Saturday Morning

Yeah, okay. So it's Monday morning...and I'm blogging about Saturday morning...I'm a little late.
My friend Katy wrote a blog about Saturday morning and when I read hers, I knew I needed to write about mine. I had already thought about writing about mine, but the comparisons I thought were just too funny. Her blog talks about a relaxing sort of Saturday morning...and mine...well, it's not really like that.
So, on Saturday mornings Josh gets up early and goes to a Men's Bible study. So he's usually out of the house until 9:15am or so, so until that time, I'm on my own. Which is fine, because I'm almost always on my own anyway. This particular Saturday morning was nice. I slept in (Bryce and Jayden were up, but they know better than to come wake me up =) so they found something quiet to do downstairs) So about 8am or so I got up, came downstairs, made my coffee and was sitting quietly at the computer reading blogs and whatever. I heard the girls up and playing in their room, but I have a rule about that. I do not ever get them out of their room unless they are crying...I let them play. And they really do like to play in their room. Well, I broke my rule this particular morning, which I guess was good. In an attempt to not make Josh think I was a bad parent by keeping the girls locked up in their room, I decided to let them out a few minutes before he got home even though they were still playing nicely. This is what I saw:

Oh dear. In case you can't tell, that is in fact Desitin all over Adelynn's face. So, of course I had to focus on cleaning up Adelynn. I got out the wipes and cleaned her face and hands. I was literally in their room cleaning her off for approximately 3 minutes...maybe 5. When I came out, what did I find? Well, I had neglected to put up the baby gates before opening their door. So what I found was Kynden climbing a stool and pulling things down off of the pantry shelf and Ellyanna, who had found a bowl of cat food and dumped it in to the large box of laundry soap and then apparently tried to get the cat food out of the laundry soap so there was laundry soap and cat food in the box and on the floor. To this day there is still cat food in the laundry soap because it is a pain trying to pick cat food out of laundry soap.

So I hauled their cute little behinds out of the laundry room/pantry and put up the gates. What I didn't mention about their room was that in addition to smearing desitin all over herself, Adelynn had also smeared desitin all over their wall and door and someone had opened a new container of wipes and pulled all the wipes out and thrown them all over their room. I'm telling you, they are insane with their destructive super powers. If only they could use their powers for good and not evil.

So after putting up the gates, I went back into their room because I had to get the wipes cleaned up while they were still wet..otherwise they dry out and become useless. So I was in there another 5 minutes or so. When I emerged from their room, I came out to the living room and found; a spilled cup of milk, a spilled bowl of cereal, an overturned plate from the kitchen counter with food all over the floor, an open junk drawer with the contents all over the floor and a box of cereal about to be dumped. So much for my quiet, relaxing morning!

A few moments later Adelynn walked over to me and she was this disgusting shade of grey...even her lips and she had her hand over her mouth and was making whiny noises. I was sure she was going to throw up. She didn't actually, but I assume that she had eaten some of the desitin. I gave her some milk and some cereal and she seemed fine. But unfortunately this state of chaos is how Josh walked in and saw us. So much for looking like a good parent!