more in the past few days) and use my prescription nasal spray but it still hurts and bugs me. I must say I have gotten used to shooting water in one nostril and out the other.....although it was gross at first it really does provide relief :)

Day 16 {magic show}

Today Xander decided to take his magic kit he got for Christmas and give us a magic show.  He set everything up on the table and started doing magic for us.



Here is the little owl in the box.....

And now it's gone!   He's good isn't he?

And later on they went outside to play...I looked outside to find them with a plastic croquet mallet trying to bang the ice off the GT.  

Day 15 {Thirsty}

Apparently I do not give my child enough to drink during the day.  This is what I caught on camera this morning, Xander left the empty milk carton on the table.  Ty tried to get the last few drops out of it.

Then for the rest of the day he kept going in and drinking Hooch's water out of the bowl....sometimes with a cup other times just sticking his head in.  He also likes to just play in it.

Day 14 {homework}

Today I had to finish up my homework assignment for my class and get it into my teacher.   I had to try to get a image with more than one person in it and left this one to do till today.  But since the only other person in the house was Ty I improvised and used Hooch as well.

 I had fun doing these assignments it gave me a great chance to just point and shoot at whatever my little heart desired. One of the assignments was to take a low key, high key and high contrast image.   I had fun with this one since it was a bit more challenging for me.   I admit I totally stole Shannon's idea for my high contrast image though.....Thanks!   So here are those images...I won't bore you with all the rest of my boring shots of things around my house!

Day 13 {Potato?}

Today I spent the day chasing Ty from one room to the next.  Its seems every time I turned my back he was finding something else to get in to.  My cupboards seemed to be a big fascination for him today.   I think it may be time for some more childlocks :)

And then I tried to make potato soup.  I turned my back to go grab a knife to peel with and when I came back to the table found this.  The piece he bit spit out onto the table!  Didn't stop him from playing with the potatoes though, 10 minutes later I went into the bathroom and came back to every single one of my peeled potatoes all over the kitchen floor.   It was just one of those days :)

Day 12 {what is that smell?}

Today I spent the day with my camera glued to my hip.  I have a whole bunch of pictures to take for my photography class, I will not share them all here since they are a whole lot of random pictures of weird stuff.  I will however share one I caught on camera this morning.  I was doing dishes and Ty somehow managed to find him self a milk crate and use it as a stool to reach the sink.  He was trying to be helpful, but just kept pushing me out of the way to stick his hands in the sink and  say "hot" when he put his hands in the water.  Well it took quite a while but I did manage to get the dishes done.









After I was done the dishes I noticed a strange smell in the kitchen still.  After searching everywhere for the cause of it I finally opened the oven and discovered that Bill had left a broiler pan filled with grease and two hamburgers still on it in there!  EWWWW  So after disposing of the hamburgers and washing the pan the kitchen started smelling a little better :)  After that I went to get a nice cup of coffee and ended up having to use a travel mug with no lid.  ALL of my mugs seem to have disappeared!  I looked all around the house and can't find any of them .  Then I look in the cupboard and discovered I only have 2 glasses ( not plastic kids cups) left!  I swear three weeks ago I had about 15 of them!  I'm not really sure where all my cups have gone but I have a sneaking suspicion that Tyler and a garbage can may be involved.

So out I go to the grocery store and while I was there I bought myself 2 new coffee mugs because I was not really liking drinking my coffee out of a travel mug with no lid!    Aren't they pretty?  And BIG too!

Oh I also bought a new febreeze candle and some Air wick refills to help with the kitchen smell and oven cleaner  :)