Friends

Are there many things in this world better than hanging out with friends? I haven't written much lately so here is an update.(We went to the zoo with our friends this week. See the pictures? Niki thought the imprints of the worms on the wood looked like chinese writing and asked me to take a picture.) Niki started gymnastics again. She is excited and she had a blast her first day. I didn't take any pix though since we had company visiting us that day I didn't want to make them sit with us and watch Niki's class so we went to the library instead. This turned out to be a good idea for Mady but our company was as equally unimpressed by the library idea, go figure. We stayed a short while and then went to pick Niki up and go back to the house to hang out. The girls played "Horses" and watched movies. Mady and Niki have been playing together more lately and since there was a guest over things went pretty smoothly.

Friday night I hung out with my sister and Jules. We were @ Wal-Mart @ like 2 am getting paint for something we wanted to do Saturday. I am uncertain as to what time it was when we became delirious but here is the proof! We were yelled @ by some pissy Wal-Mart employee. Do these people know anything about Sam Walton?

All last week whenever we were home the place was a wreck. I am a person that needs it to appear as though there is some kind of order when in fact there is actually no method to my madness. Toward the end of the week the boys were getting into everything and I was running low on patience. No seriously, they were into EVERYTHING. I don't really keep anything on my kitchen counters but I do have a set of knives hanging on the kitchen wall near the stove on a magnetic strip. The boys have apparently grown tired of playing with the same old pots and pans under the cabinet and they decided they needed a change.

Luke and Ezra are still pushing the dining room chairs up to the counters and climbing onto the counters only now they have decided once they are on the counter (since I shut the water off underneath the sink so they cannot turn it on) that they must get into the cabinets when they are up there. They also got the knives down today...fortunately, I caught them when they only had one steak knife each in their hands but still, a scary moment. Picture this: You walk into your kitchen and see your 20 month old sons ATOP the STOVE leaning over to a nearby, yet far away for a baby, wall with one hand and holding steak knives in the other? It was a little scary. Once they saw me see them, they did the little laugh. You know the one, like some cartoon character with a twisted mustache-Wha ha ha! OK, maybe not exactly, but something like that. Once I pried the knives from their tiny hands I did laugh a little. Anyway, after a week of never ending laundry and maniacal baby laughs, bc there were more instances they needed to use those laughs, I needed to make a mess that I didn't mind cleaning up. So we painted...babies! Then I got my laughs. What did we learn this week? I am not sure. Do we need to keep measuring? I think we are pretty far gone into our unschooling world and we can't tell where the living stops and the learning begins, which I think is where we were headed. Dom thinks I am crazy...but that is for another entry.






Time for a nights rest, that was a long post. Good night ya'll.