My Spring Break

Just in case anyone was considering... Trying to recover from surgery while taking care of 4 kids is not fun! I do not recommend it, even for those nasty people who pretend that nothing is hard. If only I could have thought it remotely funny at the time I would have taken a picture of each disaster, but I did NOT think it was funny.
Just off the top of my head, that is pounding by the way, the kids could not pass up the chance to raid the pantry, cupboards, fridge and freezer. So naturally why would I be surprised when I walked in my bedroom and find a whole bag of chocolate chips spread all over the floor and a trail to the bathtub. The bathtub? Then of course the entire box of goldfish all of the living room floor, which trying to force them to clean, Kaden decided to suck each one up one at a time with the vacuum hose that plugged the vacuum. Why didn't you just eat them! And then is my mind playing tricks or do I hear the hose on outside!!! Mud and ruined clothes and baths tree times a day. And why is Hazel in the swing!! And you cannot understand unless this has happened to you, walking toward the kitchen noticing a trail of stickiness finding Hazel on the table, she had poured out an entire jug of apple juice all over the kitchen. You have to mop 2-3 times for the sticky to actually be gone. And then for the rest of the day you think everything is sticky so you wash it too. Baths once again. It doesn't help that two days before one of the possessed children that we will not name dropped a jug of apple juice and it broke, so I knew what I was in for. Toys strewn all over the house. Laundry taking over my bedroom and the hall. And why is there BLONDE HAIR ON THE FLOOR!!! After inspection Avary was the victim of one of the possessed. Then, I must be dreaming the pain must be driving me out of my mind there cannot be chocolate chips all over the living room floor. No no that chocolate scent is not cookies. Q tips all over the bathroom. Paint on the table, uuuhh yes your picture is beautiful. It's me,oh, am I smiling , crying or yelling? Not to mention the sick teething baby and all the hacking coughs. It was quite an eventful spring break. Do you think they were bored? I did take them out, not that they deserved it. I took them to Grandmas, the park and to Jeepers.
You think you are going to crack and then you hear one of those little voices singing from the other room, Avary, "I love to see the temple I'm going there some day I hope I see a ghooost". HaHa! I did, just for a minute, look at their little dirty faces and messy hair and the little twinkle in their eyes and think, what did I do to deserve you? . . . You can take that how ever you like. Smile.

Binks

I think we might have a problem on our hands. Or better yet our faces. Hazel is definitely the baby, she still has a binky and is almost 18 months old and even worse still drinks her milk from a bottle. Yes! I know! But right now it is just not worth listening to her cry, but it has to come to an end before her 18 month Dr. appointment because her Dr. will let me have it if she finds out. She is soo against bottles after 12 months, which is funny because so am I or I was until I had my fourth child and then ya know what's the big deal. But things have slipped in other areas too like having a barret in her hair at all times of course, but without a bow! And to tell the truth there have been many days when I haven't even brushed their hair, but still put a barrett in. But in my own defense I have had my plate very full and it came down to my hair or theirs and I have to say it has been 50/50 most of the time.
And can someone tell me why with my first child at this age she was talking and seemed so old and Hazel just says gaga and goo goo. I am not kidding! She really says that and corndog, which are gross by the way. Oh and you can't forget gilk, her other obsession, but refuses to say no or yes. She will only shake her head. I'm sure she can talk I have caught her before but it seems she is trying to get away with being a baby as long as possible. She has finally started to grow at least. One day she started eating and has not stopped, she wants to eat all day long. Her cheeks are are even filling out and she has gotten taller. Who would have thought!