Do you have a mouse taped to your chest??

WARNING!!! THIS IS WEIRD AND GROSS (NOT TO MENTION FUNNY, AT LEAST TO ME AND THE REST OF MY FAMILY). I GUESS IT COULD EVEN BE EMBARRASSING.

Someone in this home leaves the hugest clumps of hair in the shower. I have theories, but I won't say who. I don't think it's me since I never get to shower (hehehehe), and it's probably a combination of the 3-4 adults that shower here "regularly"(hehehehe). HOWEVER, from what I have been able to tell over the past month and a half, if I were not cleaning these clumps out, they would now be the size of a small dog.

Anyway, last night the boys needed to take a bath so I started the tub. Here comes one of those clumps ( this is so gross!!), so I scoop it out and set it on the underwear that Jacob has just taken off. I was going to fling it over into the trash and be done with it. I WAS!!! Austin scoops it up, lifts his shirt up and sticks it under his arm!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He dreams of the day he finally has armpit hair. Well, being the weirdo that I am (not that I would put that stuff on my body), I run and grab some tape (you know, mainly so the hair isn't falling off on the floor). We tape his armpit hair on and he goes around the house showing it off. That fun wears off and we tape it to his chest. He shows it to Ralph and Ralph asks him why he has a mouse taped to his chest. I don't know why this stuff is funny to me, it just is.

The hair did finally end up in the trash. Unlike the hair from Austin's haircut a few months ago. He had gotten pretty shaggy, so there was alot of hair cut off. He asked the beautician if he could keep a ball of it. She looked at me and I said "whatever". She already had an idea that he was weird when he asked her for pork chop sideburns. Anyway, this ball of blonde hair came home with us. It stayed nice and "bally" for most of the day since he had asked her to apply lots of hairspray to it, but by the end of the day, the ball of hair had babies and was beginning to shed. I chunked it.

Today will be an interesting day. Austin gets BRACES!!! Poor thing has had so many teeth problems. One of his front baby teeth (which most kids seem to have lost by 1st grade school pictures) never would come in. Low and behold, we get an x-ray that tells us there is an extra tooth up in there keeping the other from coming down. So we have surgery to remove the extra one and make a better channel for the other to come down. That was last year and still no permanent tooth. So, now we go for partial braces to see if we can't open up enough space to make it come in. If it doesn't come down, we go for more surgery to attach a bracket to that to "drag" it down. If that doesn't work, I guess he gets a fake tooth. That is the worst case scenario.

Oh, I have a HOUSE UPDATE!! We are supposed to close on the house this Friday!!!!!Woooohoooo. I'm a little nervous about getting too excited. I can't think of anything at all that should hold us back, but I know these things can happen. If it gets cancelled I'm gonna freak. If it does, I'm going to make Ralph call the banker and pretend to cry. I think that would have more impact that me crying.
These could be the last of my blogs for a bit. Not sure how we will live with dial-up internet. I know that Ralph has already checked into a satellite service so maybe that will work better.

Oh, I have a HUGE CLUMP OF HAIR UPDATE too: I used my scientific skills to come to a conclusion about that hair. I was the last person to take a shower last night and Ralph has taken a shower this morning and there is NO huge clump of hair. Of course, everyone loses hair when they shower. I notice it more because I am the cleaner of the bathroom. In the old house, I used to wonder if Ralph was going bald, but apparently, when one hair falls out, 18 more grow in it's place. That man has the thickest dark brown hair with not a touch of grey. I contribute that to working outside of the home.

Tootles!!!