And the Sesame Street word of the day is...

When I got home from work today, Paige cornered me in the kitchen.

"So today, they..."

Never a good start to a story.

So today Paige was giving Luke a bath. Levi and Noah were playing a game on the computer. Since they typically sit like little zombies glued to the glow of the liquid crystal display, she figured they wouldn't get into too much trouble while Luke was getting scrubbed.

I believe it was at this point in the story that she paused with the qualifier "Now before you get too upset, nothing got broken."

Really not a good way to start a story.

As Paige walks out to the playroom, she spots the boys.

Still at the computer.

But with a spray bottle.

And using it.

After yelling some version of "WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!" both boys made a beeline for their room as fast as their terrified little legs would carry them. Paige attempted to clean up the mess, and then went in to talk to them. They claimed that they were "cleaning the computer for daddy." She explained that they were not allowed to clean the computer, or anything for that matter, without asking. They do not get to play any computer games for 1 week. They were told that they could have broken the computer, and that dad would have been very mad if it was broken.

Levi offered money. Not because he felt sorry, and wanted to pay for the damages. He said that he wanted to "give mom money so she would like him again." We have apparently instilled some very odd values in that kid.

Noah, after considering what could have happened, declared that "it could have been quite a predicament!"

Any guess as to what the Sesame Street word of the day was last week?

Of course, after hearing this tale, I went upstairs to check on the damage. The monitor was most definitely not "not broken." It looked something like this:


When I tilted the monitor, water ran out of the corner...

And with water in the monitor switches, the monitor started randomly scrolling through the menu and changing display settings. Lovely.

So yeah... dad was very mad. Instead of getting anything useful accomplished tonight, I got to disassemble a monitor instead.

I attempted to massage the water out from between the panes of glass. I could actually push it around and watch it moving. I managed to push most of the lines off the screen, but couldn't get rid of the big green and blue booger stuck at the bottom.

At the end it looked something like this.

Although as I sit here and type, I am literally watching the little colors in the corner move and shift. Who knows what rainbow of fruit colors will have appeared on the screen by tomorrow morning.

Grrrrrrrr..........