This is Jack playing in the shortening. He wanted to "make cake". This happened the same day he squeezed out a whole tube of mom's hive medicine. He smeared the shortening all over the floor, the cupboards and himself.












Day 1- before the work begins




















They tore down the awning the first day.

These are the boys watching the concrete demo.

Day 2- A lot of noise and they started to demo the concrete.

Day 3- They dug a hole in the pool. Now we wait until Monday for the inspector to verify that there is a hole.
Jack told me he loves the "guys". "Guys" is Jack's generic term for any kind of blue collar worker. They wave to him in the window.

My challenging son, Jack

So, yesterday was a banner day for us here at the Plummer house. In the morning Jack was unsually quiet. I went to find him and as I climbed the stairs I was overwhelmed with a minty fresh smell. Jack had squeezed out an entire tube of toothpaste and fingerpainted on the walls with it.

Later, Amy was over for a visit and Jack comes running out of mom's room crying and rubbing his eyes...again with a smell following him. This time the smell was methol. I grab him and ran into the bathroom. He had used a large amount of Icy Hot to rub all over his hands and face and now he was rubbing it into his eyes. The more they burned, the more he was rubbing his eyes. I started furiously washing him. In my haste. I knocked over the blowdryer and it turned itself on as it hit the floor. So now I'm rinsing Jack's eyes, he's SCREAMING and I'm yelling for Amy to come turn the blowdryer off.

30 minutes later, Jack is suddenly very shiny and greasy. I said, "Jack what's on your hands?" He said, "Yotion, mommy's pillow." I ran upstairs to find that he has taken a tub of Aquaphor A.K.A. Vaseline, scooped it out and smeared it all over my ultra-suede duvet and pillow. Ahh...
I sprayed the spots with Shout and put the duvet and pillow case in the wash. I haven't checked it yet. I'm sure it didn't come out.

The lesson of this story... install locks to the outside of each door to "Jack proof" the house.

The following is a picture of the gum I made Jack spit out this morning. The quarter is in the photo for scale. I've never seen such a big piece of chewed gum. It's bigger than a deck of cards. Notice the teeth marks.



Halloween (Better late than never)




Jack getting into grandma's powder.

The Ultimate HotWheels Car Park
as told to me by Tristan, verbatim.
(He was talking about designing the park with his building blocks and insisted I take notes)

1. Start with one red block in the middle
2. You need yellow pipes, just like Tristan had them
3. Ramps by the opening, so the cars can launch on
4. A giant playset with cars, lots of cars
5. Tall ramps with a red block
6. We need to buy lots of HotWheels cars
7. Remember to make lots of tunnels
8. Buy some tracks that the cars can get on in their size
9. Make a loopty-loop gap jump- a sweet one
10. Make a continuous connector so they keep going and going

Ahhh.. the perfect car park.