As we were getting the boys ready this morning, Sam ran off for a second and grabbed some magnetic letters from the fridge. He came over to Evan and said, ‘Look Evan, it’s your favorite word’. Sam laid out the letters to show Evan.

NO

Holly and I couldn’t stop laughing for 10 minutes.

Sam and Evan got to spend the weekend in Britt with Holly’s parents. First off, God bless’em for taking the boys even after Evan threw up on the way to Britt. Evan was fine after that and bounced back for the rest of the weekend. Sam, as usual, had a great time because he got to watch movies, go to Dollar General, and pretty much have it his way.

The boys got back this afternoon and it’s been a whirlwind of activity since they walked in the door. We all played outside because of the unusually warm day (56°F in late Nov) and then they came in to have dinner. During dinner we watched the Wizard of Oz on TV and then went downstairs to play. So far a pretty fun weekend.

Pretty soon it was bath time and I started getting everything ready. Sam’s job is to get his pajamas and clean underwear when it’s bath time. So Sam went into his room and started to collect what he needed for a bath. And that’s when Sam, in his own words, said was the best part of his whole weekend. Sam came running out to show me his new underwear. Sam got new underwear and it has Scooby Doo on them.

Sorry Grandma and Grandpa, I was surprised that underwear beat out Dollar General too.

No not house move, but blog move.  As I mentioned earlier this month, I have another blog at familytechguy.net.  That blog uses a different software to host the page content than the one I use for the MyGeekDaddy blog.  There are times I want to post something short and quickly do it while I'm in the momemt – like this morning when Evan said 'Ta Da' just because he got buckled into his carseat (nothing big, but kinda cute).  My other blog allows me to post directly from Twitter, so look for some changes in the coming weeks, most likely over the Christmas to New Year's holiday week. 

I have a confession to make.  For the first time as a parent I used my son to get something done for me because I didn't want to do it myself.  You see that pretty tree all decorated with lights in the picture.  Well the guy who built our house saw fit (or in my opinion, lack of vision) to only put two outlets on the outside of the house.  So to plug in this tree would have required to either run the extension cord across the driveway or through the backyard. 

Of course the driveway option wouldn't work because I would be guaranteed to hit, cut, or slice the extension cord within two minutes of trying to clear the first snowfall.  So the obvious choice was to run the cord through the backyard to the other outlet.  Well the other outlet is on the other side of the deck and so it made sense to run the extension cord under the deck.  That's where Sam comes in.

Yes… I asked my son to help me pull the extension cord to where I wanted it by crawling under the deck.  We both got flashlights and he crawled halfway across to get the wire puller so I could pull the cord completely under the deck.  He thought it was so great that he got to help Dad put up the Christmas lights.  I also want to add that he got handsomely rewarded for his effort (he got $5) and that his mother was there the entire time supervising our task. 

So for reason of guilt by association, Holly had as much to do with this as I did.