Did I Give a Spider Update?

I don't think I did--the creepy wolf spider made its way into our apartment. S/he met a wind tunnel death, too. Another one made its way onto the porch and I've been afraid to go on the porch ever since. I water the flowers and do a crazy dance before I go in just in case some spider wants a free ride into our cozy home... shiver, shiver, heebs, shiver...

Junior Mints or Poop?

The short answer is: poop.

The longer answer is that Aidan had a bowl of Junior Mints and spilled them on the floor. I thought we picked them all up. A little time later, he handed me what I thought was a smushed Junior Mint. Fortunately, I didn't taste test it. He is a little constipated and his poop was little hard balls and one fell out of his diaper. Being a good boy, he handed one to me. Being a bad mommy, I freaked out and wrote about it on my blog (after giving him a bath and disinfecting my hands, of course).

The Chocolate Faced Chef

Well, Aidan has become quite the jabbermouth lately. So I guess it is time that he says an embarrassing public comment now that he is 3. Today we went to lunch with my mom and Aidan kept talking about someone having a chocolate face. I looked for someone with a chocolate mouth (kind of like a milk mustache, I guess) and saw that he was pointing to the chef in the restaurant (which has one of those open kitchens). The chef had a mustache and beard so I figured that was what he meant. Maybe you can see where this is going...

Then Aidan points at a waiter and says that he has a chocolate face, too! As you might have guessed, the chef and the waiter were African-American. I couldn't stop laughing long enough so that I could explain to Aidan about different skin colors...

Spiders - Yikes!

I finished planting all my flowers on our porch last night and started watering them. Along came a spider, a great big wolf spider with blue irridescent eyes and scared the bejesus out of me. Jeff was supposed to be keeping his eye out for it while I got the broom. Mind you, the broom was about a foot away from me and I was about a foot away from Jeff. In that time, he lost it. So now I'm scared to go out on the porch for fear of the Wisconsin Tarantula.

I'm not positive that it was a wolf spider but my searches on the Internet last night sounds that it might be. I prolonged me heebs during that late-night query. Even just writing about the dang thing is spooking me out...

Then this morning, Aidan discovered a spider outside of my closet. When I approached it, it creepily scurried INTO the closet. I got the vacuum and sucked it in and now I'm scared it is going to come crawling back out. I have cleaned up the house a bit in hopes that constant suction will kill the spider. No--I do not like killing spiders but mother nature has let me down. We had an agreement that we can live in peace and harmony with spiders in their space and me in mine. Obviously I didn't clarify that their space and my space cannot be one in the same.