A Breakthrough!

As most of you know, we've been having issues with Garrett playing with his poop, as much as I want to phrase that delicately, there really isn't any way to do so. For the past couple of months he was doing this regularly and making huge messes, which obviously frustrated and grossed me out at the same time. I read a few tips for how to handle it, but never really got a chance to implement anything. Well, it's been several weeks since we've had an episode, but I've still been on the alert for the possibility. Today, we finally had a breakthrough. He was supposed to be napping, but about half an hour into naptime, I heard him say "Is it poop?" He tends to ask lots of questions, and phrases many statements into a question. Dread and fear immediately entered my heart upon hearing him say this. I just knew that I was going to walk into his room and see a disgusting sight. Surprisingly, this was his way of letting me know he had pooped, but thankfully hadn't done any investigating on his own. Of course, we then went through the dirty diaper changing routine where he asks me approximately 1000 times "Is it yucky?" Yup, it was yucky. I'm in hopes that he is now officially past the poop-obsession phase. Of course I'm sure we're now moving on to something else to be obsessed about, but really, what could be worse?

For those of you who couldn't care less about my child's disgusting habits, here's a little update on our new TV. This weekend we went to "The Dump" and bought a cabinet to sit under our TV and house our DVD collection along with the surround sound receiver, DVD player, and other miscellaneous stuff. (For those who have never heard of "The Dump" it's a local furniture place that sells stuff for pretty cheap. It's huge too, approx. 100,000 square feet!) Obviously we've made the decision not to attempt to put our DVD player and other stuff in the hall closet. The wiring aspect of that scenerio was going to be a nightmare. Keith discovered this when he went into the attic last week in order to get our surround sound wired in. First of all, a 6'5" guy isn't the ideal size for a person to be crawling around in the attic. Secondly, he has a healthy fear of spiders, so that isn't the best place for him. Yes, I said my 6'5" husband is afraid of spiders, and he has every right to be. He was bitten by a brown recluse (fiddleback for all you Texans) a few years ago and got really sick and had to make several trips to the doctor to get it taken care of. It was horrible. He still plans to go back into the attic one more time in order to finish off the surround sound, but we've nixed the plans for our closet turning into DVD headquarters. I actually love this cabinet that we bought and it's plenty big enough to hold all the electronics, plus our DVD collection as well as all the VHS tapes that we still have. We still have to buy one of those radio-frequency remotes though. The doors on the cabinet are wood, not glass, so if they're closed we have no way to control the DVD player with our current remote, if they're opened, we have no way to stop our child from destroying everything inside that cabinet, so the new remote will hopefully take care of all that.

A few things that we've learned in the past week and a half since getting all this new equipment...1. There are lots of digital channels to be picked up with a regular antenna (actually I think our antenna is one that's supposed to pick up digital channels too, but we don't have to pay a monthly fee like we would for satellite or cable!) 2. Blue Ray discs are awesome! There is no comparison between watching an actual Blue Ray disc versus a regular DVD being played on the Blue Ray player. The Blue Ray has excellent picture quality, whereas the regular DVD looks fine, but you don't see the detail like you do on the other. (I still don't plan on buying any more Blue Ray discs until their prices drop considerably.) 3. If you plan on converting to Blue Ray in the next few months, I highly recommend you buy the Playstation 3. It plays Blue Ray discs as well as games and it's the same price as the regular Blue Ray player. We didn't know this, and neither one of us are into video games, but even Keith said that if he had known, he would have definitely bought the Playstation 3 instead because then you have the option of playing games on it as well. 4. Some people look terrible in high def. Especially some of our local news anchors. I now understand why some celebrities don't like the high def movement, they certainly do not look good. This was made even more evident last night while watching the Oscars. Some looked wonderful and you can tell they are just naturally good looking, while others obviously cake on the make up, and in high def, you can tell. Every scar, wrinkle, stretch mark is very noticeable. Remind me to never become a celebrity.