It Ain't a Joke, But it's funny . . .

This morning Erik wanted to wear his bow tie to church instead of a regular tie. He couldn't find it though, so he enlisted Mom & Dad to look. It wasn't in his dresser drawer where I had last put it & it was not in the coat pocket his Dad had last told him to put it in when out of the house. So we searched. That is until I hear Erik telling his Dad, "Oh yeah. It went down the toilet."

No kidding!! He finally remembered that it had fallen in the toilet this last week so he flushed it. He was not happy to find out that it is GONE! Spencer could not stop laughing.

I chuckle in quiet because it is so funny, but Erik was sad & had to learn the lesson to not flush things down the toilet. It was an accident that it fell in, but he still flushed it. I don't understand being 5. When I explained that if he had told us before flushing it maybe it could have been saved & cleaned but now it is gone . . . well I think he will be really careful about the toilet. So sometime this week I will take him & his piggy bank money to the store for a new bow tie. He wants one so that he can pretend to be a "Super Secret Spy" like Pablo on Backyardigans. Okay I'm still chuckling "Oh yeah. It went down the toilet."

Photo Op

I realized that I have not taken many pictures lately & when I have the boys are usually not together in the pictures. So here are 3 pictures from yesterday.

A Good Time

Thanksgiving was great! It was so nice to have Grammy & Sir with us. Unfortunately their nights weren't too comfortable on our floor (their air mattress went flat). We'll work on having comfortable sleeping for our guests. But we loved having them here! Sloane and Jeff hosted the Thanksgiving Dinner. Thank you both! It was very enjoyable and plenty to eat.

So with Thanksgiving over the Christmas countdown begins. Erik is keeping track. I don't know what he's going to do for Christmas break. I know he will be happy to go back to school after 2 weeks.

Here's an idea of what Christmas break might be like, at our house:

By the time I thought to video Erik I missed some of his better tricks. Thank you Sir for the inspiration for Erik's tricks :) We had a blast (as a family) watching your video link:28 Apr 09: A Danny MacAskill's biking video of difficult biking tricks, including jumping onto spiked fences and along rooftops, has had more than 2.5m hits on YouTube in a week. http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=21337502001

We were awed by Danny MacAskill! What precision, strength (and as we pointed out to Erik) and how many times he must of had to practice & taken many falls. WOW!