It's all in the details

So, R has lost 30+ pounds since Christmas. One day a few weeks ago, he walked out into the kitchen with his jeans pulled up past his navel, almost to his ribs- Steve Urkel style. I, of course, rolled my eyes and told him what a goof he was. When B walked in, he said "Wow Dad, is that a new belt?" Over the next 10 minutes, he alternately wore his pants Urkel-style, or down on his hips, as usual. Each time he changed, he asked the kids if they noticed anything different. I was standing off to the side laughing at their inability to notice it. One of the guesses was new glasses.??? He finally had to tell them.

Fast forward to this week. He made his first-ever truly impulse purchase, a TV. Now, we've always had a TV card in our computer, but never actually bought a set. R likes good monitors, and I have a thing against massive TVs, so it has always worked.* ....R set up the new TV in place of the monitor. He was just testing it out, when the kids came in. The first response from our two oldest was "Yea, you got a remote!" If only it were that simple (and cheap). In the kids' defense, they look very similar, the TV is only a few inches bigger than the monitor was. Still, I remember promising that when I was a parent, I would never laugh at my kids, at least never to their faces. Boy, I had no clue how many times I would break that promise! They are just too great.

*-Now I can snuggle with my honey on the couch and watch a show together. The monitor really was too small to watch across the room, so we'd end up sitting in his office with one good chair and a 'camping chair'. It's worked, but I told him I missed snuggling on the couch.


So how did such a type-A, detail-oriented person get kids who can't tell when someone has got his jeans up to his ribs? Sheesh!