Thursday, June 29, 2006

Flying Spaghetti and a Magic Fish!

Life with my son, Hunter, has never been boring!  We call him "Hurricane Hunter".  And I have coined a quote about him: He makes Denace the Menace look like a Saint!  A friend even had a shirt made up for him with that saying.      On Sunday, the kids were eating their spaghetti at supper.  As usual, everyone was done and gone with Hunter still working a way at his (the strange child doesn't like to eat!)  Since I was in bed with sore ribs (thanks to several roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland), I was not supervising suppertime.  I heard Tori yell at him several times to sit down and eat.  A friend called and during the conversation, she came upstairs and told me that I needed to deal with Hunter.  Apparently, he'd gotten up, went into the kitchen, took the bowl of leftover noodles, took them into the livingroom, and threw them up in the air hitting the ceiling fan.  Well, you can imagine where those noodles went....everywhere!!  I simply cannot fathom the mind of a boy!  Where do they come up with these ideas?!?  If I could only harness that power!     On Tuesday, Belle and I were changing the fish bowls.  Belle has a glorified goldfish and Hunter has a Beta.  His bowl was in the bathroom.  We put his fish in a deep cup beside it until the water in his bowl was at room temperature.  I took the kids out for a few hours.  When we came home, Belle went in to clean the bathroom.  All of a sudden, I hear her yell, "Mom, where's Hunter's fish???"  I said it was in the cup and she said it wasn't.  I asked if someone had put it back in the bowl but she said no.  Sure enough, that fish was GONE!  We looked everywhere.  Of course, the girls and I were afraid of finding a dead fish body.  But it's never turned up, even after going through the garbage and looking in the toilet.  There are some theories.....there was a fish rapture, the neighbour's cat broke in again and ate it, but the most widely accepted is that it jumped out of the cup and went down the drain.  The whole thing is bizarre and several times that night I yelled out, "Where's the fish?!?!"      I should be used to the weird things that go on in this family but I am always amazed when something new   happens!

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