Well, have I got a great story about my "wonderful" children for you...
The other day when I tried to use my laptop, I discovered that the cord input was covered in something icky - which turned out to be soda. See, we were in Des Moines this past weekend, just the kids and me. we met my parents down there for my mom's birthday. I treated them to a weekend at a hotel with me and the kids (not in the same room, I'm not that cruel). Then on Saturday night we went to see the musical, Jersey Boys. If you haven't seen it, you really should. It was awesome!
Anyway, at first Cameron was supposed to come with us. Then it turns out he was on call. He knew he was on call when I made the reservations, it seems, but thought he would be able to trade out of call. So, he was also supposed to find me a sitter to watch the two younger boys since I wasn't going to take them to the musical - if you have seen it, you know why, the language is atrocious. Its so bad that I wouldn't have even taken Grace if I had known, but I didn't (know) and I did (take her), which is reallly beside the point. So since Cameron's friend who lives in Des Moines couldn't find a sitter, Ryan had to stay home from the musical (by "home", I mean, at the hotel) to watch the boys. I wasn't comfortable leaving just grace with them since she's only 10.
So, when I get home from the musical (and by "home", I again mean, the hotel), around 10:30, Caleb is sound asleep, Luke is almost asleep and Ryan is playing on my ipad, which I suspect is what he did the entire night. I suspect this because as I was walking around our hotel room, there were pizza crusts on the floor, pizza boxes strewn everywhere, and I happened to step into a puddle of something which I later discovered was Coke! I asked Ryan how it got there and he had no idea. It seems that an entire cup of coke was spilled all over the floor and he never noticed (or looked up from the ipad). It wasn't until I got home and needed to charge my laptop that I discovered the 'icky' substance on the bottom of my laptop and also on the cord - and also on the connection between the charger and the computer!!
So... I had to go to the computer store downtown to get a new cord, which they were out of at first, and just got in yesterday. I also had to get a new laptop battery, which I would like to blame on the boys, but is my fault because I didn't know that it was actually good to let a computer battery go all the way down before you recharge it!!
The worst part of the whole issue with replacing the battery wasn't even the cost, it was the fact that cameron has been telling me for years the battery run all the way down was actually good for it! So I had to come home and tell him this! (after this I didn't have the heart to tell him how much it cost to replace it!)
Now, I am including a picture below of the culprit. As I hear the story, he is the one who spilled and then didn't clean up the coke, but who could possibly hold anything against a kid who has a face like this? I can hardly stand to discipline the kid.
(as a completely random side note, cameron and I are reading a parenting book together called, Have a New Kid by Friday. It's a great book and we both are learning a lot from it, but cameron is better at actually doing the stuff in the book. I take one look into this kid's eyes and it's over for me.)
