i love the spring and summer with little kids!! yesterday i gave the girls breakfast at 7:30, they were outside by 7:45, and when i fed them dinner at 5:15 they were still out there!!! rachel came in for a quick nap half way through the day, but other than that they were outside getting into trouble.....ha,.i was not going to put rachel down for a nap because i didn't want to spoil their fun, but due to a little mishap i ended up putting her to bed......this is what happened......if you have ever spent any extended period of time with children then you would know, that the one and onlyyy escape from their escapades is to lock yourself in the bathroom....and that is exactly what i did......so i was locked in there..i think i reached the two minute mark, i can't quite remember, but then they were there.,....banging on the door, pretending to have various ailments, telling me things i already know, making things up that i dont already know, and all to just get me to open the door....but for some reason i held strong....haha..and at one point rachel i guess thought i could not hear her through the one inch door...so all the sudden her voice comes booming through the crack at the bottom.....haha...yes rachel, if i could not hear you before, i sure can now........but then suddenly things turn ugly.....now they are fighting......rachel wants to put a sticker on the door, lauren doesn't want her to......rachel thinks she should. lauren thinks she shouldn't......haha.....i always know when they are tired because their fights are 100% useless and pointless.......but i stilll did not open the door or even try to break up the fight....i actually was enjoying listening to it.....i know i am not going to be hearing these fights for much longer, so in a strange way i was trying to remember this one.....just when i think i can notttt take one more shreik, a deathly silence fills the house.......could it be? did they resolve this on their own?? but before i could even finish my thought, all the sudden i hear literally hissing and scrambling, slicing and scratching.....i quickly come to terms in my head that my peaceful bathroom moment has ended and i open the door......to find little rachel going nuts!!!!! like insane...on her big sister....like an crazed animal....in one hand is a big chunk of laurens hair, and the other hand is slicing at laurens face!!! hahah....i know its not funny to lauren and i did not laugh at the time...but i have never seen such fury come out of a three year old....not just the actions, but the noises of a lunatic.....finally rachel realizes i have opened the door, and her eyes could not have gotten any bigger......lauren is whimpering on the floor, and rachel( half of laurens size) is standing there staring at me.....hahaha...so anyways...in the end we got it all figured out...rachel was sent straight to bed without her comfort blankets and stuffed animal "me-meow".....this is a huge deal for her, when i walked past her room to check on her ten mins later, she was still complaining to herself under her breath.....haha...mumbling and bumbling about how the life of a three year old is just so hard and unfair.....haha....oh well.......i guess even taking two mins out of the day for myself has its consequences...but was it worth it?? yess..every second!
Poor Daisy..she was so tired and sad from all the strangers...
Becky wanted to wear her lady bug costume for the customers
Mom and Dad working hard..it was a long few days of hardd work
My nanny and I trying to console the dogs..haha
Steven and I on a scooter that was later sold..we had soo much fun on it..we would go to the top of the hill...and i would crouch down on the front and he would stand behind and then we would whip down
Steven and nanny...on dog duty..we took turns.
The girls
And last but certainly not least..dave and ruby....my dads best friend
