On the naughty list- IN BIG RED LETTERS!

(Luke steals the show on that last photo but make sure you check out Jonah's face)

(clean up)


I'm pretty sure I don't need a whole lot of text for this posting. . . Think of it as a photo tour of recent events. Just prior to this was about a dozen walls covered in bright orange crayon. And a lot of things I don't really care to remember and didn't take pictures of -- Like their own creative chex mix. . . made with chex (of course) and lawn fungus killer (... of course) The Lady at poison control just laughed.


At least I can say that the big brothers weren't coloring on the walls!

Next up... Frying eggs on my window seat. . .



This would be a picture of eggs cracked into their ball popper toy.


Keeping with the cuisine theme. . . They were already cleaning up when I caught them this time.


Do you know that Parmesan cheese NEVER comes out of carpet- or a vacuum?

So I guess this was all just preparatory to the one day marathon. . .


You know when you wake up to this . . .
(there are 13 SOS pads in there) you should be on high alert for extra mischievous behavior. . .

Instead I decided to make a cake, and here's what happened. . . .

First came the poop in the bedrooms (yes plural). . . A lot of it - ground into the carpet thanks to the helpfulness of my baby-boys and the container of wet wipes they used to try to clean it up. I actually found him sitting on my new table butt naked (and of course not really wiped very well) Update: Both Jonah and the table have been thoroughly cleaned.


This would be Jonah after I duct taped his diaper on. After hunting for missing diapers all morning and following the poop fiasco it sounded like a good idea. And it worked great until I changed his diaper later and omitted the duct tape. . . (I'll get back to that later)


So here's the next installment of twin terror (same day)
At this point I wasn't even cooking anymore! This took them all of three minutes by themselves.


Here are the "Great BBQ Lakes" Luke and Jonah created on my carpet. Pictured here are bottles of BBQ sauce, ketchup, pomegranate juice and maple syrup. Not pictured is the sweet relish and the now half empty bottle of Worcestershire sauce. Also not seen in the picture is the Jackson Pollock on the wall and slide. Luckily most of the mess was limited to the board there on the floor (how considerate)

So I wiped up what I could, made a feeble attempt with a bottle of carpet cleaner and gave up- opting for my Mother in law's carpet cleaner later. Instead I headed downstairs with the boys to clean up the Lego mess in the play room. After pulling teeth we were just about done collecting a bazillion little legos when Jonah (maybe it was Luke?) ran over and dumped out the poorly guarded box. Square one. And then, not quite sure how this all happened- but Jonah ended up naked again and peed in a big rubber bin. He filled up the bin pretty good but I ran him to the toilet anyway for good measure. Nothing- so I put him down (stupid Mommy) and figured I was safe to run up and grab him a diaper. Came back down to find that he had miraculously grown a second, full bladder and had emptied it on the big pile of legos. It was about this time that I found out . . .I was pregnant!!!


Just kidding, (yeah I know not really funny- really not funny actually) I mean I found out that the Missionaries were coming for dinner at 5, not 6. At it was nearing 4:30 with nothing to eat and nothing to show for my day but a procession of digested and digestible disasters, and a house that smelled like a bad hot dog stand. I made the executive decision to order pizza and put the twins to bed as early as I possibly could.
p.s. after about an hour with one of those carpet cleaner vacuum looking things Mark got the carpet cleaned... mostly.