you know he's done when this happens

summertime ice cream

eating dinner

Graham's not necessarily a bad eater, but sometimes we have to resort to pure silliness to get him to eat his veggies (and sometimes other foods as well).  Enter: the big spoon.

cold showers get old fast

One of the joys of home ownership is that you actually have to take care of your appliances when they break or stop working.  No landlords to call, here.  Bummer.  About a month ago our water heater stopped heating water.  I was the lucky one to discover that there was no hot water after I had already gotten in the shower.  We reset the breaker and it worked again.  Lucky us.  Last week, however, the same thing happened.  No hot water.  We reset the breaker, and nothing.  Bummer x2.  Naturally, neither one of us knows much about water heaters, so we called our dads to help us out.  We got some good advice.  My dad's an electrician, so he helped us figure out it was the heating element, since it was tripping the breaker.  So, we had to drain our water heater.  Our first try was a major fail.  We couldn't get it to drain.  After more phone calls to dads we figured out that there was calcium buildup blocking the drain.  Duh...  So we cleaned it out and drained the water heater.