Still Hanging Around

Although it has been almost a year since Chase stopped sucking socks, I will occasionally find one of his socks hiding under the furniture. I pulled this one from underneath my bed the other day. Still perfectly folded in the way that he used to suck them. I showed it to Chase and his eyes lit up! He had not forgotten about his beloved socks!

 

If you look closely at the ladder in this window well, you will see another one of his socks amidst the junk. This has been hanging here ever since I can remember. It makes me smile every time I look at it.



Just for kicks, I pulled out the bag of his sucking socks that I have stored in my cedar chest. He had a great night re-uniting with his old friends.

Our New Arrivals

Cuckoo Marans


Gold Sex-links

Black Australorps

Black Sex-link

Rhode Island Reds

Washington D.C.

For Spring break, Scott and I took Taylor and Bennett to Washington D.C. 
To sum it up, we saw a lot of stuff and walked a lot of miles and had a great time doing it!

This is what we saw in 3 days:

Bureau of Engraving & Printing - Very cool to see stack and stacks of money!
International Spy Museum
Ford's Theater
Constitution, Bill of Rights & Declaration of Independence
Museum of Natural History
Museum of Amercian History
Air & Space Museum
All of the Memorials
Tour of the Capitol Building
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - definitely the highlight of the trip for me

If You Don't Have One....

Make One

  

Poor Chasey

This Easter was a rough one for this little guy.  Thursday night he started to throw up and he stayed that way clear through Sunday morning.  He rallied a bit on Saturday, but it didn't last long.

Instead of finding eggs Sunday morning, we took a trip to the InstaCare just to make sure something else wasn't going on.   

Today he woke up feeling MUCH better.  Other than this little afternoon nap, I think he is back to normal.

The Life of a 10 year old

What is your happiest memory?
Our old, old house because I used to go out on the park with my friends. 

Why do you like being 10?
I'm older.

One word to describe you would be? 
Funny

What advice would you give your parents?
Don't make me eat gross stuff.  Increase my allowance.

If you could be any animal, which one would you be and why?
A gorilla.  They are strong.

What do you like to do for fun?
Play the playstation and play with friends and play with Legos.

Tell about a funny time in your life.
When I was over at Koji's house and me and Cooper ran out of ammo and we couldn't fight back.

What is your favorite thing to do?  Why?
Go on vacations.  We can go somewhere new.

What do you love most about your siblings?
They all play with me.

What was the nicest thing you did for someone?
There was a kid at recess and he didn't have any friends and I asked him what was wrong and he said he didn't have anybody to play with so I played with him.

What do you think you will be doing in 10 years from now?
I will be on my mission.

What is your favorite thing to do in the summer?
Play with friends.

What would be the ideal allowance?  Tell me how you would use it?
$15.00 a month.  I would buy toys.

What do you think makes a person good looking?
Hair

Name 2 things we should do as a family on the weekend?
Go see a movie and go do something fun.

What is the grosses thing you can think of?
Mold

What song best describes your work ethic?
Uh.  What does that mean?

Good Thinkin' Tiera

A couple of months ago, I bought this sofa table to put behind my sofa.  Good place to put a sofa table, yes?  As I was thinking about what I wanted on top of it, I remembered I had a couple of lamps that I had stored downstairs since our move that have been waiting for a new home.

I put them on the table and they looked fine.  However,  I had just seen some glass ones at a store that I really liked.  The thought of buying them passed through my head for about a second before I dismissed it.  "Glass lamps on a table with a house full of boys?  No way." 

My previous lamp that I had in the room had been broken from being knocked over so many times.  Plus, the dog had gotten a hold of the cord and had chewed it to bits, so it wasn't even functional.

But I really liked the glass lamps.  So, the now irrational side of my brain thought about buying them again for about 1.8 seconds until the rational side screamed "ARE YOU CRAZY?"
The rational side won.

I put the "gently used" lamps on the table and let it go.

That was a very good decision.

Last night as Chase was trying to get his paper airplane that had gotten stuck behind the table, we heard a large crash.  It wasn't just the lamps that had gotten knocked down, the entire table, lamps and all had come a tumblin' down.  And there was Chase sitting in the middle, slightly stunned at what had just happened.  He was lucky though.  Other than a healthy bruise on his arm that he insisted on putting a band-aid over, he was o.k.

The lamps?  They were just fine.  Scott stood up the table,  picked up the lamps,  straightened the shades and back they went to their original spots.  Just the light bulbs needed replacing.   I'm pretty confident the glass ones would have needed more than new light bulbs.