I have no picture to put to these words because my blogging can only go so far. I had an opportunity ( or so I thought) to call Melissa today and chat for just a bit before I had to walk down to the school to pick up Sawyer. Not long into the conversation I heard Sidon coming down the hall crying and saying ' I'm sorry Mom, I didn't know it would stick.' He rounded the corner and what met my eyes I can honestly say was a new one. He and Maggie had gotten some bubble gum from the stash of parade candy and after getting his nice and soft, and sticky, he had stretched it into a long rope of sorts and wrapped it around his neck. I would like to see into the mind of a five year old and know how that train got rolling. I told Melissa we had a 'situation' that needed my immediate attention. As any who are familiar with the Green genetic knows, the hair grows in abundance, everywhere! Poor Sidon had gum stuck in all the those little hairs around his whole neck and try as I might to be careful he let out a scream with every little piece of gum I could actually get pulled off. After watching Food Detectives just yesterday on how best to get gum out of hair we tried their best alternative, cooking oil. So now I have a crying greasy child and it is 2:40 and school gets out at 3:00. I put him in the tub and wiped as gently as I could at the remaining sticky strands. His neck was starting to look horrible and red so we decided to just wear off the rest. Out of the bath, into clothes and a little Neosporin for the road and we headed down to the school. As we walked home I had to laugh, as I will many times when I think of this story, I asked Sidon if he learned anything about gum and his reply was, 'It only belongs in your mouth!'. Lesson learned!

The River

The temperature has been in the triple digits

for almost two weeks and we finally

decided that instead of hiding in the house

we would spend some time at the river.