My Rascal

What two year olds get into....


for Eliza it is fingernail polish, among other things.


I remember Anna Clare scared me to death as a two year old when she brought me a tube of toothpaste that she had been ingesting. For Boone it was escaping from the closed and sometimes even locked doors in the house, I found him in the woods, on the neighbors porch and one day in a mud puddle across the street (i am ashamed to admit). It is always something, but my little eliza seems to have a little more rascal in her. I say rascal because she gets into so many things just to get into them. She will dump puzzles, crayons, silverware, magazines, cat food everywhere and all the time. She is really keeping me on my toes. I feel like with boone and anna clare it would be something here and then something there but Eliza it is just always something! The fingernail polish made me want to scream I was so mad. She had unscrewed the lid, which in my experience is never easy with fingernail polish, and then she painted her own nails and toes! She was really proud and I have to give her a little credit because the mess could of been much worse! She got the polish on her purple coverup and a little on her blanket but other than that we came out fairly clean. In the picture below I am trying to tell her that painting your own nails was a "no-no", you can see how she responded to that!









"UH-OH"
(you can click on pic to see her paint job up close)

Organic Water

What is Organic??

All my children tend to keep me laughing with the little things they say and their logic of adult topics they hear in the car from the backseat or in the grocery cart as we are pushing them around. I just absolutely love it!!! Whenever one of the kids do something or say something so cute to me I just have to tell someone.

So hear I am with another Boone statement..
today at the pool he has set up a "grocery bar". I did not have my camera to take a pic of this creation, but he had little plastic fish and cups and a watering can lined up on the edge of the pool. He was offering me things here and there, so much so that I finally started to decline his offers of "pink fish" or "diet coke". So, when he held up the watering can and asked me if I would like some water and I said No, he replys "but Mom, it's Organic". The really funny part of this is that we are not really all that "organic" of a family, but would really like to be! I am glad he is picking that up and hope all my kids will recognize the many benefits of buying organic.

pure organic fun to me is really listening to my kids and being witness to their little lives as they are growing up!