Zoe Quote

Here is a fun quote from Zoe...

Livy: I need to go potty really quick.

Zoe: You need to hurry so you don't go pee-pee in your undies.. (she thought for a second).. that's okay Mommy, if you go pee-pee in your undies you can wear my Ariel undies.

The Ariel undies are her favorite. I felt honored she would even offer.

mad skills

Today I opened our door that leads to the garage and an alarm went off. Our condo has an alarm but we don't set it, nor were we given a code for it. Somehow Bryn punched in a code to arm the system. It took 15 minutes before I got the code from the management company to disable the blaring house alarm. I don't know where she gets the skills but she's got them.

Little Angels

I don't know why you all are complaining. My girls are angels. They never do anything wrong. Hee hee, I guess, just after Ben's excavation nothing seems so severe anymore. Good luck SunBun.

Moving trauma

Just as I was signing the moving papers with the movers, little bryn skunked off to her room. The movers had left out a permanent sharpie. When I found her, the ink had already dried. I didn't take these pictures until after mad scrubbing with ultraforce magic eraser. As you can see, it didn't even dent the destruction. I put ten coats of base paint on it before it faded into a shadow. many tears on this one. This was a cherry on my fabulous two days of moving madness.

oh Bryn, sweet potty talk Bryn

"I tooted a booger."
"Bryn!" I shout from the front of the car.
Giggling she responds, "On purpose!"

Ben came upstairs holding the bathroom rod. Apparently he was swinging from a vine in the jungle. Ben said, "Mom I was just swinging and it just broke...it's o.k. Dad can fix it."
I did think Jonathan might be able to fix it. So I left the rod on the bathroom floor so it wouldn't get taken to be used as a toy and I locked the door. A week later we had another incident....which leads me to the next Brava award.

A Boy's version of playing 'house'

So the kids and I were downstairs cleaning up the playroom and we were all most finished when I decided I needed to put a load of laundry into the dryer. I was gone 5 minutes. When I started to come down the stairs Ben tried to block me from going into the playroom....never a good sign. I got passed him and he immediately ran upstairs to hide. So I braced myself for something bad. At first I didn't see it and then there it was... a tennis ball sized hole in the little school house. I look at the hole closer and I can see all the way through it. So I look inside the house and gasp. There was a zig zag hole about a foot and 1/2 long!

And I'm thinking how did he create such a huge hole? Well remember the bathroom rod? He had found a dum dum sucker stick (Emily gets them for keeping her panties dry all day.) and had unlocked the bathroom door with it and retrevied the rod. He then bent it like a crow bar and started to hack away from the inside.

When he would finally talk to me about what happened. (Whenever he's done something bad he always says, "I don't want to talk about that right now." And will walk away.) He told me he was a construction guy and he needed to look inside the wall to see what it looked like....in case there were any mice or animals inside that needed to get out.

We've now discussed just asking me first and we will look it up on the internet to see how something is made or how something works.