Ben's Poor Choices This Past Week.

The top 3 major offenses for this week:

1. Using his mattress as a slide. Which wouldn't have bugged me too much but they broke Jackson's crib in a major way and broke of a slat of his own bed while doing it...and it's questionable whether Jack's crib is still safe to even use.



2. He discovered that wet clumps of toilet paper stick really well to walls and ceilings. The kid's bathroom (that I just cleaned the day before) was covered in toilet paper wads as well as the playroom ceiling. Arrrrrrr. I only took a picture of the playroom ceiling because I had already made him clean the bathroom wads.



3. Finding out that Ben had pooped in our window well outside some days ago. Apparently he didn't want to come inside to do his business. (Unfortunately he learned this one from a friend a month earlier who had pooped in our window well.)

Ben and Jack's Stink Eyes

Evie's Stink Eye

Clearly, Ava's got us beat, but here's Evie stink eye.

stink eye challenge

The master of stink eye.

If your kid can do it better, that I challenge you to prove it. This is an official stink-off.

[Note: Ava is dressed.]

thank you easter bunny, bawk bawk

Easter was a success and the girls dove into their baskets of sweet treasure. We adopted the get-it-over-in-one-day method to candy allocation and the girls made good time of it. By 8am, they were flying high on sugar. Aaron and I decided to make breakfast, and I asked the girls, "Who wants an egg mcmuffin?" to which Lauren responded in utter disbelief, "You don't want to eat candy?"

We didn't get any takers and they continued feasting on candy. Still we had to try. So we asked if anyone wanted something real to eat. Bryn dug deep into her basket, retrieved a rice crispy treat, and said, "Look cereal." At that point we gave up. And today, it is successfully all gone (except for Lore, who still has half, and she should--she still has Halloween candy.)

Help Needed!

I'm trying to figure out what to do with the girls' sleeping arrangement. Right now they share a room, and it is not going well. They keep each other up late or wake the other up when one goes to bed before the other. I told Zoe when we move to the new house we are going to split them up. You would have thought I told her Quinn died. She was devastated. They love to be in the same room together. So I'm torn... what to do? Do any of you have thoughts on how to make sharing a room between a 4 yr old and a 18 month old work? Or should I just take the tears for awhile a split them up?

Luke's April Fool's Joke

Luke didn't want to be left out of the April Fool's fun so this morning he decided to completely empty a brand new bottle of kid's shampoo that I had purchased yesterday to replace the last bottle he completely emptied. I wasn't upset about the $1.88 I had spent. It was the fact that I had only purchased one more bottle instead of several and that I had let it happen again, right under my nose. Arrgghhh! At least I can't say no one got me on April Fool's.