Last Sunday I was waking up from a nap so I could start on Easter dinner. I'll be the first to admit that I'm pretty grouchy and out-of-it after waking up from a midday nap and it usually takes me an hour or so to recover. Anyway, I wobbled into the bathroom and sat on the toilet. I happened to notice that Noah's bath toys had been dumped out all over and in effort to start cleaning the house before our company came over I started grabbing toys and throwing them in the basket (still going to the bathroom). I finished my business and stood up. There was one last toy on the ground. The Geico Gecko that our insurance guy gave us 2 years ago when Hurricane Katrina knocked a tree over onto our car. I picked up the gecko. Noah ran out of his quiet time for the 50th time and in the middle of yelling at him to get back in quiet time I threw the gecko in the toilet. And I hadn't flushed. I started cracking up and told Mark to come see. Of course Noah had to come and see. He freaked out. Mark told him I would get it out. Noah was still crying. I was still grouchy. So I made everyone leave. I grabbed and egg dipper wire thingy to try to fish it out of the toilet but I thought it would be less disgusting if I just pressed the gecko to the side of the toilet, flushed, and then poured some bleach into the toilet bowl to clean off the gecko. Well, I flushed. And the gecko slipped and went down the drain. Then I had to tell Noah that not only did I accidentally throw his toy into the toilet, I also accidentally flushed it too. He's not really happy about it. But once we realized it wasn't going to affect our plumbing, Mark and I thought it was pretty funny. Also, we are going to have Noah write Geico a letter to see if they will send him a new one.
Today in church, while I was playing prelude music on the organ, I heard a loud thud of something landing on the organ. I looked over and saw a large house centipede. Fortunately I didn't scream. I did abruptly stop playing though and made my friend come take care of it for me. The rest of the meeting I had the heeby-jeebies, especially while playing the organ and it definitely affected my playing. So sorry, if you noticed and were annoyed.
Tonight as Mark was putting Noah in pajamas, Noah said:
"Daddy, when you put my pajamas on you make sure I don't bonk my head. When mommy puts on my pajamas she makes sure I do bonk my head."
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I'm reading! Keep on blogging! We love it! I'm glad to get an explanation of the geiko in the toilet story. And I didn't know you played the organ! Very impressive (especially when centipeds are involved
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