It happened....again.

I didn't think that I would be seeing Luke produce so many messes in so little time.  I tell you what, this boy has been biiii-zay!  Over the last week he has shown a fascination with soap.  He often times will be caught in the bathroom washing his hands.

Well, this desire to have clean hands has been taken one step further.  He not only likes to wash his hands now.  He like to wash the counters and the mirrors.  In my last post I was able to document this new found "hobby" of his through the use of air freshener.  He also enjoys brushing his teeth (a lot), coloring (on walls too now) and of course, playing with multiply ingredients that can be found in the fridge like, hmmm, I don't know ...EGGS - need I say more?  

Well, in one day Luke has managed to make bigger messes than the last two weeks combined.  Unfortunately for you, the reader, I only have one video to share for that wonderful, blessed day.

On this particular day I was helping out a friend by watching two of her kids.  This made my day a little more busy, but nothing too bad.  Luke seemed to develop the ability to accomplish a whole lot of mischief while I was otherwise occupied (be it changing diapers, making lunch for everyone, looking for binkies, etc.)  During the course of the day I found two minor soap messes which led to soap in the eyes.  I also found a BIG soap mess for which there are still remnants that need tending to.  He also is the author (or so I believe) of a major refrigerator mess.  Within this mess there was sprawled about the floor parmesan cheese (my arch nemesis), the entire box of baking powder, salad dressing, cottage cheese, brown rice and a sippy cup of milk.  I am quite fortunate that the cheese and baking powder where the only items that were found in a dusty scatter all over the floor.  It actually could have been a lot worse.....there could have been eggs involved.

Luke is loving his spiderman stuff.  I find it funny that he was a better spiderman before he had the costume.  I might have to have either me or Josh train him in the ways of super hero combat posing.  I have a funny feeling that this job, if it were to be done would fall on my shoulders.  So, we'll see what happens.  I guess it depends on whether I'm feeling outgoing or not.  We'll see...

Luke is actually shooting webs at me in this picture.  He's definitely going to have to work on this pose. I'm so not intimidated.

It's a good thing that Spidey is the "friendly" neighborhood Spiderman.

 Elizabeth is growing up so fast.  She jibber-jabbers a lot now.  It kind of sounds like "leego-leego-leego-leego".  I have yet to capture it on film, sorry.  I just love this little girl.  She's such a happy little child.
  She was being so cute the other day.  I kept placing her on her new rocking horse from Christmas.  At one moment she was giggly and happy.  The next, she was sad and crying.  She either has an extreme love/hate relationship with this horse, or else she was just really tired.  I happen to know for a fact that she was just really tired.

Love

Hate

I couldn't finish this post without mentioning a little bit about Isabella.  Last week at church we learned about the gift of agency and that there are consequences for the good and bad choices that we make.  While we were at Costco one morning she asked me, "Mama, when is grandpa coming to visit?"  I told her that he'd be here in a couple of weeks, but that he would be really busy with work and may not be able to stop for a visit. She then replied, "Grandpa is going to stay at the lake and not see us.  That is a bad choice." Ha!  I thought that was so funny.
On the same say I was taking her to school.  I can't remember what we were talking about (we're always talking about something make no mistake) when out of the blue she stated, "I love my grandma."  I thought that was very sweet.  I then asked her why she loved her grandma so much.  She said, "Because she reads me stories."  This was also very sweet.
There was also a funny thing she said today. We were driving home from school this time.  I had looked in her bag and found two fliers.  One was promoting a children's play/theatre group and the other was for flag football.  They both cost over $100 to join.  When she asked me when we were going to go and do those wonderfully fun things I said that I didn't know if we could.  Her response was something along the lines of, "Oh no, but we've already been invited mom!"  I'm hoping that this is coming across as funny because it sure was at the time.  I was laughing out loud.  I wish I could remember every amusing thing that my children do, but I just don't remember that well.  I guess that's what videos are for.

So, without further ado, I give you, your videos:

Luke practicing his Spiderman moves

Luke and Spiderman Theme Song

Bella chases Libby.

Mom chases Libby.

Luke's fridge mess...