Sunshine!

[rowangolightly]

I'm taking full advantage of the fact that although it is supposed to rain all week, it did not last night and it is not this morning. Surely, it'll be muddy but I'm gonna go play in my garden!

But first, I wanted to share a funny that I got via email this morning, you know, one of those friends who sends the "you're my friend and you can prove it by sending this to all your friends and back to me" stuff which I simply delete. *sigh* Absolute sweetheart of a lady but eventually I'll have to gently tell her to please not send those; my friendship doesn't require that sort of proof. Hey, at least she doesn't send the ones with the threats of bad luck at the end!

But this one made me laugh right out loud several times. It reminded my of my ex's nephew, Talley, who once put toast with peanut butter inside the VCR and who also, after showing the hammer to his Mommy and inquisitively saying, "AHbubrumowuba?" to her and getting an absent, "Yes dear" took a hammer to the glass-top coffee table. He'd be about 15 now, I guess.

Anyway....

you also find out interesting things when you have sons, like...

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fil! l a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not
strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it's lready too late.
8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even
though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.

10.) Certain Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a 4- year old boy.

11.) 'Play Dough' and 'microwave' should not be used in the same sentence.

12.) Super Glue is forever.

13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15.) VCR's do not eject Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20.) The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24.) 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids.

25.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

Comments

[ztrooper.livejournal.com]

first time I saw that one, I wanted to try the mix. 8)

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

others, from my own experience: (and many of these look awfully familiar)
The neighbor's ripe tomatoes on the vine make fantastic blood for villains when you have a stick sword.

grampas, smoke bombs, little boys and groundhog burrows make for interesting gossip.

Moms can break the sound barrier when they hear "Catch me Mommy, I'm flying!"

[lilychantvestry.livejournal.com]

Mine is a MacGuyver type way of dealing with boys.

"Duct tape will fix anything." Including keeping a "Houdini" in his diaper.

My husband wants to build a Velcro wall with matching suit so he can hang our son on the wall. I don't blame him for thinking that way sometimes. But I don't think DHS would approve of a Velcro wall.

I'm sure that some of these things will happen to me. My little boy is ornery enough (without Daddy's help).

See you on Mother's Day. Bringing the hubby and son along this time. You won't believe how big my son has gotten.

[lord-enigma.livejournal.com]

My little houdini figured out how to open doors not long ago. So we got the bright idea of getting one of those childproof door handles. He figured that out after two days.

So, we put a dresser in front of his door at night (his door opens inwards). He learned to simply push over the dresser and climb out.

We stacked two baby gates inside the door, before the dresser, and he just climbed them.

We went back to the dresser thing, and propped a metal rod under one drawer and against the base of the far wall -- he crawled under the dresser.

So we decided to cover the base with blankets, and secure them by the weight of the dresser. SOMEHOW he got out.

I tried securing the door (no dresser now) with some string, and tying it to another door. NO such luck, as he just broke the string.

So we swapped doornobs with the bathroom, lock on outside, and it's been great ever since. Until, of course, he figures out how to pick locks. :P

[mljm.livejournal.com]

I'm so very thankful Jami can't read at all and Katie is still learning to read. They don't need any more ideas of how make our lives interesting. At this moment they are playing Barbies together. A mostly quiet and non-destructive activity.

[cplady.livejournal.com]

I could add a couple more...like climbing onto the roof through the bathroom window gives you many more paintball targets to shoot at.

I've seen that one several times over the past few years, and each time there is something else added to it.

BTW, there is a commercial on TV with a father trying to take care of 4 toddlers...one who goes into the bathroom with a watch and you suddenly hear the toilet flush and "uh oh".

When Gordon and I first saw that commercial we about died laughing because anytime we heard "uh oh" from Ian in any context, it was generally bad news.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

May the Gods bless all parents with bright curious, and methodical small children.
Remember child abuse happens, when the parents loose the ability to take a deep breath, before reacting,.

Ya I think the clorox and what???? Now that's cool LMAO

[kitchenelf.livejournal.com]

OPPS!!!

I thought that was a check list!

BTW it DOSE make alot of smoke!! and I can start a fire with flint and steal

[elisedevescy.livejournal.com]

*sigh* do you know I can recall several of those happening?