The Sixth Solstice and that Other Holiday

Shannon had a little difficulty this morning and I am not exactly his favorite person anymore. It all started when he woke up and ran to the bathroom for that morning pee that all little boys seem to take. What is usually a simple task apparently isn't too easy if somebody put you in your footsie pajamas in the middle of the night. Especially if they put them on you backwards.

So anyway, Shannon's running for the potty trying to unzip a zipper that is not there and growing very upset. As he kicks open the bathroom door, a hat filled with about 20 bouncy balls falls from the ceiling landing directly on his head. Balls bouncing everywhere and a bladder ready to explode, Shannon just didn't know what to do! Seriously, it was freakin' hilarious, I wish he'd let me take a picture.

So all the commotion wakes Corey up, naturally, and the first thing he does is go down to his computer and fire it up. But what is this? The screen is broken and the mouse doesn't work? (Or is it just the way mom set up the wallpaper on the computer...)


Not to worry, Corey has another computer directly behind him! The mouse works! Corey moves the cursor up to the search bar and starts typing in his latest most favorite website, occasionally looking down as he pecks his way through the address. But wait...


Oh, the frustration!  The home row is backwards!  Naturally I had to reiterate to Corey that this was temporary, the computer wasn't ruined, and then of course I had to show the boys how to dismantle a keyboard.

Anyways, all of this happened before daddy got home, so we went into the kitchen to prep the bouncy ball gag for daddy's entrance. Corey looked around and asked why there were sixes all over the kitchen.


The numbers, left over from Riley's ninth birthday, obviously didn't represent a birthday, but they did represent The Sixth Solstice, a holiday that falls on the first Thursday of April, wink wink. I explained that the sun isn't quite at it's highest point yet, it was six degrees off and today we celebrate that fact. And of course... we celebrate it by only eating things that are green, which is why I made green jello the night before.


After having jello for breakfast (it was a holiday after all,) we waited for daddy to get home, bounce bounce, where he told us all about how he suckered numerous people at work the night before by pulling off the CTRL + ALT + ↓ trick that Corey inadvertently taught us the day before. Try it, it looks like this:


To turn everything back, just do a CTRL + ALT + ↑.

Anyhow, just as everybody calmed down Shannon suggested that we get the guinea pigs in on a prank. He was brainstorming for a while and I told him he could probably think of something easier if he was actually holding his pets. Of course Shannon thought that was brilliant and ran to get Max and Cheepers. "What happened to my guinea pigs?" yelled Shannon in disbelief.
Not really sure what happened to those guinea pigs.... oh, look, they've been pooping jellybeans! I wondered aloud whether or not these aren't the infamous Easter Pigs I've heard about, for when the real Easter Bunny can't reach all the kids... Suckaaaaaa's!

Anyhow, that was all before noon, and the day is still young. I will probably direct future efforts toward my neighbors just so that the kids don't run away for good. So for all you neighbors out there, don't say I didn't warn you.