This calls for a trip to Home Depot

Around 3:00 am on Saturday morning Eric got up to use the bathroom. I heard a cracking or breaking sound, but I didn't think too much of it because I was pretty much asleep. When Eric came back to bed he said, "I broke the toilet seat." I just laughed and commented on the sound I heard and then fell back asleep. This is what I woke up to:

Nice. How does that happen?? Looks like we'll be getting a new toilet seat.

That evening a friend and his 4 year old daughter stopped by to visit. I had to use the bathroom, so of course the 4 year old had to also. Even though she assured me that since we are both girls it's okay to use the bathroom together, I made her wait her turn. After they left I tried to go into the bathroom to turn the light off that she had left on and I couldn't get in. She had locked the door. "No problem," I thought. I have used metal hangers to unlock bathroom doors at my parents' house many times. But it didn't work. So then Eric tried. Then we both tried a paper clip. Then Eric attempted to lock and then unlock our bathroom door because they have the same locks. He couldn't get that one open either. (Don't worry, he left the door open during this process.)

We were on our way to another friend's house for the night so we left the door locked. Our friends were kind enough to give us a roll of toilet paper because we were out in our bathroom and all the extra tp is kept in the locked bathroom. When we got home that night, after a few unsuccessful attempts to open the door, Eric finally sawed off the door handle and drilled through the center to pop the lock. All of this was done while Kaylin slept in her room only a few feet away. I cannot believe that she didn't wake up.


Looks like we need a new door handle too. We're also going to buy one for our bathroom since we couldn't get that one unlocked either. We don't want Kaylin locking herself in the bathroom and not being able to open the door herself and getting stuck in there.

So if you need us tonight, we'll be at Home Depot.

Trunk-or-Treat

Last night was our ward's Trunk-or-Treat. We had a great time.

Kaylin the octopus

I was the tooth fairy and Eric was a basketball player (how creative ;-))

Kaylin and her boyfriends: Jaron the dinosaur, Carter the goldfish, and Clayton the lobster

My laurels looking oh so fabulous. For all you Office fans, the girl on the far right burnt her foot on a George Foreman grill and then wrapped it with bubble wrap :-)

Chicken legs

So I don't think that I have chicken legs, but apparently the shoe companies do. I cannot find a pair of tall dark brown boots that fit me in the calf. Ugh! My parents got me a cute pair for my birthday, but they were of course too big in the calf. I had to return them. I have checked every store in Marysville which includes the outlet mall and I have checked the entire Alderwood Mall. Nordstroms had a pair that fit me but they were UGLY. I know plenty of people who are skinnier than me, including a few that I met while boot shopping. Are we destined to not be able to wear boots? They put elastic in a lot of the boots so people with larger legs can fit in them more easily, but there's no way to make them smaller! I really want some boots so I can expand my winter church wardrobe. HELP!!

Is that safe to eat??

Today I made some baby food for Kaylin. I did apples first because they're so simple. They smell very yummy and taste good too. Hopefully Kaylin likes them. It wasn't hard. All I had to do was chop up some apples, simmer them with a little water for 20 minutes, blend them up, pour them into ice cube trays, and stick them in the freezer. I got a whole tray full out of three small apples. I checked out some baby food books at the library and am planning to try a few "dinner" type recipes. They're recipes for stuff similar to what we eat anyway, one is almost identical to taco soup, yum! We're having lasagna for dinner tonight, I might blend some up for Kaylin. She's not into much texture, so we'll see how that goes.

New hobby

Since I don't have enough to do or enough hobbies, I decided to take up a new one. A friend in our ward makes FABULOUS jewelry. She makes tons of earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Two weeks ago she took my friend Laura and me shopping to buy beads and other supplies and then we went to her house to make stuff. We went to her house again yesterday to make more. I had to leave early because Kaylin was super tired and fussy and wouldn't take a nap there. I was bummed because I was having so much fun and I wanted to keep working. So after Kaylin's nap we went to the store to buy a few more necessities so I could keep working on my jewelry at home. Here are three of my creations packaged up and ready to give as gifts.

Just in case you needed more proof that I'm a nerd

Yesterday Jenn sent me a link to a BYU math professor's blog entry. He wrote about trying to help his daughter with rounding and how he did such a horrible job and didn't deserve to be a professor of mathematics. The problem in his example was "round 16,504 to the nearest thousand". First of all, I'm a nerd because I remember the number after reading the entry once. Secondly, and most importantly, I'm a nerd because after getting up with Kaylin at 12:30 am I laid awake for at least half an hour pondering how I would teach rounding to Kaylin. I wanted to sleep, I craved sleep, but my mind was racing with object lessons, investigations, and conversations we could have. So yes, proof that I'm a nerd. QED.

A flat (more like exploded) tire

I was not feeling well at all last night. I went to bed just after 8:00. Eric stayed up with Kaylin and put her to bed after 10:00 in hopes that she would sleep in late so I could get more rest. His plan worked, Kaylin slept in until 11:15!! I hope she continues to sleep in as she gets older. I needed to go grocery shopping before Eric came home for lunch because we were out of lunch food (i.e. frozen pizza). Kaylin and I were finally out of the house by noon. I was feeling a little rushed since Eric normally comes home between 12:30 and 1:30. And although I still didn't feel well, going to the store was better than trying to come up with something to make for lunch. While on the off-ramp of the freeway I started hearing this really loud, awful noise. At first I thought it was the pavement because work is being done on it. But the noise continued when I got to the nice pavement. And the car started to smell like burnt rubber (which I also attributed to the road work) and shake. On the short drive to the store from the freeway off-ramp I realized that there was definitely something wrong with my car. It was shaking a lot and making the most terrible noise. I thought it was the engine and that all four tires were going to fall off. I drove slowly into the parking lot and a guy was looking at me all weird. Judging by his expression, I thought I might be dragging a body under my car. I stopped and rolled my window down and looked at him expectantly. He said, "Did you know you have a flat tire? It's flatter than heck! You'd better park your car." I said, "No, I didn't know that. Thank you." And I felt like an idiot. It didn't feel like what I would think a flat tire should feel like. I called Eric to come rescue me. Thankfully Eric works only 10 minutes from the store. So Eric came to save me and Kaylin and I did our grocery shopping while Eric dealt with the flat tire. And this didn't look like any flat tire. It looked like the tire exploded off of the rim. It was totally separating from the rim. After the spare was on Eric came to find us in the store and helped us finish the shopping. Then we went home for some frozen pizza. But I wasn't in the mood for frozen pizza, so I had spaghetti o's with franks. Wow... our lunch habits are great.