Adlani started his first day of Taekwon-Do today.  I’m hoping that it helps with his impulsiveness and his lack of self-control.  If we didn’t find some sort of activity for him I’m afraid he would spend every waking moment plotting how to watch Sponge Bob without us knowing.  So far, so good…he came home REALLY tired and he enjoyed the class, except for the push-ups.

He’s always thinking though.  Each time the kids attend a class they get a colored paper clip to put on their belt.  When they have a certain number of paper clips, they get a star for their uniform.  On the way out after class, Adlani told me about the star, and then said, “So we can just go buy some colorful paper clips, and I’ll have a gold star by midnight!”  😛

In other Adlani-related news…he had a really horrible-looking fang coming in through the front of his gum because his baby tooth hadn’t fallen out.  The dentist said the baby tooth had to come out so we made an appointment, but I kept hoping it would fall out on its own. The weekend before his appointment, a different tooth fell out.  The tooth fairy left him this note along with a couple bucks:

A few days later, the dentist pulled out the tooth that Adlani has been calling “my dirty tooth.”  He had a filling in it two years ago and the dentist (a different one) did a terrible job because we were literally holding him down while she tried to quickly fill the tooth with Adlani screaming and writhing around in the chair.  The tooth fairy left Adlani $1 and a note that said:

I have a feeling we have another set of braces in our future.  🙁
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I have never in my life seen a cow laying like this.  I guess I’ve never seen a cow that’s all tired out from trashing a house.  FYI…Apparently, damage done by cows in your house is not covered by your homeowners’ policy, so keep your barbed wire in good shape.

Here’s the article, from the Dallas Morning News:

Cows make lousy house guests, Arkansas woman learns
02:45 PM CST on Friday, February 26, 2010
By ABIGAIL THATCHER ALLEN / The Dallas Morning News

Four days after cows broke into her home, a woman in Murfreesboro Ark., says she’s still in shock.

Latisha Francis came home Monday afternoon to find three cows in her farmhouse.

Needless to say, the homebound bovines cause “total chaos,” upending furniture, scattering belongings, and generally making a mess of things.

“It’s not something that people would see everyday,” Francis said. “At least I hope I never see it again.”

The largest of the animals weighed 1,600 pounds.

Pike County sheriff’s deputies, assisted by two high school teachers from nearby, helped remove the cows.

“It was a little different,” Sheriff Preston Glenn said.

“Life’s never dull in our line of work, but that was kind of different.”

Francis speculates that her dogs may have spooked the cows into the house.

As she drove up, she said, one of the cows was looking out the front door. That one walked out on its own.

The other two took a bit of coaxing. And her laminate wood floors made it hard for them to walk, Francis said.

One of the animals was resting on a bedroom rug.

A group of men pushed and pulled the cow, and, thanks to the rug, “she just glided right through there,” Francis said.

She called her husband at work. She told him not to worry, no one was hurt, “but I’ve got cows in my house.” Her husband came home to assist in the cow removal.

She said she also called the local 4-H coordinator. She wasn’t sure why, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Her insurance adjuster told her that the mayhem caused by the cows wouldn’t be covered. Seems her homeowner’s policy doesn’t account for intruding cows.

Meanwhile, she said, the cows are staying where they belong.

Outside.

Adlani fell asleep on the couch tonight, so I woke him up enough to stagger upstairs.  By the time we got up there he seemed to be awake(ish), so I sent him into the bathroom.  Aliya was brushing her teeth and I heard her scream, “Adlani’s peeing on the seat!”

So what else is new?  Adlani’s aim still needs a lot of work, and then there was the time that he peed in his own face (this post is a classic).  I couldn’t imagine why Aliya would be screaming.

Until I entered the bathroom and realized that he never opened the lid at all.  He just stood there and peed right on top of the closed lid.  And the wall, the floor, and his pants.  In his defense, he was asleep at the bowl.  But still.  Seriously, that’s gross.   

It’s a good thing there’s plenty of leftover sangria.
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I had a great night with the ladies last night, while we all shopped for candles and enjoyed the sangria and the company.  The Partylite lady (Kathy) didn’t finish taking orders until 10:30!  If you missed the party and would like to place an order, here’s a link to Kathy’s website.  If you’re just wishing for some sangria, here’s the recipe:

1 bottle of red wine

I’ll be hosting another Partylite show on November 4th so we can shop for the holidays from the new winter catalog.  Save the date!