It has been a long time since the last blog update. Don't let that fool you into assuming that all is going calmly here. Chaos greets us every day as soon as we wake up.
I have been too busy/lazy to catalog Liam's latest crime wave but here is a rough rundown:
1. Stabbing the dining room chair
Yes, that's right, stabbing the dining room chair. And here is the victim.
It was a nice funeral. All remaining chairs in the family were in attendance. Thankfully there were no other casualties in this vicious attack. (There has been a rumor that the family is going to enter a witness protection program a.k.a. become reupholstered, but we are waiting to ensure that there are no further attacks)
The following weapon was found at the scene...
I have been too busy/lazy to catalog Liam's latest crime wave but here is a rough rundown:
1. Stabbing the dining room chair
Yes, that's right, stabbing the dining room chair. And here is the victim.
It was a nice funeral. All remaining chairs in the family were in attendance. Thankfully there were no other casualties in this vicious attack. (There has been a rumor that the family is going to enter a witness protection program a.k.a. become reupholstered, but we are waiting to ensure that there are no further attacks)
The following weapon was found at the scene...
***No, of course the butter knife was not the culprit, it is just being used to demonstrate the magnitude and utter fearsomeness of the actual weapon used. Sigh.
2. Slashing the kitchen sink hose.
I honestly cannot blame Liam for this incident as I have no concrete proof, but there is an uncanny relationship in the several knife crimes of late that add a certain suspicion to this...
I was rinsing some fruit out in the sink and had it in a colander. I pulled out the hose to spray the fruit and water squirted all over the kitchen instead. If I hadn't known better I would think Chris or Devon had showed up and pulled the old "rubber band around the sprayer" joke. Unfortunately I found that it wasn't the sprayer at all but the hose that seemed to have a very neat cut severing it almost all the way through. FUN!!! (Don read later on the internet that hoses can crack but this looked too neatly done and the hose isn't that old) There was an exciting period of looking under the sink to find any other damage associated with a leaking hose. Ugh. It appeared that luck was with us (go figure!) and there was little wetness under the sink. Thank goodness. Thanks to dad for passing on the handy genes; I later replaced the hose.
3. Breaking and Entering (and eating)
Liam has an annoying habit (ha ha ha) of constantly asking for food. He wants to eat at all times of the day except mealtimes. I can hardly blame him as I myself am a snacker by nature. Anyway, he kept asking me if he could have pizza and I told him "no, he would have to wait until I was done talking to Aunt Laurie" (thanks Skype!). Savvy as Liam is, he waited until I was wrapped up in my conversation to sneak into the kitchen (I say sneak but the truth is he walked in bold as brass), got in the fridge, and got out the pizza that he wanted. You can see by the following evidence that he was not at all repentant for his behavior, taking the relaxed munching approach.
Jen called today to update me on our 4K info for fall. (Liam and Quinn will be going to school together) A maniacal giggle erupts from me every time I imagine their teacher...
2. Slashing the kitchen sink hose.
I honestly cannot blame Liam for this incident as I have no concrete proof, but there is an uncanny relationship in the several knife crimes of late that add a certain suspicion to this...
I was rinsing some fruit out in the sink and had it in a colander. I pulled out the hose to spray the fruit and water squirted all over the kitchen instead. If I hadn't known better I would think Chris or Devon had showed up and pulled the old "rubber band around the sprayer" joke. Unfortunately I found that it wasn't the sprayer at all but the hose that seemed to have a very neat cut severing it almost all the way through. FUN!!! (Don read later on the internet that hoses can crack but this looked too neatly done and the hose isn't that old) There was an exciting period of looking under the sink to find any other damage associated with a leaking hose. Ugh. It appeared that luck was with us (go figure!) and there was little wetness under the sink. Thank goodness. Thanks to dad for passing on the handy genes; I later replaced the hose.
3. Breaking and Entering (and eating)
Liam has an annoying habit (ha ha ha) of constantly asking for food. He wants to eat at all times of the day except mealtimes. I can hardly blame him as I myself am a snacker by nature. Anyway, he kept asking me if he could have pizza and I told him "no, he would have to wait until I was done talking to Aunt Laurie" (thanks Skype!). Savvy as Liam is, he waited until I was wrapped up in my conversation to sneak into the kitchen (I say sneak but the truth is he walked in bold as brass), got in the fridge, and got out the pizza that he wanted. You can see by the following evidence that he was not at all repentant for his behavior, taking the relaxed munching approach.
Jen called today to update me on our 4K info for fall. (Liam and Quinn will be going to school together) A maniacal giggle erupts from me every time I imagine their teacher...
