My Bologna Has a First Name....

It's G.R.O.S.S...
My Bologna has a 2nd name - it's N.A.S.T.Y...

Oh, I love to eat it every day (NOT!)
And if you ask me why I'll SAY....

(see for yourself)...

Holy Motherload of Mold Batman!

It's a common catch 22 around here - I avoid the cleaning of the fridge because I find stuff like this....I find stuff like this because.... (yeah, you get it...)

The running joke in my family is that my dad would just cut off the green stuff and eat it. But it's not really a joke, because seriously, he would. That's what growing up in the depression will do to you (or growing up with 4 girls and one bathroom...surely that has something to do with it).

I'm thinking that my New Year's resolution will have to be to check out ALL the drawers in the fridge when I do the mini-cleanings...though I could have just found the treatment for MRSA right in my very own fridge.

Anyone want to come over for dinner?

Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

and I'm too cheap to turn the fireplace on!!!
the kids were freezing after playing outside and I turned it on for about 10 seconds...

Justin is at a work meeting (well was when I started this post) - and I decided to take a few minutes to catch up on blogging. We had 5 things we were supposed to go to tonight. A conference for Mason (but he did not give me the right info so we missed it,) the zoo lights opening, Justin had another work meeting that he missed and the calling hours for Doug. In case you are not a BTeam blog reader - check out what the moms in her neighborhood made the family:

These are bears made out of Doug's shirts - how incredibly cool is that? One for Sheri and each of the kids. A true treasure.


We got some wacky, crazy, snowy weather again this evening. Ella and Si went out and played in it a bit while I made dinner. Si gave me a bit of a disgusting fright when he walked in saying "blah, guck, blah" and I saw snow and brown goop hanging from his mouth - I'm truly hoping it was just mud.
Ella lost another tooth recently - the tooth fairy was a little late getting to her but we told her Miss T. Fairy does not work on the weekends...


Dinner tonight was pizza and I cut up carrots, radishes and celery. Silas absolutely CHOWS on celery - the kid will say about 20 times "more cel-ry, more cel-ry" and Ella loves radishes and carrots. I cut up REAL carrots, not those watery baby ones - I always forget how much more flavorful real carrots are.

Speaking of dinner, the other night we were all eating dinner and Si had some broccoli on his nose. Justin picked it off the end of his nose and put it on his plate. Silas looked at him (much like the face in the picture below but without red eyes) and said
"why you put my boogie on your plate??"


He's been saying the funniest things lately but most would be Too Much Information for most. Though I will need to blog them eventually so I don't forget them.
He is also doing a very good job with the potty training.

Ella had her Parent-Teacher conference this week. She is going a bang-up job in Kindergarten. of course her teacher LoVeS her..."always as sweet as can be" - I'm going to video the head-spinning-spewing-green-goop thing that she does when she doesn't get her way - to show her teacher...

It's only funny....

Until stool sample collection is required...

Silas has had diarrhea since Friday or Saturday - I called the doctor, told them about the turtle tank water drinking incident and they want to test for salmonella. If it tests positive, they will retest in a couple weeks to make sure it goes away (it should clear out of the system by itself).
Dr. W (aka Mr. Rogers) was really grossed out by Si drinking the water - apparently this is a first in the office.

So, we stopped and got the poop kit yesterday and now we're just waiting around to catch some and drop it off at the doctor's office.

Aren't you glad you read this blog?

Ewwww....gross!

We have the Yertle tank on the kitchen counter right now until Justin can get it back to Mason's room. Ella and Si were having fun watching him this morning and then Justin let them pet the turtle-dude.

Justin left to do some work stuff and a few minutes later I look over to see Silas dipping his hands in the water, and then drinking it - GAG! How gross is that (enlarge the photo and you'll see how gross)?!

Justin ate a worm once when he was a kid so I guess it could be worse...