Tim's Brush With Death...What??

OK- maybe my title is a bit dramatic, but just read what happened to Tim today...
As most of you know, Tim has been traveling for work and he's gone 5 days a week. (He's training people.) Anyways, he left from Knoxville's airport today, flew into Cincinnati, and then got on a plane to Detroit. He sent a text and told me he was boarding and he would call me later. Well...
15 minutes later he called again. What?? He said they took off and had to land immediately for an emergency. Again...WHAT?? Here is what Tim told me...
"We took off and heard the landing gear going up, then SMOKE started coming in the plane. Alarms started going off and the Pilot came over the loud speaker and told us to prepare for a crash landing! As we got closer, I could see firetrucks and ambulances lined up on the runway."
Luckily, the landing was only rough, and not catastrophic and everyone was able to get off safely.
Nothing like a little airline scare to put things in perspective, right?
Anyways, Tim is fine now. He was a little shaken, but who wouldn't be, right? He is now in Wisconsin and driving to where he is supposed to be.
Just wanted to let everyone know what had happened today, and to remind everyone to always let the person you love know just how much you do love them, and love your babies (if you have them).
I am fine, but if I think about what could have happened, it scares the crap out of me. In the blink of an eye, I could've been widowed at age 27 and my 2 year old could have lost his idol (and he would not have understood it).
PS- He did tell me that when they got on a different plane, Delta offered them something for their troubles...a free cocktail. Yes, let's get them drunk so maybe they will think it was all a drunken dream. Yippie! I guess they consider letting you live a win!
Scary...

Aquarium Fun!

Friday we went to the Aquarium. Tim came home from his business trip on Thursday so we wanted to get out and do something fun! And since we have season passes, this was fun...and free! The best kind of fun, right? LOL!
Enjoy the pics!


Kainaan, The Mad Scientist


Turn this, push that...


In the tunnel under the water tank, Kainaan says, "Oh My Goodness" as the sharks swim over.


Look closely, there is the only sea turtle our aquarium has. He's hard to photograph!


Since it was a school/work day for people, the aquarium was empty (which was so fun and relaxing) so I was able to ask a worker about this. The story goes...This was the 1st day the aquarium opened, and the sharks were not used to people being under them and being so close. So it made them swim fast with their mouths open toward the people and the rammed into the glass causing scratches. Cool story, huh? That would have been so cool to see!
*And another story about the sharks...Tim asked if the sharks ever eat the little fish swimming with them. The answer...Yep! It happens regularly, but they try to control it by over feeding the sharks. Why can't that happen when we are there? That would be....educational??


He is so curious!


Oooooooooo Barracuda! I love that song by Heart and sing it to myself every time we get to these guys! Yeah, I know, I am goofy!


I can't remember what type of fish this is but it was in the tank with the Blow fish. Is it the ugliest fish ever of what!?!?


Yeah lets get another look...Nope...still ugly!


Kainaan loved pressing the buttons. It told about the different parts of a fish.


LOL! He wasn't expecting it to talk!


Very cool looking venomous fish!


This fish is so pretty and different.


NEMOOOOOO!!!!


Back to the talking fish!


Pretty Seahorse!


Can't remember his name...


This guy is now the oldest fish in the tank, of his species, his friend died a month ago. I noticed the big guy, that never moved, was not in his usual spot, so I asked where he was and that's when we were told that he died. I can't be sure but I think the worker told us he was over 100 years old when he died! Cool, huh?


The boy loves to play with anything with a steering wheel!


Looks like a stick bug, but a stick fish! Haha!


Peek-A-Boo!

Kainaan is Faster than Fast

Kainaan got his first big boy bike for Christmas, and its none other than a Thomas Bike! He did a great job after the first hour or so. See, he rides his tricycle very well, but he can pedal backwards on that...and not so much on the bike...you know pedals going backwards on a bike equals brakes! It took a little bit for him to grasp that concept. But once he figured it out, he was off! Now if only we had a flat road like Granny and Pop's place, I could lose some serious weight! I have to jog to keep up with him. We will try to go to the school parking lot after school hours and when the weather is better.

