Questions....

Okay, let's play a little jeopardy:
Here is the clue:
This was the reason Leland used the vacuum cleaner on the roof of the house.
(i am making it multiple choice)
What is...
a) The roof was just dirty and he was in a cleany mood
b) He wanted to scare the cat that was on the roof making a lot of noise
c) He used it to suck up the water from the gutter
d) he used it to suck up the umbrella that Stoney had dropped in the gutter while 'fishing'.

And the correct answer is .... d (allthough I must say that b is not all that unlikely)
The boys have great fun with the skylight in our attic. On this day they had taken their umbrellas upstairs, hung them out of the sky light dangling on their cords and of course Stoney's umbrella got hooked behind something and didn't make it back up. So Stoney comes back downstairs and tells Leland that he went fishing and lost his umbrella.
Leland tried to reach out over the roof, but couldn't get the umbrella. He tried hooking it on to something, but still couldn't get it. Finally he got the ingenious idea to use the vacuum cleaner. He hung the vacuum hose out of the sky light and abracadabra ... Back up came the umbrella.

An couple of days earlier the boys had also played with the sky light and -unbeknown to us - opened it up all the way and then left it that way. Then a huge rain storm came over and next thing you know, a puddle the size of lake superior on our bed. (our beds are right under the skylight)


Other questions
These are all question Stoney has, that usually seem to be in need of an immediate answer right at bed time:

• "Do Daddy kangaroos have a pouch and if yes, why?"
• "Do sharks eat Octopusses?"
• "What happens when snow hits fire? What if it is a lot of fire and just a little bit of snow? "What if it is the other way around?"
• "What happens when water hits the sun?"
• "If ham is meat from a pig, how do they get the blood out?"
• "What happens when paper gets wet? what about plastic? what about metal? what about rubber?"
• "How does a caterpillar know how to build a cocoon?"
  
• "What happens when lightning hits water?"
• "Why does Santa not get dirty when he goes down the chimney?

And on and on....

Then there are Stoney's other questions in the category "I don't know". Meaning, that that is the only answer i can give to the question.
"Why is the bus late?" (I don't know)
"Why has the train conductor not come yet?" (I don't know)
"If we are not stopping for a train station, then why is the train slowing down?" (I don't know)
"Why is that car going faster then the train?" (I don't know)
"Why does that cloud have a silly shape?" (I don't know)
"Why is that man riding his bike so fast?" (I don't know)
"Why didn't they make a bus station closer by?" ( i don't know)
And on and on... Like Niagara falls, going on and on.
At least in the first category, i could look up the answers in an encyclopedia or the internet or something if I wanted too.
Monty got a "big-boy-bike" for his birthday and this weekend he finally rid it. He was a littel afraid of it because it is so much higher then his trike. But now he likes it.
Here is the first pictures: