Thursday, August 18, 2011

New Uses For Old Items: Specimen Container Edition


Among the more interesting things on my nightstand right now is a never-used urine specimen container with three marbles in it.

One of Million's new favorite toys.

You can't use those containers if the seal has been broken prior to your collection.
And let's say we had a "bad collection" in which someone broke the seal on the container thinking the little sticker collection baggie wouldn't have fallen off. Someone turned out to be wrong.

Last night after doing everything possible to tire a child, I decided I needed a 20-minute nap before Michael left for the evening.

It was during that 20-minute "nap" (read:covering my face with a pillow and pretending I wasn't in the same room as the boys) that Michael put the marbles in the urine specimen container. The boys (all three of them) marched and swaggered proudly around the house with their noise-maker. Michael employed his best crazed scientist voice and was shouting "Million, take precautions with your specimen." There may or may not have been jokes about kidney stones passed back and forth between the adult members of our secret scientific society.

Not thinking we'll ever lead a "normal" life, from the way it's looking.

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