Too Crazy to Pass Up

Look what I found in the dryer this weekend when I washed a load of jeans.

As nearly as I can tell it's part of a traffic cone.  Also, my mouse is a regular sized mouse, not one of those miniature ones.

Last Post re: Samuel's Pockets (Maybe)

I decided to document the growing pile of crap on the top of the dryer.  If you can't stop the madness you might as well join in, right?  So every week after I did a round of laundry, I photographed the pile of stuff and captured the new additions.  Here they are, in order.

Here we have some pebbles, a Starburst wrapper, an arm from an action figure, staples and some other unidentifiable stuff.

This week we added some silly bands, a weird bolt/screw thing and a bobby pin.

This time we found a dollar!  It was quickly reclaimed.  There are also a hair clip, part of a broken earring, a day-glo spider, a tiny bubble wand and more pebbles.

More of the same.

This week we added the remnants of a busted balloon animal, beads and more pennies and pebbles.  

How does one kid find, become attached to, and collect so much crap?

Pocket Boulder

Remember the post about Samuel's pocket contents?  He came home today with this.  That's a quarter beside it.  It is so big I thought his pocket was going to rip when he took it out.  Solomon teased him a la Donkey from Shrek -- "That is a nice boulder!" I don't know what to do about this so I think I'm just not going to do anything.  Ha!

One Week's Pocket Contents

Belonging to Samuel.  Why?  I do not get it.  The child brings home all manner of weird crap that he finds every where.  And if I ask him to throw something away, he gets very sad and his eyes get huge and his face falls as if I asked him to kick a puppy or something.  So I relent and the crap sits on the dryer for a week or so and then I throw it away and he never asks what happened to any of it.