When Jake gets angry.

When Jake gets angry or frustrated he takes his baseball hat and off his head and throws it as hard as he can on the ground.

Like a baseball player losing his temper with the umpire.

It's funny, but you can't laugh. Other people also find it funny.

Switching Jake's schedule.

We changed Jake's schedule to a later one and he's happier.

He used to wake up at 7am. The last two days he slept in until 9:00am.

We used to put him down for a nap around 1pm or 2pm.

Now it's 3:30pm.

He used to go to bed at 8pm. Now it's 9pm.

He seems to like it better. The only problem is we have one hour less time for ourselves at night.

I would hire the girl who works at McDonalds.

The other day we went through the McDonald's drive thru to buy $1.00 drinks. At the drive thru window we asked if the deal applied to ice tea as well. The girl said yes.

We got our drinks, paid and drove away.

I said to Cindy, "If I had a business, I'd hire that girl."

She asked why.

I said, "Because she's confident and talks in a loud voice."

We had ants.

The babysitter discovered ants coming in our front door. I spent 15 minutes stepping on them all and then I sprayed the front door with ant poison to block their entrance.

I waited about 10 minutes and stepped on all the other ants that I had missed. I swept up their carcasses and dumped them outside in the grass.

Then I mopped the floor with Mr. Clean.

Cougar at Jake's pre-school.

A few months ago when we were enrolling Jake in pre-school for this coming September, the teacher told us that the kids often go outside and feed the goats. A couple goats neighboured the pre-school.

A couple days ago in the paper I read that a cougar killed two goats in Maple Ridge. Conservation officers were hunting it. Guess what? It's the same two goats that Jake would have been feeding.

The owner came out at 9:30am in the morning to feed them and they were dead. She saw a cougar poke its head out of her barn.

Later, a professional houndsmen treed the cougar with his dogs and they shot and killed it. The city wanted it killed because they didn't want a dangerous cougar hanging around a preschool and daycare. Well done city!