Happy Labor Day! Or is it Merry Labor Day? Best Wishes on this Labor Day. Congratulations! It's Labor Day! On This Special Labor Day...
I started out Labor Day in a most appropriate way...hard labor. The Governor woke this morning with a nasty mess in his britches. And on the crib sheet. And all over his clothes. And the harder I tried to contain the mess, the more it spread to other surfaces. I may have to buy a hazmat suit to put him to bed this afternoon. Not all the bleach in Wright County is going to make me feel confident that his room is sanitary.
So after his bath, I put The Gov in his high chair for breakfast. The Crazyweiler stood by and put his chin on the tray of the high chair. More bleach. The Gov holds a graham cracker over the edge of the tray, and The Crazyweiler puts The Gov's entire arm in his mouth before managing to loose the cracker from his fingers. More bleach and anti-bacterial soap.
The Senator finally gets out of bed and after his meal, we all head outside to launch rockets. The VP decides we should do this from the middle of the dirt road. The Gov loves this idea; the dirt road is one huge sandbox! He has more gravel in his hair than the DOT uses on our road in the winter.
I give up. There is NO POINT in keeping this child clean. I will put out fresh straw and water and feed him well, but no more baths.
Happy Labor Day.
Posted by Cathy at September 1, 2003 11:58 AMyou must blog or it's a curse unto you and you spelled launch W-R-O-N-G wrong
Posted by: The SG at September 1, 2003 01:39 PMThe above comment was written by my son, appointed the Surgeon General, or SG by the writer of the blog. He's 9. I'd ask you to cut him a little slack on his grammar, or lack thereof, but he is correcting Aunt C's spelling.
Anyway, he typed out that whole comment by himself, and is very proud of it. Hopefully 4th grade (which starts tomorrow for the SG) will teach him more about capitalization, and punctuation.
Cathy, do I need to remind you that tomorrow, BOTH of my children will be in school. All day. Every day.
I'm doing my happy dance.
Thanks for the b-day beer, food and mmmmm..... cheesecake.
Aunt S
Posted by: Aunt S at September 1, 2003 05:02 PMOkay. I think I'm going to add a line to the header stating "I DO NOT PROOF MY WORK."
Thank you, S.G. for catching my typo; it is now corrected.
And Aunt S.....I'm sending you a bill for the cheesecake because you are mean enough to taunt me with that "both boys in school all day" crack.
Posted by: Cathy at September 1, 2003 07:37 PMSorry to hear that the Gubernator is such a trial, but better thee than me. ;-)
Suggestion from a physician's son: lay off the anti-bacterial stuff. Outside of helping breed resistant bacteria and increasing the profits of the manufacturers, the stuff is no better than plain ole soap and water in cleaning and may be depriving the little ones of necessary exposure to the more common critters. My nephew has had problems with ear infections, some of which may be attributed to his mother's obsession with anti-bacterial soaps, etc. My brother and I both grew up with liberal applications of soap & water (and Dear Lord, we needed it frequently) and not much of any other disinfectants - Mother, the M.D., didn't even keep mercurochrome or merthiolate in the house. This (unsolicited) advice, of course, is worth exactly what you paid for it and I expect that you will do as you see fit - actually, I'd be surprised if you didn't. :-)
Hope your Labor Day was a good one.
Posted by: aelfheld at September 1, 2003 10:00 PMHi aelfheld-
Hope you had a great weekend too.
I've heard that about the anti-bacterial stuff. It's hard to find any soap these days (in the liquid form, anyway) that doesn't have "anti-bacterial" printed across the front.
I try to stick to Ivory, but trying to get The Gov's hands clean with bar soap is a bit tricky.
Thanks for the reminder!
And careful with the "better me than you" crack...might come back to haunt you some day! :)
Posted by: Cathy at September 2, 2003 07:43 AMDidn't know that regular liquid soap was so hard to obtain. I'm not much on liquid soap, so it isn't a problem I've had to deal with. Oh well, we do what we can.
Posted by: aelfheld at September 2, 2003 03:32 PM