Turned the Corner

Now that Turkey Day and Black Friday are over, it is time to turn the corner and head to Christmas. We got started tonight by setting up a winter village in our house. As you've seen on here before, Everett loses his mind over villages. Unfortunately, he thinks they are just really luxurious toys.  This particular village was given to us by family...I'm not sure that sentimental note will keep it safe from him. After all, he already put his hippo toy in there and ran around saying it was a zoo.

Sneaky

I can't tell if Everett is about to sit on his sister, is sneaking away from his sister, or is squatting to potty on his sister. Either way, it is safe to say he isn't cooperating with taking this picture...

Strong Medicine

What is the best way to spend the morning when you are feeling under the weather? Did you say hanging on the couch with your big sister and two of your favorite stuffed animals while dressed as Spiderman? If so, you'd be very, very correct...

Water Works

After bath time tonight, I happened to glance into the toilet. This is what I saw ....

 

....At first, I wasn't sure if it was a dead lizard or some sort of animal coming up the pipes. However, upon closer inspection, I saw exactly what it was .....

....Apparently, Everett decided his rhinoceros was a water dwelling animal. I'm just glad I rescued him before he got flushed. 

Power

I generally take a second or two to terrorize my kids any time I vacuum.  This is easy because they both firmly believe I can/will suck them up in the vacuum. Naturally, that is impossible. However, they both also clean as hard as they can when we threaten to sweep up any toys left on the floor. Of course, that is also an empty threat...or so I thought. Apparently, as we learned tonight, our vacuum is mightier than we thought. This is what happened when Meggan accidentally came across a sock...

...it instantly got sucked all the way into the filter.  Maybe the kids better watch out after all. 

Training

Do you know what happens when your son is completely sleep trained and only halfway potty trained? Apparently, he sleeps so hard he dreams he is pottying, pulls his pants down, and sprays down his bed with pee. That happened last week. I thought it was an isolated incident until we checked his baby monitor two nights ago and all we saw was a naked toddler.  It's like having the world's smallest drunk living with you.  This should be fun.

Well Fed

As a parent, you are lucky enough to get the "pleasure" of having lunch with your children from time to time. Of course, it is always nice to see your little critters in their natural habitat. However, sitting in tiny chairs, eating school food, and having to peel them off of you while you head back to work sort of puts a damper on the situation. This year we had an added bonus - kids going to two separate schools with parent lunches on the same day.  Thanks to some coincidentally bad scheduling on my part, I was only able to attend Everett's lunch. Meggan, however, found a way to have lunch with Amelia, drive all the way across town, and have lunch with Ev as well. That's what you call being a great mom.