One Bussy Mama

Well each day there is a new mess and usually a bath that follows. I am a pretty laid back mama and probably most people think I am too laid back. I enjoy teaching my boys new things and having lots of fun with them, we like to cook things together, so I think they feel they have a right to the ingredients when I am not around..... this does not usually go over very well.

CHILD PROOFING.... OR SO THEY SAY!

Many of you are blessed with children who stay out of things :) I guess I was just blessed with boys who "just want to figure it out"
First we have door knobs... Abram who recently turned 3 learned to open doors when he was just over 1yo, basically if he could reach it he could open it. so naturally we put child proof locks on... it only took about 25 minutes to figure how to remove it! now what, well when he was 20 months we decided to take the door knobs off, because it is hard enough for an adult to open a door like that right? well about 3 weeks ago Abe figured it out, the only thing we can do is to lock the door from the other side which he has even opened a few times when he can find something small enough to get into the hole :) He is a very smart little boy

fridge locks, now they really need to improve on these.... well I will give them a little credit, It took my 18mo Abe an entire 3 days to figure it out and when he did he clapped his hands and said with a fat grin on his face "yea!! did it!!" it was a puzzle to him. since then I believe I have cleaned dozens of eggs off of the floor, including a few months ago when my 3 strappin boys dumped a dozen eggs out and drove their big trucks through them, I think I was scrubbing the egg spots off the carpet for a few hours before Spencer got home.

My boos truly need a huge mud puddle in which they could roll in in the morning just so they feel their day is full.

Sometimes it is really difficult and sometimes our house is clean for weeks at a time, but most of the time I vacuum 1-2x per day. I remember watching John and kate+8 a mother of twins and sixtupplets. she had to mop her floor 3-4x a day, I am glad I only have to do it twice :) luckly there is another mama in my ward who has a 4yo and 2yo twins, all boys, yesterday at enrichment people were saying we were supermoms, it is nice to have one person who understands no we are not supermoms just moms gone crazy, every mom is amazing and I don't know how anyone does it with a sane mind, but all of the fun, and joy in my boys eyes makes it all worth while.


Sorry for my babbling I get a little scatter brained sometimes.