Avery on the other hand is suffering from complete orneriness! He must sense his opportunity to wreak havoc on his crippled family unit, cause he has started from the word "go" this morning...throwing fits, climbing the furniture, spraying his drink through 2 1/2 rooms of our house, playing in the toilet, screaming for attention, laughing and playing much louder and more rambunctious than usual - of course on the day that big brother needs some quiet. Here is a pic of him sitting and having his very early dinner right next to brother as he had just dozed off - luckily Huston is pretty much dead to the world around him at this point. Notice he won't even stay still for the picture...
But the piece de resistance was this little activity that he decided to try while I was busy elsewhere. Isaiah has busied himself with coloring ALL day - he has been a real trooper. Avery wanted to color too at one point and Isaiah volunteered to get him started. I said fine and in my mind Isaiah knew to station Avery at the vinyl tablecloth covered table where he too was working. About 10 minutes later I here Isaiah exclaim, "Oh Avery, you don't write on there!" I walk in to this loverly picture from Avery the artist...
Seems that Isaiah had put him at the tall counter - which as you can see is right next to the kitchen wall. You think putting a 6 year old in charge of the situation would have ended with good results...hmmm. So remember the endorsement of the Slick Stix from yesterday's entry, just so there is full disclosure, this is the wall after a bit of scrubbing but not using any chemicals as of yet...
I will tackle it a bit more tonight. Luckily my parents have swept in to save me from the 2 year old factor and have taken the brothers out of the home to hopefully keep me from losing my mind and to protect them from getting whatever it is that has a hold on Huston. By the way, I'm not that mad/sad about the wall - I have never been satisfied with the paint color in the kitchen anyway - so now I might have an excuse to try a new color!
4 comments:
Yay for the grandparents sweeping in....priceless!
no kidding...I am confident that if they had not come, Avery would be shackled to something big and heavy in his room :-)
Oh you should have framed that spot on the wall and nobody would have been the wiser! Sometimes I wished we had white boards all over the walls when my kids were growing up. Maybe you could repaint the wall like they did in Bridge To Tarabithia. My kids think that would be fun.
Have you seen the interview that KTIS radio did with Sara Groves on youtube? Check it out at "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKoQYwzOh4" She has some funny stories about her kids.
I probably should have framed it - would have rather done that than scrub the wall over and over - it is now to the barely noticeable phase...I'll try to get over to check out that interview too.
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