Squirrels and Stuff

As I was sitting down to write this post, Colin playfully boxed my upper arm and was all, "Your arm is like a punching bag! Except punching bags aren't jiggly, are they Mommy?"

And that, like, totally de-railed my train of thought. (Ah, who am I kidding - that train never even left the station. It's Monday morning, y'all.)

Since I'm having trouble forming a coherent thought - let alone a whole string of them, blog-post-style - I'll just do some random bullet points. Literary rabbit turds, if you will.

- First on the agenda: I took a picture of a squirrel taking a nap on the railing of our back deck. I think it's interesting because, well, I've never seen a squirrel actually nap before. (Admit it, neither have you.) It's a bad-quality photo because I took it with a sucky phone camera, but here it is ...

Crazy, huh? He just sat there for, like, a half-hour or better. Chillin' with his eyes closed. Then he crapped on my deck and moved on. 

- Speaking of crap, I'm having a toilet issue. With my FOUR YEAR OLD, who has been potty trained for a solid two years now. The other day, I picked up a shirt off his floor that reeked of ... sniff, sniff, what's that? ... PISS. Upon further investigation, he admitted that he had indeed peed on the shirt, only offering a vague explanation like, "I was just tired of peeing in the toilet." A couple of days later, the same thing happened again - only this time, the shirt was on his bed! And this morning I walked into the living room, where he had been entertaining himself, to find a wet spot on the floor. All this in the span of a week or so. I've worked through some pretty crazy parenting dilemmas before, but this? Totally leaves me scratching my head. They're not accidents. He doesn't wet the bed at night, or pee in his pants, or anything like that. Developmentally, he's advanced (well, usually, snicker snicker) so I'm puzzled beyond belief at this weird behavior. Any advice? (PS - I'm starting to wonder if he might have been the culprit who peed on my pillow!) 

- I lost two blog followers last week. TWO, y'all. One at a time isn't all that uncommon, but two? Am I starting to suck or something?

- I took this hilarious picture of Cameron a couple of days ago when he somehow got his diaper caught on this knob on the side of my desk chair:

Now that's a seriously stretchy diaper, y'all.

- Finally, my hometown radio station (Y107, Columbia Missouri) is in SECOND PLACE in the Children's Miracle Network "Most Caring Radio Station" contest. The winning station gets a $50,000 donation to the community hospital, which in Columbia's case is the University Hospital. This hospital has played a very important part in the life of my family. It's where my mother works, where my niece spent a big part of her life battling (and beating!) pediatric cancer at two years old, where Curtis was recently hospitalized, and where my grandmother took her last breath. If you have a spare 2 or 3 minutes and an e-mail address, would you pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top go here to vote? (You can do so up to ten times a day!) If you could see me, I'm smiling all sweetly and blinking my eyes in rapid succession. To show you that, like, I really would appreciate it if you'd vote.

Okay. I think that's all the rabbit turds I can muster at this point. Time to hit the shower and shave the pits ... I'm tired of the hair getting caught in my waistband. ;)


Comments

  1. Squirrel taking a nap? The peeing stuff made me laugh! The other day my friend's little boy peed on the floor and said "Mummy, I made a snowman"?!

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  2. I had no idea diapers could stretch that much. Amazing!

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  3. Wait...you mean peeing around the house is wrong? Let me write that down...

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  4. I think it is a boy thing. When my brother was 4 he and his friend would pee into the street. Not sure why...

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  5. You create the greatest literary rabbit turds evah. Thanks for the chuckle - and its good to know that I'm not the only one who will leave my child in an uncomfortable position just cuz'I think its funny and feel that I need a picture. . .

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  6. Squirrels, boys peeing all over the place, and bullets described as rabbit turds ... ha! My kinda gal! I am now a new follower - those 2 you lost can go suck it! :o)

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  7. I am going to laugh about that picture of Cameron for at least another hour. SO funny.

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  8. "I was just tired of peeing in the toilet"?? I hope that line NEVER comes out of my child's mouth!

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  9. Hold the phones! Columbia, MO? Does this make you a Mizz-ewwwww fan? Say it ain't so!!! You may lose your third follower this week! ;) (i'm sorta kidding.)

    Rock Chalk!

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  10. Thanks for the comment, LOL. I wouldn't have unsubscribed anyway! Your blog is just too funny! :)

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  11. I will never be able to look at bullet points without thinking of Bugs Bunny's relatives any more.

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  12. That picture is hilarious! It will probably show up someone else's blog sometime.

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  13. Such a cute squirrel pic! No, I've never seen one napping either. They're usually busy running up and down the tree trunks around our place.

    I wonder if Colin's peeing has anything to do with the fact that both of his little brothers still do that? Sometimes it's lonely at the top! ;o)

    Cam looks like he's patiently waiting for you to get through taking pictures so he can get some help. LOL I'm definitely sending this one to my work e-mail to share with my friends!

    Yep, you can bet I'm voting for Y107 to get the award! We know firsthand how important good hospital care is, don't we?!

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  14. LOL I love it! And how crazy is the pic of Cameron's diaper?! That is SERIOUSLY stretchy! And you are right, I've never gotten to witness a squirrel napping, so thanks for offering me my first glimpse! Brady and I got a good laugh out of the pee story, hehe.

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  15. I also have not seen a squirrel taking a nap but I guess that they have to nap sometime.
    Cameron's pic is so funny and it is amazing how the diaper stretched and didn't fall apart.

    I have been trying to vote everyday for the "Most Caring Radio Station" which in this case isn't the one that I listen to but it is helping out a great hospital and yes if it wasn't for the University Hospital then Becky wouldn't be a 15 year cancer suvivor and going to graduate high school in 2011!

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  16. What would make someone unfollow you? Could it be the rabbit turds? LOL!

    Is unfollow a word?

    One really stretchy diaper. You should send that pic to the makers and maybe they will send you a whole pack. I did that once in high school with Wrigley's by sending them a thanks for making great gum letter and they sent me 5 whole packs of gum. I was excited about my FREE gum. I liked bragging about it too.

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  17. I did the same thing with my blog, called it "drive by blogging" - while back.

    as far as the peeing thing, don't worry, went through the exact same thing with my son child, and know of others who have too. husband said simply, it is because boys all the sudden find it fun to pee, and will experimently do so. Once we caught Dallas at it, it ended with a stern talking to and a few threats.

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  18. AHHH boys, I think in some part of their life or shall we say brains they develop what I like to call the "super soaker" gene. I truly believe it's what is responsible for their random peeing issues. Some develop it later in life...i.e. the Hubs who will walk out the back door instead of to the bathroom to pee in the bushes.
    They get a kick out of it, no matter the age.
    Maybe you could suggest a tree? Then you won't have the super soaker tainting the inside, just pissed off neighbors outside bahaha.

    Stopping by from SITS

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  19. Ah hah! You live in Columbia! Cool...I love it there, I visit it often to see family. I'm in STL.

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  20. LMAO. Seriously, you are hilarious. I love SITS for helping me find great reads. I'm impressed at the stretchness of those Pampers. Hubby worked in the diapers group in college. Even he was impressed. You've gained a follower. Now you are only down one :)

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  21. That's the stretchiest diaper I have ever seen. That picture needs to win some award. It's priceless!

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  22. That is THE most bizzare diaper photo I've ever seen!

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  23. Well cool - of course I'll vote. I lived and worked in Columbia, MO several years ago! Your rabbit turds are better than most people's entire blogs!

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