Puke and Bugs

So Jason set this up as a way for me to communicate (vent). I think he wants to save money on phone bills or something. So today would be a good day to vent about to my family. Monday morning I awoke to a foul smell coming from the boys room. Levi and thrown up and was sleeping in it. That began the day of throwing up another two times for him. I thought we had lived through it all and then at 7:30 at night after returning from a nice family walk with three kids bathed and in pjs Noah throws up all over the place. He too proceeded to vomit two more times. We put the boys to bed and hoped for the best for Tuesday. Well, today began better than Monday did, but only about 20 mins after being up Ella began to throw up.

After cleaning her up I scooped up the bathroom rug that he had puked on and she said "Mom a bug!" Since the baby duck in the back yard incident I have begun to listen more carefully to what my three year old is telling me. Sure enough, there was a bug running for cover across my bathroom floor. A SCORPION!!!!!!!!! Nice. He was under the bathmat that Ella was standing on and that I was kneeling on next to her as she vomited. He ran out when I lifted the rug and hid in the corner of my bathroom. I couldn't get to him with a shoe b/c he was all coiled up in the corner. So out of frustration and fear I had Ella run and get the phone and I called Jason at Bible Study and demanded that he come home to kill it. (he was only 5 min away, it wasn't that irrational of a request) He laughed at me as I described my dilemma of not being able to get it out of the corner and my fear that it would jump at me. **They run very fast in a freaky scuttling manner that is not natural and very frighting to your nerves.** He told me to get his big old knife out of the bed stand (Don't ask, I'm sure McGuyver had one in his night stand too) and stab it. So in the end, I did. In fact I cut it into a million pieces. I had to make sure it was dead. I am protecting my children and all. It is still in my bathroom, I refuse to touch it or get near it as it may be filled with venom. :) Jason can clean up the sad pile of remains when he gets home as punishment for making me live in the desert where these types of creatures roam freely.



Other than that, and Ella vomiting yet another time, it has been a typical day at the Addinks!

Comments from the fearless husband...
- I originally suggested the shotgun for dispatching the beast. Paige didn't approve.
- Paige now wants to change the carpet, tile, and paint in the entire house to colors that contrast with scorpions... :)

Haircuts

This one is just for Luke Simmons... :)

Levi was ok with the haircut...



Noah? Not a big fan...

Pictures from back in February.

Ewww

Yesterday Ella, Olivia, and all the boys were out side playing and I was unloading the dishwasher. Ella kept coming in to show me her treasures from the back yard... a seashell, a rock, some grass (yes, she brought in two blades of grass) all these items were dubbed her treasures. Then she came in and told me that there was a baby duck that hatched from an egg in the yard. I was trying to get the kitchen picked up as Abby was due to arrive any moment, so I was only half listening to her. I poo-whoed her and said something like "oh really?" and kept on working. So, Abby comes and I let her in. I show her and the kids to the sliding door and invite McKenna to come and play with all the kids in the yard. Noah comes running up to me "look mommy!" I put out my hand and he flops in a dead baby bird. Ahhhhh. There was the little duck that had just hatched from its egg that Ella had told me about! Nice greeting for Abby and her kids! :)

Next time I better listen more carefully to what she has found in the yard. Last week she told me there was a pile of stinky and she was right. Some nice cat left his treasure behind in the yard. I listened to her then, I guess I was expecting a baby duck in the back yard. :) -(no, it wasn't a duck)

In the zone...

So Paige ordered a portable DVD player from Ebay, and got four sets of wireless head phones. All in preparation for the big trip to Michigan this summer. We tried it out tonight. To our amazement, they all would wear the headphones. Not only that, but they remained frozen in this exact position for nearly 15 minutes before they got restless. Now we just need to work with them every day until they can stare at that little bitty screen for 32 hour uninterrupted.

Some warning system in our brains has obviously stopped functioning since we are even considering this trip...

Safety first!

The boys were thoroughly excited about their new safety goggles from Lowes...

The eldest had a few, umm.... issues...

First post!

We'll see how this works. I figured Paige could use it to share pictures and stuff with family...