When your toddler learns to unscrew lids...

...you'd better be prepared. This is by far the messiest milestone I've dealt with. Last week, Summer unscrewed a ton of fingernail polish and painted the bathroom with it.



This morning, they girls were being extra quiet. I found them sitting behind the couch...


...eating the peanut butter. Which also means that Summer knows how to remove the doorknob safety covers that are on the pantry door.


Both of these thing happened in a matter of minutes, while I was making the bed and unloading the dishwasher. I think I might start tying a rope around their waists and attaching the other end to me.

Monday

We didn't give Summer and Camryn baths last night, so I gave them one this morning. About an hour later, we had Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches for lunch. Camryn decided her hair was just too clean and rubbed her sticky hands all over her head.

I didn't want to re-bathe her so I took off her dirty shirt and stuck her in the sink to clean her off.



Summer is doing great at learning the alphabet. She can say her ABC's for the most part and is starting to recognize the written letters. She and Camryn (and George) were playing with the alphabet puzzle they got for Christmas, and Summer told me what the letters were as she found where they went in the puzzle.




More later, I need to see if I can get Summer to take a nap while Camryn naps so I can get this house clean!

A Few Pictures

I taught her to say, "Cheese!" (while eating cheese)

She took the mail from me with her teeth.

Took her pigtails out in the car.

This happens way too often!

Adventures in Crafts with Toddlers

I thought I would be a good mommy and do a craft with the kids this morning. With a 1 and 2 year old, you're somewhat limited to what you can do to keep their attention, but I found a recipe for paint somewhere on the web and decided to give it a try. I followed the directions, with Summer's help, and stirred the mixture together on the stove. It resembled biscuits and gravy at that point. I added some water and got it to a consistency that was at least thinner, and poured it into little containers and added the food coloring.I rolled paper out over the table, got the girls in their seats, and put the paint on the table.

Camryn was really hesitant at first, but then after realizing she could eat it, sat there licking it off of her fingers. Summer was a bit more adventurous and painted a "peacock", a "baby", and a "frog".



They sat there for about 30 minutes, creating masterpieces. The "paint" was kind of gross and clumpy, but they enjoyed it. When they were done, I threw them in the tub for a quick bath and they are now eating lunch quietly.

**Please excuse my bizarrely yellow tinted pictures. I have yet to figure out how to set my camera to take good ones.**

Here's a video of them in the tub a little while ago. I probably won't leave it up since I don't want weirdos seeing my kids in the bathtub, but I thought it was cute, especially Camryn blowing a kiss at the end.


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