Friday, January 26, 2007

It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt

We finally got enough snow to go sledding in the back yard and were very excited to do so. Well, at least I was excited because I was tired of being cooped up inside and slowly watching Felix turn into a couch potato courtesy of Thomas the Tank Engine, Elmo and our newest, most annoying friend of all, Zimmo.

We bundled up and headed out. Felix was a little resistant at first because the snow kept sticking to his mittens...he has a mess fetish. We finally made it up the hill and started sliding. Lots of fun. Then, I decided to record him going down alone. By this time we had worn a pretty smooth, slick trail down the hill, and I should have known better than to send him down face first on his belly. But, down he went and BOOM! face plant into the deck. The result...see pictures.

It ended up being just one of those days because later that afternoon, Felix suffered a bloody lip after falling face first into the futon bar.

Click here to see the sad footage of Felix sliding down the hill and crashing.

3 comments:

Amy J said...

Ohhhh...we were so sad to see that little shiner on the little guy! :( I couldn't watch the video...it almost made me cry just thinking about him crashing! Cute pictures, though! :\

Scott said...

Who's this impostor posting in my name? I don't watch Zimmo; I don't even know what a Zimmo is; isn't that a kind of lighter?

All kidding aside, I tried to figure out how to allow Margie to post in her own name, but I couldn't.

Is this something you can arrange, Todd, as the blogmeister? Does her email address just need to be added to some list?

Unknown said...

Let me look in to getting Margie signed up. I think I just need to send her an invitation. What is her e-mail address?

We thought the video was classic! Tell Felix we are sorry our entertainment came at his expense.

I wish we had a little hill in our backyard. Valerie asked Riley if she wanted to go outside today and build a snowman. She promptly replied "It's too cold!"

I wish I could argue with her on that one. It has warmed up slightly from the past few weeks - I think today's high is supposed to be 27. It hasn't been above freezing since the third of August.

Riley is now in Sunbeams (sp?) and loving it. I asked her teachers how she did the first week and they said she was great, but that everyone wanted to sit by her. I guess we could have worse problems.

I have to confess I made a very impulsive purchase a few weeks ago. Valerie sent me to Sam's CLub to get a water softener and I came home with the water softener and a 50' Plasma TV. Valerie still isn't talking to me, but I could have worse problems. Ok, while not thrilled with the purchase, Valerie IS talking to me. I just had to sell her on the fact that Oprah and Ellen are much more entertaining on the big screen.

This is one of the down falls of living in the frozen tundra, you make rash decisions while shopping at Sam's Club.

Keith - If you ever read this Blog - you need to answer your phone. Or at least post a brief blog every once in a while.