SILLIER YET

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 Today was another silly day with kids. Jayden and Bailey got off at 1:45 for some teacher…something-or-other so we had plenty of time to get nutty. At one point we were in the kitchen of their house giggling and goofing off when in reaction to something I said, Jayden said “I’m going to put my foot up your…beep!” Beep” is the word he used. I laughed and said “Where, up your mouth…up your shirt?” Jayden started laughing. That made me start laughing. And Bailey, who had just swigged a large mouthful of milk and hadn’t swallowed it yet started laughing so hard that the milk came spewing out of her mouth and her nose. Fortunately we were sitting around the island in the kitchen and the floor was stone and not in the living room where it was carpet. I cleaned it up. Then they went outside to play with some neighbor kids. Jayden’s football ended up in the window well of the unit next door to the neighbors. It is a vacant home. They were afraid to jump in and get it because of the bugs down there. They said there was a black widow but they had drown it with water from the hose. It probable receded off somewhere. Bailey came running in the house asking me to help them. We grabbed a broom handle from the garage and ran over there. There were a handful of kids screaming and pointing. Jayden asked me to climb down and retrieve his ball for him. I told him there was no way this old body could do that. I reassured them that it was safe now. All there was was a couple of black beadles left and one of them Jayden killed, cracking its back with end of the broom handle. Jayden asked me to hold him by the ankles and lower him down to the ball but after I started lowering him down he changed his mind. Finally he worked up his courage, jumped down threw the ball out and scampered back up as fast as he could. Later it turned into and water fight. By the time it was all over both Bailey and Jayden were quite wet. Jayden was soaked including his tennies. He changed into a pair of white shorts and his boots. That was a sight to behold. He was even laughing at himself for how he looked. Later Corey called and asked if I would take the kids to Wal-Mart and meet him there since he needed to pick up some groceries. Bailey sat next to me up front. She and I got loud and were making funny noises to the point that Jayden in the back seat was shaking his head in disgust.