No more monkeys jumping on the couch!

I don't let the boys stand on the couch... But boys will be boys.



And that always goes to this...


Do these faces look like trouble, or what?


"What? Who me?!?"


Oh, but I do love them so.

Boys will be boys

What a day! I've heard the saying "boys will be boys," and today I really learned what it means. Boys will be mischievous!

Thomas decided he didn't want to take a nap. So after he spent about an hour not napping in his crib, on my fourth trip in to answer his screams of "Mommy! Mommy!" I decided to let him get out. I asked him to play quietly in his room while I finished sorting the laundry downstairs and got that started. I put the gate in his doorway and he wasn't completely quiet, but he was good enough. He, of course, however, pulled ALL of the books out of his bookcase (as he has done a lot lately) and dumped all his toys on the floor. I let him come downstairs and let him play while I sat down to figure out what to cook for dinner. After sitting for a few minutes he ran into me shouting "I ran in the clean clothes! I jumped in the clean clothes!" Yeah, it took him less than five minutes to turn my five neatly sorted piles of laundry into this:


And it actually got much worse after that. He started kicking laundry into all parts of the house and everytime I tried to pick things up, he came behind me and dumped them all out again. But that was nothing...

When Parker woke up from his nap I went upstairs to feed him for about 15 minutes. I left Thomas playing downstairs and he usually is very well behaved. I think actually I left him in his room and then he went downstairs. After I finished with Parker I called down to Thomas and asked what he was doing. He ran to the bottom of the stairs, looked up at me with a sweet smile and said, "I'm making a mess with the water in the kitchen." Uh-oh. I asked him what water and he said, "The water in the kitchen." I thought he had pulled my glass of water off the counter. I wish.

As soon as I got downstairs I realized that not only was his hair wet, but his shirt was soaked and his pants were so soaked they were making splashing noises as he walked. Not only that, they were so wet they were falling down. I got to the kitchen and quickly noticed there was water ALL OVER the floor. I am not kidding. It covered almost the entire kitchen. Since the camera was closeby from the earlier mess, I picked it up and that kid kept on going! You can kind of see how wet he is here:

As I was trying to take the video, he was still pushing the dispenser!!

It took me 5-6 bath towels and about 15 minutes to clean up all of the water (which stretched 10-15 feet away from the fridge at one point. I had to pull out the fridge to dry out underneath it. Water was everywhere. If it wasn't so funny, I probably would have been really angry, but as it was, it was all I could do not to laugh. I guess that's the reason the dispenser does have a lock on it. And I need to get in the habit of using that feature!