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So I killed it and fed it to the pool filter. The end.

 McBaby used to never say anything. He would just burble and giggle and occasionally whine. Then I had this great idea to teach him a bunch of words. The problem with this is that it turns out he has opinions about everything, and shares them all the time.   Goodbye kisses in the car? Those are not going without comment anymore.   Which socks to wear used to be a non-issue, but now he has an expressible preference that will not be ignored.   And that is not the only preference he decides to make known either. Hmph.

My brother-in-law, Trent, just returned home from a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! He has been gone two years and a lot of stuff has changed since he left. I was thinking about doing a, "2011-2012 Recap" to catch him up on the things he missed. I looked up a few lists on the internet and it turns out I didn't know about hardly any of the things that happened on any of the pop-culture-type lists. So I have determined I am not the most qualified to do a review of 2011-2012 in general. Instead I decided to review some of the movies that I suspect people will be telling Trent he HAS to go see. That way he can avoid this:   Here are 5 movies people might freak out about:  A lot of people thought this movie was "Amazing" but to me it was one of those movies where if you have anything critical to say about it they say, "GEEZE! It's a COMIC-BOOK movie!" So I thought it was cheesy, and kind of ridiculous, but it's a comic b...

I have finished the second storage ottoman! For this one I got some cute fabric online. When the fabric came though, it was a lot brighter than I expected. The colors were cute, but next to my more subdued blue ottoman they looked cRaZY.  I wanted a red that was closer to my red door, (you can see it in the background here) and a blue that was more blue-green. I decided I still wanted to use the fabric, I just needed a way to take the colors down from 11. I had heard people use tea as dye, to give things a muted antiquey look, and I thought that would tame my colors just perfectly. So I found this online tutorial for antiquing and decided to go for it.  The trouble is, I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and we don't drink tea. ( No, we don't drink any kind of tea only tisanes .) Also, other than the difference between herbal tea and a tisane, I know basically nothing about tea. The tutorial said to use black tea, but all the teas have weird, ...