I am amazed at how difficult it is to safely keep any kind of product in our house. The trouble began over a year ago when Eddie tried to “water” my new houseplant, which had been a sweet gift from Frau, with an entire bottle of 409 spray cleanser. Needless to say, the plant did not survive and the house smelled like lemon for over a month. A few months later, it was an entire bottle of baby oil, dumped and spread around the boys’ room and bathroom.
Since then, we’ve learned that we cannot keep bottles of soap on the edge of the bathtub unless we want them to be emptied into the bathwater. Diaper rash cream must be kept high out of reach because it does not come out of carpet. Bar soap can only be used when company is coming. Otherwise it will be broken into pieces and shavings and turned into a gloopy mess. We’ve dealt with an emptied magnetic pincushion, countless spools of thread endlessly wrapped around toys and furniture, and an inexplicable attempt to bail the water out of the aquarium with half a plastic Easter egg. More recently, Eddie had to clean up all his toys with a towel, because he emptied ¾ of a bottle of spray-on sunscreen in his room (thank goodness there isn’t a water heater with an open flame upstairs!)
Two days ago, I noticed piles of white powder in several locations in the living room. Since there’s no powder in our house that I know of, I asked Kyle, and he told me what he caught Eddie doing… who would have guessed? Because of our growing pet snail population, we have been breaking off pieces of cuttlebone to provide the snails with calcium. If you don’t know what a cuttlebone looks like, here it is:
Eddie also brought home a swimming penguin pool toy from Nana’s this weekend. It may be hard to see, but there’s a propeller on the end:
Kyle said he caught Eddie “drilling” holes in the cuttlebone with the penguin’s propeller. Of course! Shouldn't that have been obvious!?
We're moving again, but this time it's to a place where we can stay for awhile. It's a much bigger place and it's a couple of blocks from an excellent elementary school. We will move at the beginning of July.
We spent a weekend with Nana and Woody. They have an awesome racetrack toy!
We went swimming with Aunt Nut, Adam, and Nana in La Grange. We didn't want to get out of the pool. 
Billy loves corn on the cob!
We have a great time swimming at McKinney Falls.
Eddie says he has "his own playground" in his new backyard.
