Dani's big bed and yet another fish story!

Chris and I have been putting off building the toddler bed and having to move the cribs around until Tuesday afternoon when the little ape decided it was high time for her to try and climb out of the crib. Dani has been climbing anything and everything this last week. I have caught climbing into her highchair, on the coffee table, the end tables, the kitchen table, and the computer desk. Its not that I don't watch her, it takes her all of 5 seconds to get to where she wants to be. She is a fast moving kid. So her trying to climb out of the crib was the deciding factor on when to build the toddler bed. So far she seems to really like having a big girl bed. The first night went great and without incident. The second night, however, did not go so smoothly. I heard her do a little whine and then this great big CRASH!!! She started wailing so I went in and here is Dani face planted flat out on the floor screaming to beat the band! Thank goodness it isn't that far off the floor and she wasn't hurt, could you imagine if she had fallen out of the crib! Dani's crib was moved to Zach's room and the crib from Zach's room will be moved downstairs for future use.

On Thursday we went to town for a going away party for friends of ours that are moving to Old Crow. The kids and I stayed the night and did some grocery shopping yesterday and headed home. I bought some new rock and six new fish for the fish tank. I waited around for Dani to go to bed so I could clean out all the old rock, clean the tank and put the new rock in. I had cleaned the whole tank and had all the decorations in and had it three quarters full of water when the son of a bitch cracked straight across the back! Thankfully it didn't shatter like the ones in the commercials do, but it still leaked water all over my kitchen floor! So last night all of my fish were given a new home for the night - the kitchen garbage can! I filled it full of water and hooked the pump and filter up to it and plopped them all in there. Surprisingly they are all still alive!

So I went back to Whithorse today to buy a fish tank! I always hear Wal Mart employees complain about their wages - I am a firm believer that some of them are paid solely on their IQ. If your IQ is around 8 then you get $8.00 an hour. I phoned ahead of time to see if they had any 30 gallon tanks available. The guy I talked to on the phone was a friggin moron!!! I asked him the dimensions of the tank so he asked me well do you want me to go measure? I said yes please. So 5 minutes goes by and I'm on hold - it was on his dime so I didn't care. He comes back on the line and was like ummmm I forgot to take a tape measure with me so I measured it with my hand. Picture me sitting here in my housecoat - eyes rolling to the back of my head, shaking my head, silently slapping my forehead trying to figure out how out of 100,000,000 sperm that one got through! So then bone head says to me I just have to go measure my hand I'll be right back ok. So I am sitting here thinking - while listening to cheesy WalMart radio music - I know that WalMart is an equal opportunity employer but this was really pushing it. Why didn't he just take the tape measure that he used to measure his hand and go and measure the damn fish tank! So anyway I go into town and go to WalMart. I get somebody paged to pets and then I wait 20 minutes and then I go find somebody and he finds somebody else who in turn takes me to the tank. You will not believe who helped me!!! Well, he is just as useless in person as he was over the phone! I wanted to get a few more fish so I was picking them out and he dropped one on the floor and then tried to cover it up by giving me the half dead fish. I made him put it back in the tank! Anyway home I come and start un loading the fish tank. Chris and I thought we would have to knock out a row of tile on the top of the fish stand cause he said it was 31 and a half inches. Somebody should tell this guy to open the damn box next time!!! I measured the tank when I got home - it is the same length as the old tank and 2 inches taller. We got it all set up and it looks just a great as the old tank.

I will post some pictures of Dani and her new bed tomorrow - right now I am going to drag my ass to the shower and then to bed.

Night all.