What is a party pooper?

Today, we discovered that it is a 2 year old boy who thinks it is appropriate to poop in the backyard like the dogs do, only at someone else's house, during a graduation party...

This morning's list of Xanman-dos is brought to you by: Why you little @$%#!

Xander's Sunday morning list of accomplishments:
1) wake parents up at 4am - check
2) guzzle ice cold milk on empty stomach - check
3) puke - check
4) shower - check
5) crash on livingroom floor - check
6) have breakfast - check
7) let indoor cat outside after being told not to - check
8) take bath to wash off breakfast - check
9) dump ENTIRE bottle of dish soap in bath - check
10) drink blue bath water ensuring the runs for later - check
11) break out in hives - check
12) get soap rinsed off and mild lotion rubbed on - check
13) miss regularly scheduled meeting - check
14) use powdered sugar as talcum powder - check
15) get powdered sugar all over the diningroom -check
16) while Daddy is cleaning up powdered sugar, leave unflushed 'present' in toilet - check
17) dump whole roll of toilet paper in toilet bowl - check
18 get dressed for meeting - check
19) crawl under the bed to get the cat - check
20) get cat hair all over suit - check
21) get scratched by cat - check
22) get strapped into car seat - check
23) fall asleep in car waiting for 2nd meeting - checK

Hold it! And say wha...?

Today was a busy day; We had a Xanman-do (or don't) AND a Serenism. Today's Xanman-do is brought to you by : Hold it!

So we have been attending the convention this weekend and took the kids to play in the grass at lunch. No sooner did I leave Daddy and Xander alone and Xander dropped his pants to water a tree in front of a crowd during one of the most dignified occasions of the year.

Tonight's Serenism is brought to you by. "Say whaaaaaa?"

Penny says to Daddy: We're out of toothpaste!
Daddy: I'll get you some more, but we will have to treat it like the toilet paper.

Seren, in the middle of eating dinner, stops her chewing mid-bite and waits for the explanation of how toothpaste could possibly be like toilet paper. Understanding her concern, Daddy explained that they go through toothpaste so fast it would have to be rationed like the toilet paper.

Seren seemed relieved that toothpaste had no other connection to toilet paper.

Out with the old and in with the new

Its been awhile since I've posted about Earl and Grimmy.

Those of you long time readers might remember that Earl is my so called "four letter word."  It is with a heavy heart that I say Earl and Grimmy are no more.

We had to put Earl down in May. He developed some sort of bladder crystals. No one seems to have truly pinpointed the cause of bladder crystals but the vet told me that it's very treatable among cats.

So I spent $500 getting his bladder unblocked at the vet. I spent another $500 or $600 for him to be monitored for 4 days at the vet. I spent $50 on a special bag of cat food to change Earls diet.  After one more x ray it was apparent Earl had a very thick layer of crystals in his bladder and he would need an operation to scrape the crystals out of his bladder, amongst other surgical procedures befitting a male cat with this condition.

In order to have the further surgeries done the price was $2,000 or more. The veterinarian kept telling me it was treatable and I believe them because I know of other cats who have this issue and their owners keep them alive. What I didn't realize was when the vet says the condition is treatable they mean it is if I have gold lined pockets or if I I am a veterinarian myself.

So, the simple decision was to put him down not that was the decision I wanted to make. If I had the $2,000 I truly would have spent it on him because I loved that cat. And I even pulled out a loan from my 401k to do it but the funds just weren't coming in at the times that I needed them. 

Now I'm thinking it worked out for the best because Grimmy came down with the same condition. There was no way I could afford to do the procedure to both cats. Grimmy was Earl's brother so I half expected him to come down with the same thing although I had hoped he wouldn't. Sadly we had to put him down on Sunday.

When we did put Grimmy down, I planned on rescuing two kittens from the animal shelter because I didn't feel it was fair to ask my young children ages 10, 7, 4, 2 to deal with this much grief in such a short span of time.

I have attached pictures of both Grimmy and Earl on their last day and pictures of the new kittens we got. The black and white one being Domino and the tabby striped cat, his name is George.

Tonight's Xanman-do is brought to you by: Xanman don't!

So, the kids and I were at the pool tonight having a great time. Then Xander belched yhis loud, smelly burp, pointed at me and yelled in front of God and everyone,  "YOU FARTED!"

He is *such* a boy.

Today's Xan-man-do is brought to you by : Fire in the hole!

Today's Xan-man-do is brought to you by : Fire in the hole!

So, today, Xander came running COMMANDO into the room where I was saying something I thought was: Pee-Pee a spider!

So, I asked him, "Do you need to go pee?"
He muttered tentatively,  "Yeah..."
Me: "Was there a spider? "
Xander: "?"
Me: "Ok, we'll go potty and we'll smash it."
Xander: "NO NO NO NO NO! "
Mommy:"?"
Daddy yells from another room: "Run him a cold bath, quick! He unpacked the iron and scorched the carpet,  probably hurt himself! "
Mommy asked Xander: "Did you hurt yourself? "
Xander: Yeah (then repeats what he'd been saying all along but is now undenibly clear) FIRE IN THE PEE-PEE!

Tonight's Penny Thought is brought to you by: BUZZ OFF!

Penny to Mommy: We should build a smacking machine just for smacking flies. It's so we don't have to smack them ourselves.