Didn't Quite Make It

Ashlyn woke up at 5:30 to eat again. I brought my phone and was studying the lesson I have to deliver today and pondering over issues with kids. I sat rocking her for a while beyond when she finished eating. Enjoying her purity and squishy cute body curled onto me with perfect love and trust. I have not yet let her down or hurt her as is inevitable in the future to come. It's nice to be perfect somewhere when your other parts of life shout questions about how your doing things loudly in your face. I digress. It's been a deep thinking morning.

This post is really about Jacob. So I headed back to my bed 45 minutes later and saw this little guy. Now sure if he actually used the toilet and how long he's been sleeping in the bathroom on the floor. I guess he was just too tired to either climb up on the toilet or maybe just to go back to bed after he was done. I love this three year old!

Going Short

Maddie always wants to go get a haircut when the boys do. Today she decided to go a little beyond a simple trim after she got settled into the chair and she went chin length!

Stand Up

Just pulled up all by herself to play! Can't figure out how to reach the toys on the other side though. Still working on side stepping and balance so we don't pull the whole table over on ourselves. Her other exciting thing? Blowing raspberries. All day long. Just when we got rid of the slobber bib it may have to make a reappearance. Silly girl slobbers too much again. Maybe it's just her version of air conditioning to keep her shirt continuously soaked.

He finally gave up when we went to cook dinner and the tent was finally empty of six year old girls and quiet for 5 minutes. Poor boy is still fighting to get over his case of Delhi Belly. He's exhausted and has been crying over everything all afternoon but I couldn't snuggle or hold him because there was no where to put baby girl down. He did good at plowing through and sucking it up.

Poor Maddie Mae. We went camping today.

She forgot the conditions of where we were going. Then she got mad. "Can't I just pee in the grass?" she asked. No ma'am. You cannot just pee in the grass at Cub Scout camp.

Standard Price

What's the going rate at your house? You know, for everything. From the dinner plate to curtains to kitchen tables and living room windows. At my house it is $500. I tried $100 but at a certain point Ben decided that the $100 threshold was within reason and he could calculate how many weeks of allowance it would take to reach it. It was more than a week but still calculate-able. So everything I own that i don't want my kid to break costs $500. The kids and friends were just playing in our tent and I threw out the "Do you have $500?" threat/question. Ten minutes later I hear one girl ask her brother if he wants to pay $500. Hearing it out of her mouth made me realize how wildly ridiculous I must sound. Still it's kinda funny and gets my point across. I think everything will remain at $500.

How Many Kids Does It Take...

to clean up the oatmeal flakes all over the back wet kitchen? Three. I tried to distribute them evenly across three tasks in different rooms so there was no fighting but the allure of a broom and dustpan sucked them all to the back of the house. So far they are all getting along in that tiny, tiny space collecting the flakes into their dustpans.