Daycare Drawing

This masterpiece was drawn by Jaden at daycare yesterday.

It's an elephant! Get your mind out of the gutter!

Jones, let me know if you want Jaden to handle the illustrations for your next comic book.

Jaden's New Brothers?

The other day Jaden was going on and on about her two brothers. I didn't think two much about it at the time. After all, she is three. I just figured she was talking about some other kids in her class or maybe she had some imaginary friends. No big deal.

Over the next couple of days she continued to talk about her two brothers. I told her she didn't have any brothers. Only a baby sister. That was the wrong thing to say. I have never seen her get so mad. I mean really mad. How dare I tell her she didn't have any brothers! This went on for a while so I decided to play along.

"Jaden, what are your brothers names?"

"Joe and Steve!"

"Joe and Steve huh."

"Yeah! There the best big brothers ever!"

"OK"

"Steve is at college. He's not here right now."

"What? Steve is at college?"

"Yeah! It's really far away."

Then is dawned on me who Joe and Steve were. They are the two really creepy, weird guys that are on Blue's Clues. Well, actually Steve is no longer on the show. In the show he did just what Jaden said. He went to College and Joe took his spot.

Once I figured this all out I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in my life. Now every afternoon on our drive home I ask Jaden about her brothers and she gives me a very detailed account of what Joe and Steve are up to. Too funny!

In case you haven't logged aver 2000 hours hangin with Blue like I have. Let me fill you in. Steve is on the left and Joe is on the right. If you don't know now you know!

New Mower

Check out my new (to me) mower! This bad boy has a 33" cut, and 14 horsepower of grass annihilating power! It sure beats my old 22"cut, 4 horsepower walmart special. I love it! I looked a long time for a used commercial walk behind that wasn't thousands of dollars and my persistence paid off with this beast. After a few evenings of mower modifications I was ready to try her out. It took some work but I got the mower deck height up to 4.25" and it cut great, but something wasn't quite right.

Something was still missing......A ZEBRA STRIPE mower modification system.......of course! Since my new mower was bigger and badder than my old crappy push mower I decided I needed to bulk up my old ZEBRA STRIPER and come up with a new design. After many sleepless nights I came up with a new idea. Now I just had to make my dream a reality! The picture below is the new and improved ZEBRA STRIPER 2.0 brought to life. After installing the ZEBRA STRIPER 2.0, my new mower is now fit to cut the finest turf grass in KC (aka, my yard).

Leastman's 30th Birthday

The weekend of June 20th and 21st Erica and I went to Andover KS to visit my best friend, Brian "I DON'T DRINK DIET COKE!!!!!" Leastman, and celebrate his 30th birthday. We dropped off our kids at Erica's mom's for the weekend and spent a much needed kidless weekend together.

Friday night we went to "old town" in Wichita. We started the evening off at a mexican restaurant. It was more authentic food than the typical mexican restaurant. It was SOOOO good! SOOOO good!

I think the funniest part of the weekend happened during dinner Friday night. Occasionally, Brian and I will dare each other to do dumb embarrassing stuff just to make each other look like an idiot. My dare from Brian came the Tuesday before our weekend festivities. He called me and wanted me to grow a handlebar mustache to wear out to the bar on Friday night. Not being one to refuse a dare, especially one involving something as easily accomplished as growing facial hair I accepted. I even wore a hot pink polo shirt to emphasize my stache and draw as much attention to my self as possible.

My dare to Brian was during dinner Friday night. Earlier in the week Brian's wife Dietra made reservations for 15 people at River City Brewery. The original celebration plan included a large dinner with Brian's friends and siblings followed by a night out at a local bar. Due to unforeseen circumstances Erica and I were the only people able to make it out early enough for diner.

During dinner Dieta's cell phone rang......it was River City Brewery. She recognized the number and didn't answer. Dietra had forgot to call River City and cancel the reservation. A few seconds later her phone rang again. It was River City Brewery.

This is when my dare to Brian comes into play. I told Brian he had to call River City back and cancel the reservation. No big deal right. Right. But he had to tell them he couldn't make it due to his rampant diarrhea. He agreed and called River City. This was Brian's end of the conversation.

"Hi, this is Brian Leastman and I had a reservation for 15 at 7:30. Yeah, I need to cancel that reservation."

"Right, we wont be able to make it. ( giggle, giggle) My wife has rampant diarrhea! (giggle, giggle)It's pretty bad!"(giggle, giggle)

"OK, thanks."(Giggle, giggle)

Just to be clear to my knowledge Dietra did not have rampant diarrhea. That was Brian's failed attempt at being clever and funny. Who am I kidding. It was hilarious! I had beer coming out my nose!

The rest of the evening was great. After diner we went to and met up with some friends at the Brickyard, listened to some live music and had a few drinks. We even had a real live drunken leprechaun pass out at our table! It was a great weekend. Welcome to your 30's Leastman! Your first hip replacement is just around the corner.

Hendren's Visit "The K"

I'M BACK!!! I haven't posted anything in about two months! Shame on me! It seems that once summer rolls around everything is just so busy. Stay tuned because I have alot to catch everyone up on.

A few weeks ago Erica's employer treated us to a family outing at "The K". If you haven't made a trip to "The K" to check out the stadium renovations it is definitely worth your time. Believe it or not I think Jaden was more excited to go to the game than I was. All she talked about for two weeks prior was going to see the Royals. I think she was really disappointed when we got to our seats and she figured out that we were just there to watch. She couldn't believe we didn't get to participate.

Before the game we met some friends in the parking lot to tailgate. Shortly after meeting our friends Jaden started doing the pee-pee dance. If you have kids you are all too familiar with the dance I speak of. It's the dance that starts the second you get anywhere in public and a restroom is no where to be found. I asked her if she could hold it untill we got inside the stadium and her answer was "I gotta go SOOOOO bad!", so waiting was out.

There were two options left.....port-o-potty.....or squat between some cars. Since I really hate taking a leak in a port-o-potty my self I decided to try the squating option first. I took Jaden between some cars and told her to pull down her pants, squat, and let her go. Jaden looked at me like I was crazy and refused to pee on the ground. The only other option was the dreaded port-o-potty!!!!

I scooped up Jaden and started the trek over hell's half acre to wait in the 15 min line, hoping Jaden didn't pee all over me and herself during the wait just to use the disgusting, smelly, foul portable toilet. When we entered the toilet and Jaden saw 500 other peoples waste in the toilet she burst into tears and almost scratched out my eyes to get outside. She was screaming and carrying on and I have no doubt that the people waiting in the line thought I was trying to shove her through the lid! After all this work and comotion Jaden still hasn't gone pee! So we headed back to the tailgating festivities to figure out our next plan of attack.

When we finally got back to the tailgating festivities I was just going to go inside the stadium and end the pee-pee dance-athon but one of Erica's friends came to the rescue with a spare pull-up. Brilliant! I slapped that sucker on Jaden and the pee-pee dance stopped! All that for one little girl to pee. Overall we all had a great time and can't wait to find time to go back........with a pee-pee plan in place, of course!