Cheap Thrills

Yep, that's a picture of a spring door stop. You're wondering why you're looking at a picture of a spring door stop. I just wanted you to see what entertained my children tonight. How much do we spend on toys for our kids, when all it takes is a $.49 piece of hardware attached to the wall. Coleman and Spence even took turns and didn't get upset when the other one "boinged" it. (If you don't have spring door stops in your home, "boing" is the noise it makes when you pull it back and let it go.)

On to other strange happenings. This morning Coleman told Brian to give my dad a big sloppy kiss. Let me explain. Coleman asks for a big sloppy kiss when Daddy leaves for work. Then he asks Daddy to give Mommy and Spence big sloppy kisses too. He doesn't understand that it probably wouldn't be appropriate for Brian to give big sloppy kisses, or even little sloppy kisses for that matter, to my parents.

Here's an update on our addiction to the computer game Jawbreaker. Brian decided to try to write a program to determine the maximum score for a given round of play. Using a brute force method, it would take 75,000 years to compute on the average home computer. We just really don't have that kind of time.