HKG239: Totally Random Tuesday

today has been an odd day. it started out with josh having to dismantle quinn's bed. the long story is this...when i was moving q's bed into sissy's room for jeanette's visit, i broke the bed a little bit. when josh moved the bed back into q's room after jeanette's visit, he broke the bed a little bit more. last night, while cuddling quinn and getting him tucked in for bed, josh broke the bed completely. it was safe enough to let q sleep there for the night, but needed to be dismantled before nap today. i told q he was going to have a camping adventure for his nap...he protested a bit with "wha you do to mah bed, mommy?!" complete with angry eyebrows, but he settled down quickly.

before nap, we had a pretty quiet morning with a small side of adventure. i had a hell of a time convincing my homeboy (as in never wants to leave home) quinn to get out of the house. i had to lure him out with the promise of a hot dog bun (this is a bun baked around a hotdog...local cheap delicacy) and a chocolate milk. we needed to get to the pet store to pick up what we are calling waffle's airport house...his travel carrier.

speaking of waffle, we learn something new about our sweet kitty every day. the latest revelation is that he loathes a child-free house. in the wake of our recent vacation, he has decided that when there are no kids visible, he must cry at the top of his lungs while pacing the house. he does this for at least 10 minutes after i put q down for his nap. he also cries at the top of his lungs when we leave the apartment...we can hear him from the elevator lobby. another random thing we've recently learned about waffle is that he looks a LOT like a japanese bobtail. after some wikipedia-ing, we've come to the conclusion that waffle must have a good bit of this breed in him as his features and disposition match the description of this breed very well...all except one point. waffle does NOT have a soft, tonal voice. the only tone he knows is LOUD AS HELL :-) he does talk constantly, though, which is typical of the japanese bobtail. and, of course, he has his very special tail that has intrigued us from the moment we met him.

waffle's not-so-distant relative, the japanese bobtail

okay, back to the adventure of getting out of the house...we did finally get out and accomplish all of our missions. along the way, we also acquired a ben 10 toy and a chocolate cake. random, yes? we keep walking by this place called awfully chocolate. it has bars on the window, and the interior is stark white. it looks like jail for chocolate. it just begs to be explored. due to language barrier, i ended up with an entire small cake rather than a single serving of cake, but it was still fun to explore. cake here is WEIRD...so, i will have to repost about our adventures in eating it tomorrow since we are saving it for dessert after dinner tonight.

waffle checking out his airport house with help from the kids. they crammed every single last one of his toys in there with him, and he thought that was pretty awesome. he tolerated this game for a good 10 minutes before he decided to get the heck out of dodge.

the last BIG adventure from today is livie's first loose tooth and my surprise reaction to it. as i have mentioned before, livie has been OBSESSED with losing teeth...to the point of crying when she hears her friends have lost teeth. she's been less focused on this lately. today, she gets off the bus and tells me a little about her day, calmly moseys on into the building, cheerfully shares elevator button duties with quinn, and THEN announces to me that she has a loose tooth. she tells us this all the time, so i blithely stick my finger in her mouth to feel this "loose" tooth, and then i nearly vomit. it turns out that loose teeth make me queasy. she, in fact, has a very loose tooth. i bet it will be out in a few weeks. livie told me she accidentally hit her tooth really hard with her cup at school, and that's how it became so loose.

late this afternoon, we are off to the post office to mail the first of a series of boxes home to texas as well as some postcards to friends back home. the post office always brings out the absolute worst in my kids, and i am seriously contemplating lollipop bribery...then again, we will be there right before dinner, so prolly not.