These kids of ours are fantastic but the one thing they (and most other kids) don't seem to grasp is the overhead in cleaning up the messes they create and leave behind. To them it's all part of playing but the cleaning part is certainly NOT a part of that. I'm sure that any of you reading this that have kids can relate and this is not new news but occasionally the kids take the mess-making to an extent that makes it worth mentioning. Thanks to the magic of digital photography we've got the photo evidence to share two recent mess-making triumphs for them and big cleanups for us.
In the first scenario, Carrie stepped away for roughly 90 seconds and when she returned the girls had decided that the best way to get to the bottom of a box of Lucky Charms was to lay them all out, individually, on the floor and then pick out the best part -- the marshmallows. Here's the scene she returned to:
The scene of the crime:
Caught in the act:
Busted with marshmallow on their faces:
The second scenario had Sophie calmly eating a bowl of yogurt until she got full. Once full. Sophie loses interest in eating whatever's in front of her and focuses on launching it. In this case, she passed on launching and decided to paint.....herself.....with the yogurt.
27/07: The Mess
These kids of ours are fantastic but the one thing they (and most other kids) don't seem to grasp is the overhead in cleaning up the messes they create and leave behind. To them it's all part of playing but the cleaning part is certainly NOT a part of that. I'm sure that any of you reading this that have kids can relate and this is not new news but occasionally the kids take the mess-making to an extent that makes it worth mentioning. Thanks to the magic of digital photography we've got the photo evidence to share two recent mess-making triumphs for them and big cleanups for us.In the first scenario, Carrie stepped away for roughly 90 seconds and when she returned the girls had decided that the best way to get to the bottom of a box of Lucky Charms was to lay them all out, individually, on the floor and then pick out the best part -- the marshmallows. Here's the scene she returned to:
The scene of the crime:
Caught in the act:
Busted with marshmallow on their faces:
The second scenario had Sophie calmly eating a bowl of yogurt until she got full. Once full. Sophie loses interest in eating whatever's in front of her and focuses on launching it. In this case, she passed on launching and decided to paint.....herself.....with the yogurt.
Behold, the artwork:
[Jeff]