for having not posted since Wednesday. It’s been an up and down week but we’ve survived. I even made supper on Thursday and after eating, promptly had to lie down.

We’ve had a long, fun, busy day at a children’s museum with some friends.

Just want to say, get ready for some pictures. Zoe’s working on a poem that she shared with Mark and I tonight. I just have to brag! I asked if I could borrow it to show to the grandparents (and all of my faithful readers) but she said she thought it wasn’t finished yet. She’s so me! I’ve got notebooks stashed away somewhere full of stories and poems I wrote. I’ll post it as soon as she’s finished with it.

Must sleep for now!

This is how my day has started off:

“I need to go potty.” Sits there and then continues to tee-tee on his chair as I yell, Go!

“Are the dishes in the dishwasher clean?”–Ace

“Yes”

“They’re clean?”

“Yes, they’re still clean.”

“So, are the dishes clean?”

“Yes.”

Thirty seconds later, Zoe is excused from the table and she proceeds to go to the dishwasher, open it up and starts to put her bowl in.

“Zoe, the dishes are still clean!”

Liam’s emptying the dishwasher and I tell him to get a chair so he can stand up and put away the forks, knives, etc.

“A chair?”

“Yes, a chair. Please go get a chair.”

“Is this a chair?” Pointing to what he knows is a stool.

“No, that’s a step stool. Please, go get a chair.”

Walks over to the kitchen table and points.

“Want me to get a chair?”

“That’s what I said, sweetheart. Please get a chair and bring it over here.” Add the extra direction just to make sure he could understand…yeah, right.

“A chair?”

“Uh-huh.”

Passes three chairs closest to him and walks to the next to farthest away from the kitchen area.

“Uhhh, can’t get it.” As he struggles to pull the chair.

I’ve lost total patience with lack of thinking today and inform him, ever so politely to get another chair…preferably one closest to the kitchen area.

Finally, we’re done with chores today. I hope they take their thinking pills before school time!

Lots of fun had by all and the boys took a really good nap!

This morning when the boys were getting dressed, Ace’s pj bottoms went missing. Mark kept asking Ace where they were but he couldn’t find them, neither could we. Now, his pj bottoms are really big short type undies but it works for now. Anyway, when we got home from church and he was changing clothes, guess what we found!?! His pj bottoms had made it to church on under his pants and over his undies. Three layers of clothes, phew! That’s hot! His remark:

“Paster L didn’t know I did that.” He was grinning the whole time.

Ace and Liam were hanging out with me in their bedroom while Mark did some repairs to Zoe’s closet door (I don’t know what happened). This was all right before bedtime. Ace is holding a pet rock he made and said, “I want my rock.”

Without missing a beat, Liam chimed in, “and roll.”

So, waiting around got tiring and Liam and Ace decided that jumping off the bottom bunk would be fun. Since, I don’t really have the energy to go to the ER tonight, I told them not to jump on the bed.

Liam looked at me in all seriousness and said, “I not jumping, I fying (flying).”

While laughing, I told him that flying off the bed was not allowed either and so he politely obeyed and decided to fly off the ground. Unfortunately, he didn’t get far. But he had fun doing it and I promised pillow diving tomorrow after school!