Memoirs from a Modern Minivan Mom

The life of the Turners: Ryan, Julie, Ethan, Drew and Elise

Monday, August 18, 2008

Keeping busy....

So I have to say my boys have been best buds lately.  They'll go off and play for hours together if I let them.  It's so fun to listen in on them and hear their imagination work.  I guess as kids we all did it, but I don't know where they come up with the stuff.  My mind just doesn't work like that anymore (I wish it did...probably due to the lack of sleep between watching the Olympics and being glued to a new book I LOVE....an entirely different post). 

God sure does have a funny sense of humor though.  While I've been begging praying for a while for the boys to get along, I had no idea that it would happen when my angel daughter crossed over to the dark side:-)

Well maybe that's not fair.  She's not exactly on the dark side, but she is definitely walking crawling with one foot on the left and one foot on the right side of the line!  She is one curious kitten.  I thought Ethan was curious...Elise is a whole different creature with curious and some sass mixed in.  I give you a day in the life of Elise:

Hmmmm, my brothers are playing Elefun....and I don't know how to play yet, so I'll take my net and put it over my head.  Why does my mommy freak out when I do this?  I think I like the attention I get when I do it, so I'll do it over and over and over.....

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I want to get in my walker even though all I do is bump into walls and scream for help.  I'll try to get in by myself.  Uh oh, I think my foot is in the wrong way....AHHHHH  MAMA....MAMA....

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I just love taking the DVD's out from under the TV.  What a big mess it makes....it's so pretty with all the different colored covers laying all over the floor.  IMG_2992 copy Aren't I just so cute?  Never mind that I'm standing in the drawer to the ottoman.....

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And no......I'm not sitting in front of the TV, eating bonbons and watching a soap opera while my curious kitten prowls around the house:-)  The ottomon incident usually occurs while I'm cleaning up the breakfast or lunch table....the DVD incident occured during a "potty break"....and so on.  You can't leave this girl alone for a second:-)

Oh well, at least my boys are being super easy to manage (for the moment.....).