not top 10

10. little miss can now unscrew lids. i guess no more clorox and toilet cleaners for toys.

9. kevin has wanted a pair of "chill" athletic shoes for quite sometime now, so

with a pocketful of graduation money, we hit the mall. we went to dick's and immediately he fell in love with this one pair of nike shoes. he was ooing and ahhing and asked one employee if he could get him a size 10. the guy looks at kevin and says

"dude, those are lady shoes". i laughed. a lot.

8. the only pictures i seem to capture of little miss these days are extreme close ups seconds before she mauls the camera or of her running away so i can't take one of her. and her thinking she is so funny.

7. at church last week, kevin got up to take annie out (who was being quite loud)

and his whole bum was wet. and he didn't know it. i was laughing too hard

to say anything to him before he was out of whispering reach and then he was gone.

i'm sure fellow congregants were wondering about his incontinence status.

annie had been playing with wipes and left them on the bench,

only to be sat upon by kevin unknowingly.

6. linus, i mean, annie refuses to separate from her blanket, or her "nee-nee" as she calls it. this picture doesn't do the filth and blackness justice. i either have to secretly wash her blanket while she is distracted or have her watch her blanket in the washer until she gets bored.

5. i wanted to make little miss a dress for kev's graduation this saturday, so i did. the only problem was the pattern only went to a 12 mo. size so i improvised and did my own measurements for an 18 mo. size. it is gigantic on her and won't work. it took a lot of time and now she'll just have to wear something already in her closet. terrible, i know.

4. annie prefers dog and cat food to human food. at least it's filled with fiber.

3. speaking of incontinence...annie did a little naked escape after her bath and came and plopped her little cheeks right in my lap. not 2 seconds later i felt wet and warm. thanks, girl.

2. annie just discovered walter the farting dog. enough said.

1. kevin ran over lucy with the car and she's still alive. i'll let you determine which part of that statement qualifies this for a "NOT top 10".

stay tuned for a little optimism. next week: "top 10"