A boy and his dog

I don't have pictures of this...

The other night I was already having a bad day, but being a mom never stops no matter what kind of day you have. I was getting Austin in the bath, one of his favorite things to do next to going outside and getting dirty. We were splashing and playing and all of the sudden he stops and looks at me and then I saw it...THE POOP FACE!!! Oh, no!
At first he thought it was hilarious when he heard the first "kurplunk" then he saw the panic in my face and he panicked too. I picked him up and ran him to the potty. He just looked at me like, "Oh, we sit on the potty AFTER we go the bathroom?" He was so confused, and now cold and wet. So I whipped his bottom, dried him off and put his pj's on him...Now on to conquer the floaters.
I had to remove his trucks, which ironically the dump truck was carrying a "load" so that was fun, and then I had to drain the tub while fishing out floaters. The toys promptly went to the sink to soak in some disinfectant, and I began scrubbing the tub. You may ask yourself "where was Keith in all of this?" he wisely chose to stay down stairs to watch football and pretend he could hear the commotion upstairs.
However, Austin and the dog were intrigued with what I was doing and had huge smiles on their faces. Needless to say when Keith cheerfully came upstairs to tuck Austin in I had officially morphed into the devil and told him to stay away from me. I suppose I should have been nicer to him, but when you're covered in shit, friendly is hard to find. Anyway, thought I'd share a day in the life of the Kirkland's:)

Kaylan's Toy Story Birthday

Our friends daughter Kaylan had her 4th birthday party this weekend, and Austin had a blast! It was at this cute place called Cherubs Club House. They had quite the set-up! They also had a great cake made by Shay Cleckler (who also did Austin dump truck cake), and Woody from Toy Story was there (good job Bo). There was also a real fire truck there, which was Austin's favorite.