Rebels without a cause.

Ever since Elliot has arrived the kids have taken to opportunistic mischief. There's no other way to describe it. It's not as if I'm not here all day. I hardly sleep, honestly, there's little time to eat. I'm not watching tv. Maybe it's when I take a shower. However it happens, they seem to always find ways to cause chaos & disorder whenever they think they have 2 seconds of unsupervised time.

Something has disappeared. It's a box of crackers Mimi snatched off the counter. She's now in her room, door closed, sitting on the floor eating them as if she's never fed.

Someone made us some sweets. The kids open the fridge to eat all but one of the chocolate covered treats. Before 8am.

Oliver isn't hungry, in fact he says he has a stomach ache. About 5 seconds later he is starving & can't be bothered to wait for me. I find him toasting a bagel (which he does from time to time) & about to stick a knife in the toaster to fish it out.

It seems all roads of boredom usually lead to the kitchen.

Yesterday, even tho it rained most of the day, I let them go to the back patio to chalk on the small part of concrete not saturated w water. After that 10 minutes of entertainment became boring they came inside. They wiped their feet on the towel I had laid out. Then they disappeared. I assumed to play in their room. I suppose they realized I would be sitting for awhile as I was nursing Elliot. They lost control of reality, punishment & consequences.

Ryan came home w groceries & Mimi ran out to confess, there was a big, BIG mess.

This is what he found.

They has decided to 'wash' their feet in the - sink?

Too bad you can't tell from the picture, but there was about an inch of water on the floor & it was still running down the cabinet as they both sat in bubbles & water.

Since I was still nursing, Ryan brought my camera in to show me what was happening.

So what? I said, What are you going to do w them?

I don't know, he said, Right now I'm taking pictures.