lurking in your bathroom...

It’s time to get real about toilet paper. And I don’t mean like those dumb commercials about ‘getting real’ in the bathroom and pudgy bears with specks of paper on their bottoms either. “OUR paper is soft without being TOO soft.” “Oh yeah? Well OUR paper does the job better, and won’t leave you feeling like you just dremmel-ed your arse!”

Seriously. Do people actually REALLY study these things? Can toilet paper actually be too soft?

Personally, these matters do not concern me. What concerns me is the volume of toilet paper that is consumed in this household. I simply cannot understand how our little family of 3 potty-users (2 of which are male) can go through a roll of toilet paper every 3 days. WHERE DOES IT GO???????

My first thought was that Grayson was eating it. Come on! The kid eats just about anything else. But, he’s not allowed unsupervised in the bathroom 1). Because he will likely eat the potty paper, and 2). He thinks the potty itself is a kiddie-pool.

I briefly toyed with the notion that maybe Max and Erma had learned how to use the toilet, but one look out the back door busted that myth.....

...which leads me to the OBVIOUS conclusion: Potty-paper Gnomes. A distant relative of the Under-pants Gnome, the Potty-Paper Gnome  thrives in the bathrooms of families with small children. This crafty little bugger feeds off the TP roll, causing unsuspecting mothers to question their sanity and monthly budget. There is no cure or ‘icide’ to rid your home of these parasites, however, I am told they will eventually move on once your children learn that they do not need to wipe themselves 24 times per visit.

BEWARE THE POTTY-PAPER GNOME!!!

21 Weeks already!

I'm feeling not-particularly inspired right now, so I thought I would steal a friend's idea about posting the weekly happenings inside my belly - from another site.

Ok, people - here's what Baby Bean is up to this week:

He now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. He is definitely practicing martial arts as his initial fluttering movements have turned into full-fledged kicks and nudges. In other developments, his eyebrows and lids are present now - yippee!!!

So far so good, I am feeling great. My belly isn't so big that it gets in the way of everything, but it's big enough now that I really do look preggers and not like I have the beer-gut from hell. Other than the occasional sleepless night (and the gross sweating thing), I have been blessed with a relatively easy second trimester so far!

So all we need now is a name, since that's the one thing we can't seem to agree on this time!