Monday, July 21, 2008

Who did this??


Last Friday I had given my kids specific instructions on what the rules were while I cut the grass:
#1: Stay in the yard
#2: You can only go in the house if you have to use the bathroom
#3: No kids in the house
#4: You can have 1 popsicle from the outside fridge, if you want





(This picture is a different story--my youngest decided to help daddy with the yard work and dumped an entire load of fertilizer in the yard...not funny. Actually a little scary. He's fine and yes, he was washed in the bathtub thorougly. Needless to say, the grass is fried.)
Back to the story. I finished up the yard fairly quick and ran inside to grab some water. I had a few surprises when I came into the kitchen. I calmly surveyed the damage done: Lots of oreos eaten with many crumbs left behind, mysterious blue food coloring trickeled all over the upper landing of my steps, and a whole 2-liter of root beer almost all gone! There were also other random things sitting on the countertops...blueberries, raisins, a frozen bagel.
I calmly walked out to the backyard and asked my children to come inside. They were completely oblivious and actually mad that I had interrupted their very important baseball game and swinging time. I asked nicely, but firmly, "Who did this?" All three of the perpetrators were clueless. Then they all responded in harmony, "He did!" Conner and Sam were both pointing their finger at Ben, while Ben was pointing at Sam. I ended up solving the mystery with only a few threats(not literally). But these are just a few of the things that happen when I am not on top of the boys 24/7. Luckily in about 10 or 15 years I'll laugh about it. At least the grass is nicely cut and edged, though. :-)

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