T is for Trouble

Put these two little brains together and there's no telling what they'll come up with these days. I sometimes wonder if they're more dangerous now than they were as toddlers because now they have imaginations and means to get what they want, like the stamps I keep hidden on the very top of my desk or buckets of dirt from the back of the house. When they're playing somewhere quietly, it always means trouble!

A game of carwash outside turned into naked truck rides.

They were using body paints as the soap and I thought it would be funny to label them A and B. Later I realized I should have written Thing 1 and Thing 2!

Today Ben was multi-tasking...cooking grilled cheese sandwiches and playing with his new car all at the same time. Thanks, Grandma, for the new cars and books we just got in the mail! They were all well received :)

Alex will find ANYTHING to do other than eat at the table. I can take away all the toys and distractions, but he'll still find something more interesting to do than actually eat his food, like stack pretzels on his straw. Only today it was Ben saying "I worked hard on that meal, you'd better eat it!" instead of me. Of course, I still did most of the work but we'll let him have the credit.

Ben is still going to school for half days and I'm really glad they're easing the kids into school because he's already coming home really tired and hungry. For the first time EVER Ben ate all his dinner and asked for more. I was thrilled to pile more food on his plate! At 4 1/2 he still weighs just 32lbs, exactly the same as Alex.

Cheese!!

In more crazy weather here, we've been under high barometric pressure pushed here by the remnants of Cyclone Yasi (the one that just devastated northern Queensland) with hot, extremely windy days. Apparently one guy using a metal grinding machine started this fire on Saturday and it's still burning houses right now. There were four major bushfires burning around Perth yesterday but fortunately they're all considered under control at the moment unless the winds pick back up. Crazy!