We have a full house this week. It is already full with my parents, Raina and I. Now we have added my sister Melissa and her family of four. Her, her husband and two sons. My crazy nephews Joseph and Joshua. They are getting their hardwood floors redone and taking out some of the carpet to refinish the old hardwoods in their house. So, while the work is being done and the varnish is drying for the week, they are staying here with my parents and us. It is going to be a bit crazy this week, especially with the kids. They are wild children. At least they can be. They can also be very entertaining. They have been introduced to Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog on the Nintendo DS. The DS's are Raina's and mine. It was just one at a time at first. Having to share between the two of them. Eventually we pulled out the second one so they could both play at the same time. After getting their opportunity to play for a little bit today, I overheard Joseph telling my sister how we bought two DS's so that they could both play. That we had gotten a second one just for them. It was kind of sweet to think that we had bought a second DS just for them and I didn't want to ruin it for them by telling them we had two the whole time. I will just let them continue to enjoy their moments of Mario and Sonic.
Then there was a moment when I had come home from my class to find out that the kids were taking a bath. After being home for a few minutes, there was a sudden burst of crying and tears coming from the bathroom. The bar of soap had fallen into the tub and Joshua had felt a burning sensation in his eye. They are used to Johnson's no tears version of bath soap, so they usually don't have that problem. My sister then proceeded to tell them that it was because the bar of soap was in the tub with them and that it would burn their eyes. They immediately burst out in tears, crying that they didn't want to burn. They were thinking that the soap was going to make their entire bodies burn and they just wanted to get out. They could not be consoled and they had to cry it out before they finally calmed down. Poor kids thought they were going to burn up all over. It just shows how not explaining every little thing to a child can lead into total misconceptions. It was still funny though. I am sure it will not be the last thing they do to make me laugh this week.
This Day In History: 1924
At Mitchel Field, New York, Lieutenant James Doolittle takes off and lands in a windowless airplane. It was the first all instrument blind flight.
Born This Day: 1936
Jim Henson - American puppeteer who created the Muppets.
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
-John Foster Dulles
The nephews, fresh from a cry in the tub. Joseph and Joshua. And no burns.
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