Of milking cows and other things

So the potty training thing is slow going. He almost makes it to the bathroom, or he makes it and then goes after I pull his pants up. Fun. The highlight of our first day was after 5 hours of Nathan not peeing, Cody comes up with a brilliant, very joking idea.
"If he's holding it in, why don't we just milk him like a cow to get the pee to come out?"

Needless to say, I was ready to pee myself because I was laughing so hard...and Cody, while thinking it was funny, really didn't realize why it was so much more funny to me. All I could do was to simply look at him through teary eyes and say, "One day you will understand why that is even funnier to me than you." Didn't realize that bodily functions would ever be so funny.


Experiments:
In my quest to find dinners that are cheaper, easier to heat up in the micro (as I do all my cooking for the week in one day and then heat stuff up during the week), and, well, cheaper. Hello, three growing boys and another one that eats like he's still growing... ???!!!???

So, tuna fish is cheap right? Okay, so I took some tuna fish, frozen peas, a can of cream of mushroom soup that I had in my cubbard that hadn't expired(I usually abhor using that b/c its sooooo processed), goat milk, some salt and peppter, bisquick, and an egg - mix it all together and put it in the oven. It looked gross, but taste wise not so bad. I'm thinking, this could be a doable option for a casserole for our family once every few weeks. Easy to make, cheap, and made some rice pilaf to go with it. Cody says, "It smells good, but the aesthetic value is lacking." What is that about? I mean his vocabulary...
However "aesthetically" unpleasing as it looked (see pic), the kids ate it up with very few comments - "yum, snort, scarf, scarf, and a few mumbled mmm this is good." So I guess after 13 years of cooking, I can finally put a meal together by doing some research on what flavors go together and just making it up as I go. Praise God in Heaven for that, as well as for the internet to do the research.