Hot Underwear

Thanks to those mission skills for once again helping me resolve a "concern".

We've been having trouble convincing Lincoln that he needs to change his underwear every night. Finally, last night, I asked him why he didn't want to change out of his dirty underwear.
His answer? "I like hot underwear Mom."

Apparently, the underwear straight out of the drawer was a bit cold compared to the pair he'd been wearing all day.
He agreed to put on a fresh pair if I could make them "hot".
Which is how I found myself microwaving underwear at 7:00 last night.
(8-10 seconds for those who are interested)

Next step, teach him how to use the microwave so he can heat up his own underwear!

Pedernales Falls

For those of you not from Texas, that's pronounced "Perdenales" - don't ask me why, it just is. Andrew had part of the day off last Friday so we decided to head out for a little hike and ended up out west to look at the falls.
Unfortunately, months of drought can turn falls into more of a tumble. This was the best we could come up with.
These were much better, but they were from a spring that was flowing out from under the tree, so I don't think they really count.


The nicest thing about a dry riverbed is that you can always find a nice sand pit to play in...

Worms!

For Christmas, my sister gave us a pound of worms... sound odd? Well, she also gave us this book to go with it... Worms Eat My Garbage. All so we could learn about the finer points of worm composting before getting our wiggly helpers. The kids were so excited when the worms arrived in the mail the day before my birthday... they thought it was about the coolest birthday present ever! Turns out, there are about 2000 worms in one pound. Here they are checking them out:


It took us another day to get our compost bin ready, but finally it was time to add the worms. In this video, you can see all the wonderful squirminess as the worms try to get out of the light and you can hear the kids talking about what they're going to feed the worms.