Kaput

So, as I was drying my hair this morning my blow dryer died. It wasn't a quiet slow death. I saw smoke, then something popped, there was a flash, more smoke and then nothing. This blow dryer went out with a bang as it seems all of my dryers do. Because of my previous track record with hair dryers (I think I went through four in my two years at college) I keep a spare on hand so I was able to finish my hair. Thank goodness for that! It would not have been pretty if I had just stopped when my dryer died, not pretty at all!!

Now I have the task of finding a new one. I'm sure some of you are wondering, "Why no just use your spare?" My answer is, Because I don't like it but I keep it around for situations like this when it's better than nothing. The dryer that just died has been a good one. I think I've had it for six years. I'm pretty sure I bought it soon after I got home from my mission in 2003. That's a long life for a blow dryer, at least for me it is. I'm trying to decide if I should just get another one like my last one (the current model) or if I should try something new. What do you think? What kind of hair dryer do you use? Help me out here, Ladies! Thanks!

Weaned and other random happenings

Well, I think I've done it folks. Austin is now off the bottle. Yippee! When he hit one year I got him down to two bottles a day. He got one when he woke up and the other right before he went to bed. This last couple of weeks I gradually got him off his morning bottle and tonight he went down without his night bottle. My next challenge is to get him to drink milk. As of right now he drinks juice great out of a sippy but will only have a few swallows if it's milk. It really makes no sense because he drank it great out of his bottle. I guess it doesn't taste the same coming out of a sippy. Go figure!

Now for the random stuff. Today I told Carter that it was time to clip his fingernails and he informed me that while I was doing that he needed to be doing something and ran off to find his phone (one of my old broken cell phones). As I clipped away this is what Carter's saying with the phone up to his ear....

Oh hi..... Yeah...... HaHaHa(fake laughing).....yeah....HaHaHa....Ok, buy.

I was talking to Grandma Tracey. Now I will call Grandpa Kevin.

Oh hi.... Yeah.... HaHaHa....... Did you poop today?......Yeah.....HaHaHa...Ok, buy.

Totally made me laugh. Where does the kid come up with this stuff??

Austin has discovered the garbage in a new way this last week. He used to only pull stuff out of it but now he puts stuff in. Yesterday he found a string and came over to me and said "ku-ku". He then proceeded over to the kitchen cupboard, opened it up and put the string in the garbage. I chuckled, and told him good job. Later on I discovered 3 toys in the garbage as well. Sometimes he gets it right and sometimes he doesn't. I think putting things in the garbage is his new thing because he did it again tonight with the cover off the book I'm reading.

Last thing. Tonight Carter was a crab. He would only respond to "Crab" or "Crab Carter". All through dinner we had to ask Crab carter what he wanted to drink. And tell Crab Carter to eat his food. And tell Crab Carter to go get washed up. If ever we called him Carter He informed us, "I'm not Carter, I'm just Crab Carter." Every thing's an adventure with kids!!


**Sorry for the lack of pictures. We're experiencing some internet difficulties. For some reason the internet won't work on the computer that has all of our pictures on it. Hopefully soon I'll get it worked out.