Thursday, April 17, 2008

smoke alarm follies

Okay...here's a little bit of advice for you homebuyers out there. If you can help it, don't buy a home with smoke alarms on vaulted ceilings. They're a real pain in the butt to change batteries. Actually, after my fumbling attempts-and I have to admit I put the damned battery in backwards (the print was too small for me to read about positive and negative posts for two volt batteries), J jumped up there, with her superior fine motor skills and got the job done. All in all, it wasn't fun. We had to use a gorilla ladder in the livingroom and both of us don't like climbing ladders...That said, hopefully this battery lasts for a hell of a long time.

I do have to compliment Goobs. He loves the Flyboat so much, he won't eat cheerios in a bag while in his car seat...whoops, I mean booster seat. What a good little boy! He's graduated now to a booster seat. Our little man is getting bigger and now is finally out of the five point restraint system. The Bun, by virtue of her size, may be in car seat until she's in junior high... But...she's finally growing. She's still tiny compared to other kids her age, but I think she's closing the gap by a little bit. I really think that her stature has forced her to be fiery and assertive, so maybe it's better that she's small.

Well, gotta get back to the salt mines...Later!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Champ has been out of the 5 point harness for a while. Just the fact that he can put on his seatbelt by himself is a help.

Mama Nabi said...

:-) Small is good... for your pocket. It means you can hold onto her carseat, i.e. not have to buy a new one, for a long time. Damn those carseats are expensive... and it's one of those things you don't want to cut corners to save money so you can't exactly stuff some cushions under her butt and wrap her in some hemp rope or anything.