Great Friends, Roaches, and Relaxation! 7/31/2009

When we got home from Nan's today, Koda had a nice surprise waiting for him on the porch! A bag filled with goodies from the Morby's! A cute card, a DVD, coloring book, crayons, and a bag of candy to give him something to do while he heals! What a LIFESAVER! You have no idea how many times I have heard-Mom if you take us to Fiesta Fun I PROMISE I won't bump hard on the bumper boats! Seriously Koda, do you think bumper boats would be a good idea right now?!? Thank you so much-it is so nice to have such awesome friends!
I, on the other hand, had a not so nice surprise waiting for me there on the carpet. An enormous cockroach!
An Ugly, dirty, disgusting, COCKROACH!
I can't stand the thought of roaches, let alone having to see one. I even called A to tell him how sick this thing was and he said-I am eating lunch-take a picture and we can talk about it later! So my complete obsession of picture taking has either rubbed off on my husband, or he is secretly hiding his love of photography!
SO of course I thought to myself what a GENIUS idea! I took a few pictures, then called Jaden in to "take care" of the creature. It is so nice having kids that can do the dirty work!
My question is, how in the world is this ugly thing getting SO much to eat, that he is literally POPPING out of his shell!??!?!?!
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...
Speaking of my obsession with photography-no I don't take pictures every time we go swimming! We have just been swimming a LOT, and I take along my camera every now and then.
Jaden is a cautious child. Let me restate that. Jaden is a VERY cautious child. Always has been, apparently always will be! He has wanted to do a flip into the pool ALL summer. But didn't know if it would be safe. Today he FINALLY did it! He was so excited and continued to do it over and over, UNTIL he landed on his back. Really hard! Then he decided that cartwheels were a lot less painful, and stuck with that for the rest of the day.
Poor Koda with his neck brace, that he wears 24 hours a day, has actually grown to love it. And it SMELLS like it! OH MY! So he is supposed to put cold packs on, but that gets painfully cold. So I thought having him soak in the cool pool would be a great alternative, plus wash away some of the stink!! He loved it, then about fell asleep laying out on the floaty!