What to do with Gasoline in Clothes

Today Judah was being a super helper to his dad, helping change the oil on the lawn mower. He held the cup to catch the oil as Jamie poured it out the spout. Unfortunately, our mower has a bad gas cap (that may or may not have been run over accidently) that leaks and when the oil poured out so did gas...all over Judah’s arm. He was a trooper though and didn’t move the cup at all, even while being doused with fuel. He came in reeking of gas so I grabbed his shirt and tossed it into a load of laundry I was just about to put in. BIG Mistake. Don’t ever do that. I didn’t even think or better yet, google. Needless to say I ended up with a load of laundry that all smelled of gas. And because I have a huge washer, it was a big load. So I went to my friend google and this is what I did salvage our clothes.

1. Removed the offending shirt and rewashed the load (this was before I googled).

2. Washed with 20 oz Coke, Baking Soda (a box full), and apple cider vinegar.

3. Soaked in baby oil all night long.

4. Rewashed with laundry soap.

5. Hung to air dry in the sun for 6 hours. (this finally killed the smell in most of the clothes)

6. Rewashed with laundry soap.

I still have yet to deal with the offending shirt, which sadly is his Seahawks champion shirt. We shall see if it survives. At least now I know what to do (and not do). Let this be a lesson to everyone else, learn from my mistakes. Now back to the rest of my laundry.

Historical Picture Recreation (Ben and Andrew)

Have you seen those pictures around the internet where grown adults “recreate” pictures from their childhood. Some are quite funny (and some are a bit disturbing). Well, while visiting my folks this summer I was looking for a picture in the album and stumbled across a really sweet one from 12 years ago of my cousins, Ben and Andrew. Well, the stars aligned and they happened to both be at the lake at the same time and it turns out we had almost all the original props too so we had to recreate it! So here it is the original from 2002 and the recreation from 2014.

Judah Prays

Judah just asked to pray at dinner tonight with our neighbors and did an amazing job. He totally nailed it, thanking God for the food and our friends. My favorite was part was when he thanked God for our neighbor's baby (she's pregnant) and our baby. He struggled a little at how to close it but Charlie, his buddy, jumped right in with a hearty AMEN!

Riding the Dog Like a Small Horse

The fact that Ally puts up with this astounds me. She is a great dog. Don't worry, I asked him to get off right after I got the picture. I love this example of Judah dressing himself. Camouflage pants and a striped polo shirt. Hey at least the colors match :)

Brothers!

Samuel is still a bit unsure of pictures with his brother.

My Clock is Yellow!

Today was a milestone. For months we have noticed that Judah is awful with colors. We don't think he's color blind, just really not interested in getting them down. Several months ago we got Judah a clock with colors that shows when he can get out of bed in the morning. Blue means stay in bed, yellow means get up. For months, every morning he comes into our room saying, "My clock is blue, I can get up!". It's actually yellow, so for months we've been saying, "You mean your clock is yellow?". Well, today Judah comes in and says, "My clock is yellow, I can get up!". Funny how it is exciting and sad all at once for him to have finally learned that.

Giant Leek

Last year we left a leek to winter over in the garden. We never got out to use it and when we finally started paying attention to the yard again noticed that it had flowered. It's hugely tall! Who knew leeks flowered, we didn't.