It has been one long week around here!  These kids are constantly testing the limits and making me want to scream,  and then bringing me back to Earth with a funny comment, or sweet cuddles. Earlier today, I think the kids had a secret sibling meeting because they all bombarded me at once yelling “hugs” and giving me the best squeezes. No complaints here!

This morning,  I broke a banana in half for the boys and it was apparently the worst thing I could have ever done.  I had ruined their lives.  The screams were unreal.  They wanted their bananas whole! Guess what?  They ate the broken bananas anyway.  At naptime, I knew they so badly needed to rest and not play with poop.  While I’m trying to find a more permanent solution for their newest hobby, I found that duck tape around the outside of their clothing worked pretty well.  They slept comfortably and I didn’t have to scrub the entire room (and them) when they got up.  One point for Mommy!

Taylor has been so hilarious lately.  She’s always a funny girl but this weekend, she has upped her game and made me laugh so much. Last night she said “Hey guys, come on!  If we hurry up and finish cleaning the playroom, maybe she will give us some dinner!”  Tonight, I asked her to pick up a carrot off the floor and throw it away and this was the conversation that ensued:

M:  please pick up that carrot and throw it in the garbage.

T: Sorry, Mommy, but princesses don’t clean.

M:  In this house they do, because Mom says so.

T:  Oh, well you’re the queen so I guess the princess has to pick up the carrot after all.

She’s lucky she is so cute.

After I put the boys to bed tonight, I was helping Taylor clean her room (the boys visited in there earlier and left a path of destruction) and I heard some weird animal noises coming from the boys’ room.  I took a quick look in the monitor and saw what looked like Jackson standing on his head, in bed.  Surely, I must have been delusional.  I went to check, and this is how I found him. He was comfy, I guess!  His monkey brother, in the next bed, had started undressing himself and was clever enough to throw a blanket over his tiny body when he heard me coming in so I wouldn’t catch him.  It was a good try; I have to give him that much credit!

I kind of love that my kids are so darn weird.