Week in review
OK, so try to put off the fact that I was seriously spouting off yesterday in my post. It was truly out of frustration. With that, lets look back at a really weird week.
Thursday
My son fell face first out of the back door... from his high chair. Now before you report me to Child Protective Services, please understand that this was not so much a matter of negligence as it was the spirited nature of an almost two year old wanting to get up and run out of his high chair. My wife was outside with the other kids while my son was finishing lunch. One of my daughters thought it would be nice if my son could see what was happening outside, so she moved my son from near the kitchen table to near the wide open back door. It was a nice gesture. Not exactly the most well thought out gesture, but nice.
Anyhow, as my son was sitting in his bar stool height seat, strapped into his high chair, he decided enough was enough and he lurched himself forward. Out the door. On to the concrete in the back yard.
Boys are supposed to get banged up, right?
Yesterday
My daughter fell out of a window... Again, before you call CPS, remember that we have a full house, and that sometimes the kids do things faster than we can react. In a house of more than one child, things happen in 1 second intervals, and if you are not right on the scene of something about to happen, well, 2 seconds later when it does happen you find yourself 1 second too late.
Anyway, my youngest daughter, Alaynah, decided she would stand on her bookcase and open her own window, which until yesterday, I had no idea she could do. I also had no idea that she could thrust herself hard enough and high enough to get herself out of the window, through her scree and onto her face in the bushes below.
Honestly, this is the first of our children to make it out a window. AJ was not the first the fall out of a high chair (Rebekah, our second daughter did that when she was 15 months old and broke her arm in the process), but needless to say, one calamity in a week is usually enough. Two, well, I guess it should be expected in a household of our size.
The Akismet spam fighting plugin for WordPress
Does this thing work like a dream or what? I am so happy that I decided to install it. I have not seen an ounce of span since I did. Not on this blog or on my daughter Sarah's blog. I have to tip my hat to the developers of the Akismet application. It works like all good things should.
An acronym, my kingdom for an acronym
I have been putting together a framework/library for PHP in the last few months that I am hoping to be able to open to the community for immediate out of the box use. It is lightweight, fast, object-oriented and clean. The one thing that I cannot say about it is it is named. I cannot for the life of me come up with a name for this thing. I wanted to use acronym to describe the library, but I just cannot. No matter what I come up with, it stinks. The best I have come up with so far is SOOPA (Simple Object Oriented PHP Application) Library, OPAL (Open PHP Application Library) and, now that I think about it, this is it. That is the best. And that is not very good.
Anyway, as you can see, it has been a heck of a week. I am sure things will get much busier starting tomorrow as our weeks have a tendency to start off very fast paced. But, like I said before, what would you expect from a household of our size?
