He is his father's son

My younger boy had a recent homework assignment where he was given a timeline showing the days of the week, and asked to list imorportant things that happen during the week. This is what he wrote:

Monday: Lunch
Tuesday: Lunch
Wednesday: Lunch
Thursday: Lunch
Friday: Short day at school

At least he has his priorities straight.

Update: Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst syndrome

Thanks to my sister, I have a greater understanding of why the sun makes me sneeze. I am, apparently, a photic sneezer, and it is all due to some crossed wires in the brain. A trigger that should trigger my eyes, also triggers my nose. Stupid brain.

Apparently between 10% and 30% of people are photic sneezers, who like me, suffer from Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst syndrome (ACHOO).

Also, apparently I was on the right track with my experimentation thing. According to the article, if your eyes are closed, or if you are wearing sunglasses, you don't sneeze.

See the below article for more information.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=looking-at-the-sun-can-trigger-a-sneeze

Thanks Shannon!

Why does the sun make me sneeze?

Is it just me? Does this happen to anyone else? If I walk outside, and the sun is shining, most of the time, it makes me sneeze. It can happen any time of day (except after dark, obviously). I don't get it!

Are light particles traveling up my nose and tickling something?
Am I allergic to sunlight?
Is this a sign that I should just stay inside?
Why doesn't artificial light make me sneeze?
Why doesn't moonlight make me sneeze?
Or starlight?
Would it make a difference if I walked outside but had my eyes covered, or closed?
What if I was wearing an oxygen mask?
What if I was holding my breath?

Perhaps some expirimentation is in order.

Does anyone else have different, random, nonsensical sneeze triggers?

Motor Mouth

Do you ever hear the sound of a motor or some other electronic device and think that the device is talking to you?

We have a new son, he was born on Oct. 19. When we brought him home from the hospital, we got out the crib, the diapers, the carseat, and the swing.

The swing talks to me. It always has.

When the swing is on, the motion of the gears and the sound of the motor makes words. I don't try to put words in its mouth, I just listen to what it is saying. It is usually a 3 or 4 word phrase, which, of course, repeats itself over and over. From time to time the entire phrase or a part of it changes as you listen. When we got it out this time, and turned it on for the first time, I remembered.

Unfortunately, what the swing says rarely makes any sense. Below are some recent phrases.

"Green acres, I also"
"I am finished"
"have some blue"

Wouldn't it be better if it made sense?

Other Strange Child

Just so you don't get the impression that my older son is not strange like his brother, consider the following.

My older boy made me a thank you card in church this week. It said:

"Thank Moo, Thank moo dad, I hope you like football milk."

Below this was a picture of a cow.


I don't know.

Strange Child

My son is an oddball. A hilarious oddball. Today, he was doing his homework. When he was finished I told him:

Write your name on the page
Put the page in your folder
Put the folder in your backpack

He followed with:

Put the backpack in the oven
Put the oven on the rocketship
Put the rocketship on the moon

Then he walked out of the room.

What???