A few things...

This week I learned....

• Shopping carts with children in them WILL roll away in high winds.
• Benjamin says elephant, "effa-nent."
• When the furnace repair man comes to your house and stays for 1.5 hours, it will cost you $120.
• Pictures don't look good when you forget to clean grubby finger prints off your lens.
• I can wear two babies rather comfortably.
• 2 year olds in high heels scratch laminate flooring.
• baby gates are awesome.
• Target is evil with good deals.
• Crayon washes easily off of tile.
• You think kids forget stuff. They don't.
• It is possible to mow the lawn with three children standing by.
• It is not possible to weed the landscaping and keep dirt off the sidewalk, rocks, porch, and van.

Motherhood. ♥

Rice Fight.

I got this box and a 20lb bag of rice a week or so ago. Ben and Ev really think it's fantastic. Actually, even I think it's pretty fun.

My darling older two fought ALL day long. We did room time, we did time outs, I yelled...they screamed at each other, they hit, Evey bit...my goodness it was a long day. Today was probably the worst fighting day ever. I was losing my mind. So after lunch I got out the rice box, in the hope that it would distract them enough to leave each other alone.

The 3rd photo depicts otherwise, and after 10 minutes of play they were throwing rice out of the box, all over the floor, then they got in the box, then Mommy took the box away and offered a snack instead.

It probably doesn't help that Ben has a cough and they both have faucet style runny noses. Ugh.

It was a long day, and I am exhausted. It's after midnight...I need to sleep.

I will be sad when Benjamin stops saying "topa-waper" and starts saying toilet paper.

We're going to the beach, the beach, the beach!

Today we headed to the Ocean.

The first time we've been since living in Washington.

We went with friends.

It was beautiful and vast...

...and windy and cold.

Benjamin hated all of it...except when I distracted him with shell crunching.

Even then, he refused to let go of my hand.

I certainly was not allowed to take any pictures of him.

We saw a dead seal.

Someone shot it. :(

Evey ended up covered in sand, but not at the beach.

Throughout the day, I laughed.

A lot.

It was a good.

All of it ended with a blizzard from Dairy Queen.

=)