tech-mology

The concept of technology in our house is quite misunderstood.  Both overestimated and underestimated at times.  Two good examples of this happened this week when Owen had to get medicine for strep throat. He was trying to open the bottle on his own and could NOT twist off the cap.  He tried and tried and tried and then finally asked me to help him.

I said "oh, you can't open it because it's child proof."

"Whoa! How can it tell?" (that i'm a child?)

And then second one is from Penny.  she has a computer game that she likes to play on pbs.org or something and it asks if you have a microphone with big Yes or NO button to continue.  She always clicks YES and then is frustrated because she can't finish the game (i guess we dont have a working mic on my laptop? not sure.) Anyway, so i told her click NO so she could finish the game.

The next day, simon came around the corner carrying two super-echo microphones that we got from target few months ago. She got all excited when she saw him.

"mom, Simon found my microphone!  I can play curious george now!"

aw, so cute right? well, i thought they were funny.

Otherwise we're ok, my funk is fading although simon attacked a little girl in the kids club today.  they wrote up an incident report and gave us a verbal warning when i picked him up.  it went something like this.

"This is your verbal warning."

hmmm, ok what's next? a physicial one?

hope we don't get kicked out.

p.s. can SOMEONE give me some motiviation to clean my house? like come visit????  (with plenty of warning, though, haha.)

p.p.s. excited i made plans to go up to auburn in a few weeks.  were going to hang out at mendi's parents property (which will be renamed the compound for the weeken d) and stay there all day, er'yday til we come home.  alright, it's only about a day and a half but i'm excited.