Mommathon

We met with the painter and the foreman yesterday. Things seem to be coming along rather quickly, so I asked the foreman if the November 8 close date was still realistic. He said that usually you close about 45 days after the painter finishes. The painter starts next week. That’s more like September.

This is our new breakfast food around here. First we put neufchatel cheese on them and then top them with our favorite fruit. I like to put either blueberries or strawberries on mine. Liam likes sliced bananas. Colm tried one, but didn’t like them; he is a waffle boy.

I love listening to my kids as they talk to themselves and each other in the back of the car. Today was a great example. Colm was singing a song about how his favorite color is red. It was so funny. He was just making it up as he went along. Then, later on today Liam was looking at the nutritional information pamphlet that we got at Papa Murphy’s and he said, “Mom, there are a lot of calories from fat in the original crust pizza”. (He likes reading the nutritional labels on various foods). It didn’t stop him from eating the pizza when we got home though.

Squirming Larvae Pulled From Man’s Head
5 Squirming Fly Larvae Pulled From Colorado Man’s Head After Trip to Central America
The Associated Press
CARBONDALE, Colo. Jul 17, 2007 (AP)

Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas’ head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.

A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas’ head.

“I’d put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head,” Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent.

“I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy.”

Dallas said he likely received the larval infestation while on a trip to Belize this summer. Bot fly infections are not uncommon in parts of Central and South America.

Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday.

“It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. “I would get this pain that would drop me to my knees.”

After a specialist told him he might have shingles, Dallas tried different creams and salves. But the pain only got worse.

“When I saw him again, it was pretty obvious something else was going on,” said Dr. Kimball Spence, who could see the spots moving on Dallas’ head. “There’s an open pit. You see a little activity, not necessarily the larvae, but a fluctuation of the fluid in the pit.”

Dallas’ wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it.

“I told him, ‘I will love you through your maggots,'” she told the newspaper.

But Dallas saw little to laugh about.

“It’s much funnier to everyone else,” he said. “It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel.”

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Did I just violate a copyright?

It’s coming right along. We meet with the painter on Friday. The contract finishing date is November. I can’t imagine it taking them that long. We’ll see.

I took the boys bowling today and they had a blast! It was so much fun. They had never been before. I think Colm enjoyed watching other people bowl more than he enjoyed the actual bowling and Liam thought he was quite the bowling expert by the end of the game. Their form was hilarious. Liam would run, run, run up to the line and then chuck it. Colm would squat and then give the ball a little nudge. Then the ball would S L O W L Y make it down there. We will definitely be going back. You have to go on Tuesdays though. It is a dollar for shoes per person and a dollar per game per person. So the boys and I bowled one game and it cost less then seven bucks. Not bad.

Putting on his cool bowling shoes

Liam the scorekeeper


Watching the ball travel painstakingly slowly down the lane

Final score:
Me 122
Liam 85
Colm 41

Teamwork! The boys worked together this evening to get the cars washed. (They had a little help from their dad.)

This is a quick read that any mom can relate to. There are chapters about oozing poop (Janelle, I thought of you), binkies, family pets, kids humiliating their parents in public, and the list goes on. The funny part is that she is able to relate all of these parenting matters to topics such as Mother Teresa, Solomon and the Prodigal son.

I am so excited about these. These will be perfect to pack in Liam’s lunches and Colm will drink it just because it looks like it is in a juice box. They aren’t easy to find, but there is a card on the website that you can take to your grocer to tell them you want them and if that doesn’t work, there is a link on the website that will take you to a company that delivers hard to find goods right to your door.

We got this game a couple of weeks ago for the boys. I really got it for Colm, but Liam likes it, too. It is so funny because the boys play it totally differently. Liam plays to win. He has figured out which pieces he needs to win and he gets upset with you if you get to them before he does. Colm plays to make a funny outfit. He likes to mix up the clown top, with the cowboy hat, with the nurse head, etc. How the game works: You roll the die. The die tells you which piece you get to pick up whether that be a shirt, a hat, shoes, etc. Each person has a turn until everyone has a complete person. Then you measure the people you created. The person with the tallest character wins. It has inches on one side and cm on the other, so it is fun to measure them both ways.