dynamic duo?

These two are a force of nature in our home right now. As Brent said, “I think babies are so cute so that we'll take care of them,” and Boy! Is it a good thing they are so cute!!! I don't always have the level head necessary to take a cute picture, but here's enough to give you an idea.

Just as a sampling from what I can remember, these two thrive off of my trying to do something in a room they're not in, so that they can:

decorate the kitchen by dumping out the rest of a box of cornstarch all over the floor, mixing in raisins and cereal to make it taste good while they're dancing in it

have Anne try to wash Lucy's hair w/ half a bottle of Cetaphil cleanser, which was preferable to-

Anne putting on Lucy's makeup by squirting HALF a tube of liquid foundation all over her head and hair (only 13 rinses/washes to get back to blonde)

dumpout all my make up, earrings, and their own drawer of hairthings

leave the water on in the kitchen—with the faucet pulled OUT of the sink---TWICE--once while I was home, and once while the other 4 children were “watching” them—well, Anne alone this time, and we came home to FLOODED kitchen---our hardwood now has a “distressed” kind of texture to it, and the light in the basement was dripping for 3 days

So, when Lucy climbs up like this to dump out the salt again, or Anne wants to “cook” by pouring every ingredient she can find (usually things like apple juice, paprika, cereal and vitamins?) into a pot and stirring it until it becomes “spicy water,” or when Lucy is playing in the toilet, or they are both found pouring a whole bag of rice puffs all over the floor, ten minutes after I cleaned up the fridge they had opened up to reassign the strawberries to the cheese drawer (AFTER biting half of them) and pulling/breaking out all of the Easter Eggs because they're so pretty, the messes become relative, and I'm just glad the rice puffs are only $.98, glad that no house damage is done, glad when I don't have to run a bath to clean it up, and glad everyone already knows I'm late to everything anyway, so one more delay will hardly stop the world from spinning!

I remember going through this stage with almost every child—some more dramatic than other (BRENT!), but the double-teaming I don't remember having as much experience w/, so they are keeping me on my toes! They better stay friends, because they may not have any others with a track record like this!!