Sleeping Beauty

My nine year old specifically asked me to take a certain picture of him and then blog about it. A future writer? Maybe - of course if he takes after his daddy or me, he won't really have much of a chance. Oh, and I should say that the picture is totally staged. A future story teller (i.e.liar)? Maybe - but I certainly hope not!




I should say that the hammock is so much fun! My dad gave it to us months - maybe even a year or 2 - ago and it has been in the garage all that time. Easter weekend the boys begged their daddy to put it up in the back yard and he did. It is really fun, I must say! A big thanks to Papa and Mimi!!

Not so silly

Ah, the joy of silly putty. Every kid loves their silly putty, right? It comes in that cute small red egg and can be rolled and shaped into 1,000 things.

Silly putty, however, has been outlawed in my home. Forever. At least for my 9 year old. And here is why:

This picture is not the best since it was taken with my phone, but you get the "picture"! This is blue silly putty grounded into the carpet about one year ago - never to come out.

As I said, this was about a year ago and I had almost forgotten the incident. Almost.

So Lu and I were at the store the other day and he wanted to get some silly putty. I said sure! Then he asked if we could get some for Brother (this is what he calls B which I prefer to Bubba which is what he called B when he was younger) and I said sure. Obviously I had forgotten last years incident. But only for a moment.


2 blissful days passed and all was well in our silly putty world. Until today. When I went to change the sheets on their beds and found this:

Yes, friends, that is silly putty. Grounded into his comforter. That comforter was brand new in November. Not so new now.