Talan and I have been enjoying the park lately. I've never taken Tal to the park by himself. He is always the tag-along when we take Ashton. In Virginia he only liked the swings, he couldn't really do anything else. 

Since the weather has been so perfect lately, and since Tal has been really wanting to explore outside I wanted to take him to the park a few times before it gets cold. He is definitely a toddler. Ashton was much more laid back. Talan doesn't give me a chance to sit down. He is always moving. He no longer likes the swings becuase that is way too boring  just sitting there. He practically screamed like I was ending his life when I put him in the swing. No....he's a slide guy now. The entire stay at the park is spent going up the ramp, down the slide, up the ramp, down the slide...repeat until it is time to go home. Sometimes he makes me nervous when he gets too excited and forgets to sit and tries to surf down the slide, but he has so far reached the bottom without a scrape. The best part of his slide addiction is his hair. He has the most amazing static slide hair I've ever seen. 

If I get zits when I'm older then that means Heavenly Father is back-sassing me.

--Ashton

I can't believe I live here

Topeka has made an idiot move. One of those moves that leaves your jaw on the floor, and you picturing Jeff Foxworthy in your head saying "There's your sign". 

Today I was randomly looking at a page in the paper and found the most hysterical article about Topeka's latest 'whoops moment'. This quiz (which I copied out of the paper), designed to test your knowledge of current events by Ric Anderson (of the Topeka Capital Journal), was fantastic. 

QUESTION 1: Which of the following cost the city of Topeka $86,000?

a. Digging a hole and filling it.

b. Removing a strip of concrete from the middle of SW Wanamaker Road for a median project, then discontinuing the project and replacing the strip after retailers along the corridor complained the median would reduce access to their business.

c. There's a difference?

(correct answer: Technically, B)

Question 2: True or false

Question #1 begs for a cheap shot about how the city recently hired a "performance coordinator" for $78,000 to search for ways to make the city government more efficient and effective. 

(correct answer: True. And there you have it.)

Question 3: Which of the following could have been purchased with the amount of money it will cost the city to undo the median work?

a. A three-bedroom, 1370 square foot home in Topeka

b. A 2009Mercedes-Benz E-class sedan

c. An automotive tune-up, repair and maintenance shop in Lenexa.

d. All of the above. 

(correct answer: D, according to various internet sources.)

Question 4: A 63-year-old Hutchinson man was charged monday in connection with drunken driving. What was unusual about the case?

a. The man was arrested while riding a moped. 

b. It was the 11th time the man had been charged with a DUI.

c. The man was on parole from a previous DUI conviction that occured after he ran into a set of fuel pumps last December and set them on fire. 

d. All of the above.

(correct answer: D)

Did she just say that?

For family home evening this last monday, we had a family discussion in order to help my nephew earn a merit badge. We each were assigned by him to talk about a diffrent topic. My 14 year old neice was chosen to talk about what to do in case of a fire or tornado.

This is her plan for a fire:

Step 1: Kick out the closest window. 
Step 2: Throw random crap out the window so the neighbors know you are in distress.
Step 3: Find your cell phone.
Step 4: Hurl yourself out of the window you have previously kicked out. (i will also add that most everyone in the house will have to jump from a second story window.)
Step 5: Run (with our broken limbs since we have just jumped from 30 feet) down the street.

Anyone see any flaws? 
(Love ya Lyndsey)

Today is the day!!!

After a couple weeks of waiting and numerous attemps to tighten a piece of floss around Ashton's slippery tooth it is finally out! He was very brave....well not so much after one kid at school told him she bled all over when she had her tooth forced out with a door, and everyone saying how much it hurt. He didn't want me to pull it out. I gave it one tug and Ashton was immediately pulling the string against me. Then...all the sudden....there was a pop and the string resurfaced. I had a moment thinking..'wow. the string broke...but it doesnt look broken...did I pull that hard?' Good thing Ashton felt the tooth on his tongue. He said it didn't hurt at all and was asking me at 7:45 if it was time to go to bed because he was so excited about the tooth fairy. He won't know until tomorrow but the tooth fairy made a stop at target and decided a new pokemon ds game would be perfect for the first tooth. 

I am pretty peeved because I took a video at every attempt of getting this tooth out. At LEAST 10 videos. Ask me if I have one for when the tooth actually came out...go ahead...I dare you. 

send him back!

Talan learned how to take off his diaper, poop in his bed and then take a nap in it. All this with the lights off! 

Yay me!!

tick toc

Time is running short for Ashton's tooth. We've tried numerous times to evict the pearly white from his mouth. Unsuccessful thus far.  Today, as I was checking the status of Ashton's tooth, I noticed I could fold it forward enough to actually see his gums under his tooth. Also, there is a white tip poking through. 

I gave Ashton until monday night to get the tooth out himself. I told him to wiggle it, twist it, pull it...etc. If it is still in his mouth monday night then we will force that stubborn tooth out using a string and a door. 

Wish him luck! 

Flippin, Arkansas

This just might be my favorite picture ever!

Really?

I got a call from the allergist office. They had the results of Talan's blood test. Here's the shocker....

Talan is SEVERELY ALLERGIC TO PEANUTS...

No-freakin-duh morons. I don't know if he is allergic to anything else because they didn't test for anything else. I was led to believe they were testing for everything, but instead they only tested for the one thing that I already knew was positive. I want to punch him in the face. They made me hold my child down while they stuck a needle in his arm to tell me something I already knew??? 

Where have all the competant doctors gone?

I never thought I'd see the day

Me: "Ashton when you are 12 like Justin are you going to like girls?"

Ashton:"I don't know. Probably"

Me: "do you think Justin likes girls"

Ashton: "yep"

Me: "Do you like girls now?"

Ashton: "Maybe" (this is a big fat yes from Ashton. He thinks he's fooling me.)

Me: "Do you like anyone in your class?"

Ashton: "NO...EWWW"

Me: "Do you like any girls in primary?"

Ashton: "Maybe"

Me: "Do you like Ellina?" (She and Ashton go way back. They used to go to nursery together and play out in the hall)

Ashton: "MAYBE"

he likes a girl!!! SHHH! If you see him don't mention any of this. Otherwise he won't tell me any of this stuff anymore.