October 18, 2009
We have been enjoying cooler fall evenings watching a lot of scary movies at night. Our fall project has been working on a puzzle. We have set up a long folding table in the living room down stairs dedicated to the puzzle. We have been working on it for weeks and finally finished it yesterday. Originally it began with Christian in mind, but it has become Karl and Lori’s obsession. Lori has been known to leave Karl sleeping on the couch while she sneaks down and work on it at 11 o’clock at night. Lori is very good at puzzles. Karl shares the obsession, just not the talent.
Where is Vayden?
Very VaydenVayden is becoming a more competent walker. She attempts a little run now and then. She likes to eat cereal with milk. She got constipated and would cry when she had to go. Karl felt really bad for her, so the other day when he was watching her all day he thought it would be a good idea to feed her Raisin Bran cereal all day long. Big mistake. She didn’t stay constipated for long.
We have been dressing her in lots of Halloween related outfits. She is very cute. Vayden likes to play fetch the remote with Karl. She brings it back and hands it to Karl. Karl says “Thank You.” and she gets all tickled. Sometimes she repeats her version of “thank you”. Lori taught her to say ‘light’. She actually says ‘dite’ and points to the nearest light. Vayden can eat anything now and pretty much does. She is not a finicky eater at all She has even been with us to eat sushi.
Completely Christian
Christian has been enjoying fall break and is off in Indiana now having fun there. Christian’s team has been winning their football games and made it to the play-offs. Their first play-off was yesterday. We are sure they felt Christian’s absence.
Sooooo Shelby
Shelby sent us some pictures of homecoming. They blocked of the main road for the event. The La Porte Slicers did go on to win the game. Shelby also told us she sold almost $200 worth of port pit chickens.
Family Stories
The Scorpion
One night Lori and Karl were watching a scary movie upstairs. Vayden was already asleep and Christian was watching his own movie in his room. During a scary part of the movie Lori started screaming; “Look at the floor!” over and over. Karl who was dosing off, thought she was talking about the movie. Lori kept yelling and Karl finally looked at the floor in the room as opposed to the movie and there crawling across the carpet straight towards where we were sitting was a scorpion. For a second it was a little hard to believe. Now scorpions are pretty creepy looking in pictures and at the zoo, but they take on a whole new level of creepy when they are several feet away from you in your house crawling straight for you.
Karl jumped down off the couch and grabbed Vayden’s plastic changing pad and put it on top of the scorpion before it could make it under the couch. Karl knew that if he did not kill the scorpion, Lori would be probably be insisting on sleeping in a hotel. With the scorpion under the pad, Karl pounded the pad with a box of Vayden’s wipes and called for Christian to come see. When Christian was in the room, Karl lifted the pad, expecting to see a dead or at least severely wounded scorpion. When Karl lifted the pad, the now very mad scorpion ran straight for Karl. By the way, a surprising fact that is good to know . . SCORPIONS ARE FAST! Karl stopped the scorpion just short of reaching his leg, using the pad again. Additional pounding did not kill the scorpion and Karl had Christian go in the bathroom and get a glass to trap the resilient creature. The scorpion was finally captured and measured at over 3 inches.
Karl and Christian have since purchased scorpion lights and gone hunting for them at night outside. They make these little flashlights with black light. For some reason scorpions glow under black light making them very easy to spot even when they are hiding. Karl and Christian were only able to find one dead one, but could not find a single scorpion outside. They even went into the neighbor’s back yard and all over out front. No scorpions. The bug people came and sprayed again for free. Nothing lives out there anymore. Lori is still having nightmares involving scorpions however and always turns on the light before she walks anywhere. Karl did wear flip flops the night it happened in the house but has since been convinced it was a fluke.
Heart Attack Grill
Karl finally talked Lori into going to the Heart Attack Grill. The restaurant is set up like and emergency room complete with and ambulance parked outside and everything. You are greeted by nurses who admit you by dressing you in a hospital gown and placing a band on your arm. The menu consists of big burgers and an instead of a salad bar there is and all you can eat french fry bar. The burgers and the fries are fried in lard. By the way french fries fried in lard are unbelievably delicious. The biggest burger they have is called the quadruple bypass burger. The quadruple bypass burger is 8,000 calories. They will wheel you out in a wheel chair if you eat it all. Our nurse said only a few of them are ordered every day. Karl did of course get a quadruple bypass burger and ate it with no problem. He even ate some more fries after finishing it.
