23 Diapers--now that's protection!!

I had to post these pictures, as weird as they may be. This is the scene I found this morning when I woke the boys up: Both Roy and Rex were on the top bunk (Roy's bed) fast asleep. Aaawww, how cute right? Then I noticed what Rex was wearing...a mass of pull-ups from his waist to his knees. I could not imagine why on earth he would have on so many diapers. He couldn't even move his legs, but there he was sleeping soundly as if the giant diaper cast were as comfortable as jammies.

I did what every good mom does when she finds her kids doing something bizarre--started taking pictures and posting them on the internet! (That's the beauty of living in this century--we don't have to wait a decade to submit them to the high school year book, we can begin the public embarrassment immediately.) Bo was out in the living room so I whispered, "Honey, you've got to come in and see this." We had a really good laugh, which woke up the kids. Not a bad way to wake up--both parents in fits of laughter standing next to your bed snapping photos. I can think of worse.

Anyway, we definitely needed an explanation so here's what Roy told us. After we put the boys to bed, Rex decided that he'd like to sleep in Roy's bed with him. Roy, concerned about Rex's bed wetting issue, said, "No way! You are NOT going to pee in my bed." Rex was persistent enough that Roy relented under the condition that Rex put on an additional pull-up "just in case." Rex decided to comply, but took it a few steps further. He put on every pull up he could find--23 to be exact. What could Roy say to that? There was no risk of leaking with a giant diaper leg.

A few amazing observations from mom...
1. How does one get to the top bunk when you can't move your legs to climb a ladder? (Roy says that Rex hopped.)
2. How does one sleep wrapped tightly from the waist down?
3. When we got to the bottom of the diaper stack, not one was wet! Now that is amazing--23 diapers and all of them dry.

Never a dull moment in the Buettenback household! Thanks for sharing a laugh with us...

Figuring it out....

OK, I finally decided to figure out how to post photos to my blog. Here is a recent one of the kids (although not that recent, since Rex gave up his mohawk awhile ago). This had to have been around Easter time because that's when they were really into Bionicles. Now it's all about Webkinz. I can't keep up--their interests seem to change daily. Rex looked at this picture and said, "I'm sweet." And yes, he means sweet as in awesome, not adorable. He is both though...that's why he can get away with a mohawk. Otherwise he'd just be kind of crazy lookin'.

Last week they both started swim lessons and loved it. This week, however, they're tired of it. On Monday, Rex's teachers had to bribe him with a popsicle just to get him in the water. She held him in one arm and held the popsicle out with the other one as he swam around chasing it...it was like watching an animal trainer at an aquarium, only they knew raw fish wouldn't work on him. Roy is trying to catch up with his friend Christian so he has motivation enough to keep going. As timid as he is, the competitiveness takes over and drives the fear away. Roy has passed 2 levels in 2 short weeks and yesterday he jumped off the diving board for the first time. Today is the last day and I think we're all pretty glad about it. Next week is VBS so we'll see how they do with it. I'm trying to keep them busy this summer so as not to completely feed their Webkinz addiction.

I'll try to post more, but I've tried before too so you know you can't trust me when I say that.