Enjoy the video!

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

OK- I have been playing with my Windows Movie Maker trying to get the hang of it and I finally figured out how to cut clips! YAY! So bear with me, I might start posting lots of things I catch Kainaan doing on video! :-)

Here he is singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider. He must have learned it at school because when we started singing it, he picked it right up! He knows so much but he doesn't let us know! Its like his own little secrets!

Enjoy the video!

Tim Hula Hoops

OK- I finally got my Video camera software set up on my laptop and we finally downloaded ALL of our video clips...that took forever. Well, my hubby told me that if you record someone with the camera turned on its side so you don't cut them short, then we can rotate it once its downloaded...WRONG! We have yet to figure out how to do it, or if we even can. If anyone knows how, please let me know.

Anyways, here is Tim playing on the Wii Fit at his parents house during Christmas! We all did it and its a blast! We have never laughed so hard, and got a wonderful workout at the time! So, the game Tim played was the hula hoop challenge. You have to stand on the Wii Fit board and swirl your hips like you are hula hooping. While you do that it keeps count and then out of nowhere, hula hoops are thrown at you and you have to catch them. The more you catch, the more spins you get. It keeps count for you and it becomes a competition. Its soooo fun! And your abs HURT like you just did a million crunches.

Anyways, I apologize for the sideways video, but I promise you will laugh your butt off!

Puppy Love & Bouncing Fun

Our friends, TJ & Karissa were for New Year's and had their puppies with them. Kainaan fell in love with Chase and HAD to hold him. His face just lit up...making me think, "We need a puppy for Kainaan." LOL! Tim on the other hand, is not easily moved to go get one. My argument is that Dipsy and Chewy are older and do not like Kainaan as much because he is so unpredictable and it scares them...a puppy would be introduced to Kainaan's shenanigans right off the bat and would grow up to love playing with him...???? :-) I guess 3 dogs, 3 fish (soon to be 9), and 2 frogs might be a bit much. I guess we can stick to low maintenance fish. (The filter on our tank is AMAZING!)
As for the rest of the pics...We went to the Bounce place on Friday since Tim was off. We had a blast as always. See for yourself!
Enjoy all of the pics!

Isn't Kainaan just beaming!

He thinks he is such a big boy holding Chase all by himself!

Kainaan just adores him. "Let me tell you 'bout my best friend."

Oh Kainaan, please don't choke him!

"Chetch Daddy!"

Mommy's turn to 'chetch' the ball.

Don't get me Daddy!

Weeee!

C'mon Daddy!

Pull! He is such a big boy!

C'mon Mommy! 'Chetch' me!

Tim playing with the inflatable air hockey table. Kainaan thought it was magic.

Happy New Year!

So, who can believe that we are now in the year 2009? WOW! Where did 2008 go? I just wanted to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year!

And you know I can't post a blog without pics, and since I have no pics for the New Year celebrations, I will post pictures from Paw paw and Karen's trip here. Paw paw came into town and spoiled Kainaan rotten. We graduated from a 2 1/2 gallon fish tank to a 28 gallon fish tank, and Kainaan's room is finally complete with a new bookcase and curtains! Yay!! One room down, and the rest of the house to go...

Kainaan "helping" Paw paw put up his curtains.

And his bookcase and curtains. (I still have to put the rest of books on it.)

My little carpenter.

Our new do...the bridge and skeleton move up and down with air tubes.

We have our original orange guppy-who is a bully- and 2 Mickey Mouse fish. They are called that because on the back of the body by the tails, is 3 black spots that make the shape of Mickey's head. Its pretty neat! And we also have 2 new dwarf frogs in there, our old one died. Kainaan thinks he is sleeping...but what do you tell a 2 year old when the frog is not in there, right? He thinks the 1 of the new frogs is his old one.

Right angle and left angle views of our tank.

Tim and I were actually thinking about buying the stand for it and putting it in the living room. So if we do that, I will post a pic of that then.