G'day

I had a good day on Tuesday. My kiddos both slept until 9:30, which means I slept until 9:30. When we got up, John and I made some pancakes and cleaned the kitchen. At about 11, I dropped John off at Franny and Rogan's to play for a while and Audrey and I went back home. I nursed her and then she napped and I got a shit-ton of stuff done. 

I put away all of the random documents that have been floating around our house, which means I cleaned up about three of those "junk piles" and sorted them into recycling or the filing cabinet folders. Then I organized our filing cabinet!

I cleaned the kitchen. 

I unpacked all of the rest of the stuff from our Colorado trip and even put the suitcases away. 

I made a giant thing of stammpot and put it in the fridge. 

I swept the floor of Audrey's room and moved the futon into her room. I put sheets on the futon. 

I washed, dried, and (later) folded ALL of our dirty laundry. It still is not put away though...

I started to sweep the kitchen...still haven't finished that one either. 

I made AND sat down to drink a cup of coffee. 

At 4, I went to pick John up and came back home to find Jenna making dinner. 

When Eric got home, we ate. Eric vacuumed with John's help. 

John and I took a shower. He dumped water on my head, and I zerberted his belly. 

We put John to bed. 

To end our day, Jenna, Audrey, and I watched the bachelor finale while eating Oreos dipped in milk. 

Good Day. 

Fun Facts

I enjoyed reading these today: 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/77-facts-that-sound-like-huge-lies-but-are-completely-true

1. If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
2. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”
3. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
4. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
5. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
6. Cashews grow like this:

Via hort.cornell.edu

7. And pineapples grow like this:

hiyori13 / Via Flickr: hiyori13

8. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
9. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
10. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
11. Hippo milk is pink.

Via factslist.net

12. The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
13. Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride.
14. And while we’re at it, Mr. Clean’s full name is Veritably Clean.
15. Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
16. Carrots were originally purple.
17. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.

Via geekosystem.com

18. Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.
19. Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than it was to today.

20th Century Fox

20. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

21. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.

22. France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Warsfilm came out.

23. Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets.

24. Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.

Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images for TV Land

25. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
26. A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is.
27. So are avocados and watermelon.
28. New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.
29. North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.

Via rsf.org

30. Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.
31. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
32. Nintendo was founded as a trading card company back in 1889.
33. The man who voiced Fry on Futurama, Billy West, also voiced Doug onDoug.

Via funnyjunk.com

34. The last time the Chicago Cubs won the baseball World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
35. And lollipops had not yet been invented. 
36. And women did not have the right to vote in the United States.

Via theheckler.com

37. If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States.
38. John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s alive today.

Via geneamusings.com

39. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of The Fresh Prince.
40. The show the The Wonder Years aired from 1988–1993 and covered the years 1968–1973. Today, in 2014, if one were to make a similar show, it would cover the years 1994–1999.
41. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
42. Duck Hunt is a two-player game. Player two controls the ducks.

Nintendo

43. The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
44. One more fact about the Cubs: The last time they won the world series, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, and New Mexico were not yet states.
45. Speaking of Alaska — it’s simultaneously the most northern, the most western, and the most eastern state in the U.S.
46. Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

Via wishlist.soup.io

47. A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
48. A million seconds is about 11 days.
49. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
50. And one trillion seconds is about 32,000 years. A trillion is a lot.
51. But the good news is: Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.

Via Flickr: sionakaren

52. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.
53. And there’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.

Via upload.wikimedia.org

54. There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S. 
55. For every human on Earth there are approximately 1.6 million ants. The total weight of all those ants is approximately the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
56. An octopus has three hearts.
57. Mario hits blocks with his hand, not his head.

Via drheckle.net

58. The CEO of Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.
59. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.”. This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
60. You can’t hum while holding your nose.
61. It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
62. Also, this is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close to us as the Moon is:

Via twistedsifter.com

63. And this is what sand looks like under a microscope:

Courtesy of Dr. Gary Greenberg / sandgrains.com / Via sandgrains.com

64. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
65. The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
66. If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 42 minutes to reach the bottom.
67. There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
68. And 90% of the cells that make us up of aren’t human but mostly fungi and bacteria.
69. Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.

Via pinterest.com

70. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.

Via cropsinpots.blogspot.com

71. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
72. The dot over an “i” is called a “tittle.”

73. There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth. 
74. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.
75. At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet. 
76. And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.
77. And, finally, “dog food lid” backwards is “dildo of God.”

 

Big Boy

No, I'm not talking about the restaurant; I mean my son. 

Since Audrey was born, John has seemed like a giant. The past few days, he's not only seemed large in size, but he's seemed so grown up too. He has been repeating words like crazy. Usually when I ask John if he wants some grapes (or something else), he'll say "no" or "uh-huh." Today when I asked him if he wanted grapes he said "gay-pee." That's right, that's how my son says grape. 

Earlier this week, I got a little potty for John. This morning I had to poop and he was demanding attention or entertainment, so I opened the box and took out the potty. John was thrilled and continually shouted "potty, potty, potty." I closed the door, took off his pants, and let him explore the properties of a potty while I enjoyed the properties of my potty. 

He sat down right away and made a funny face. I think he might have been imitating me. Not cool. 

The roof in our back room has been leaking all week and the front window just started dripping. While sitting on the toilet I heard some dripping. I was pretty upset that the bathroom was leaking because it's under the peak of our house, which means there's a major leak. I looked around to find the source, but couldn't find it. As I was doing this, John stood up, pointed behind him, and (even more excited than before) shouted "Potty!" 

I took a little gander and, sure enough, there was a little quartersize puddle of pee AND a little terd in John's potty. This kid knows what he's doing. I was pretty excited and encouraging, so he sat back down and tried some more, but that's all we got. He was flexing his abs and making his funny faces the whole time. 

Now that I've shared one of those stories he'll hate me for when he's older...

...the end.

(This is from February 21; I just never got around to posting it)