Clocks, Bubbles and Sleepwalking

I must have a pretty boring life. I sat here at my computer this afternoon, in my normal afternoon nap for the baby boys time slot. Not a single idea for a post came to me. My mind was just blank. So I just wandered around the other blogs I read and figured I guess I just don't need to post today.

Then tonight things got a little silly. During a commecial break during ER (yes I still watch it) my husband got up to get his computer bag. While I was sitting there complaining about the obvious political agenda of the writers of the show he handed me something in a bubblewrap bag. I looked at him he said, "It's my clock for reaching my ten year anniversary at work." Ah, they had a little awards luncheon today. He's actually been working there 13 years, but they start counting from the first fiscal year he was full time. So I pulled out the little clock from it's baggy.
Here it is:



I had to scan it to have a picture of it. I'm not sure where I hid my camera from the almost two yr-old.
My husband said it was okay to leave on the name of the college where he works. He said, it's good advertising.
So, if you are really curious about Rio Salado College, they have an excellent online course program. You can visit them here.

Well, I congratulated my husband and told him I thought the little 4" clock would be a cute paperweight on my his desk. I then went back to watching TV, with the clock on my lap and the bubblewrap bag in my hands. I absentmindely started popping and popping and popping. I had so much fun that by the time the show was over, I couldn't find any remaining bubbles to pop. I remember, my dad would get bubble wrap when he order dental supplies, he would give it to us kids. We would cut it into equal size pieces and just go to town. What a racket we made, but it was oh so fun!

Now, my kids love bubblewrap too. I had a big role of it that we used part of for a party game when my daughter turned 6 last winter. I also had the role because I went through a brief ebay period. I might yet return to it, who knows. So, I wasn't planning on my kids popping my bubblewrap. I thought I might just need it. It was too enticing tho. Despite my warnings to leave it alone, they ended up completely popping it. They had a ton of fun with it. It took me back to my love of it as a kid.

So there I sat tonight, popping away while ER played out in front of me. People died, people went crazy, people were very sad through most of it. At the end of the show, my husband laughed at me. He asked if I'd gotten them all and I said sadly that I had.
Here is what is left of the bag. If you look close, you will see not a bubble left inflated.



I guess bubblewrap is more toy than useful tool in this house.

Now, bubblewrap is plenty amusing all on its own, but my son provided the exclamation point to the night. My 8 yr-old, wonderful excitable boy, is a sleepwalker. Not so crazy a sleepwalker that we have to tie him to bed or anything. But, when he wakes up in the night needing to pee, he sometimes fails to fully wake up. Most of the time he has no problem peeing in the toilet in his sleep (there was that one time he pee'ed in the hallway, thank goodness for tile!). Tonight was one of the nights he didn't make it back to bed. He came out to the living room, turned and went through the kitchen to the kitchen table. He crawled over the chairs to the one in the corner and sat, then put his head down on his arms on the table.

He had been finishing up his homework at that table just before heading to bed, so I think his mind was reliving doing homework or something. More like a nightmare if you ask me. Husband walked over and asked him if everything was ok. He said a sleepy yeah. Husband then told him to go to bed, he said ok. He stood and went back to bed. Very funny. All the while I sat in the living room, trying to find one last bubble to pop.

I think I need to buy some bubblewrap and then use it as an incentive for my kids to complete their chores. That is if I can keep from popping it all first.