In no more than 8 days, we’ll welcome another mess maker to the family. Maybe the new little guy will be less high maintenance than the others, but I have my doubts.
Within the last few weeks or so, Jude got into the lotion in our main bathroom and decided to decorate the 6×5 or so mirror with lotion and to also fill his hands with lotion and squirt it out all over the room by clapping. It was such a disaster, I had to get out the video camera and record it.
Then a little more recently, Levi broke into the pantry and spilled out half a box of Cheerios on the floor. He was having such a fun time dragging his entire body through them, eating handfulls of them, throwing other handfulls away, and throwing them at Jude while laughing. After getting some video of the action, I took advantage of them being distracted with the Cheerios and ran into the play room to clean up the cars that they had spread all over the floor. When I returned a few minutes later, Levi had gotten into the desk drawer and had drawn with ink pen and pencil all over the tile floor. It’s really just one mess after another around here. I wonder if the same would be true of girls — but then I remember my mom used to call me “Messy Jessie.”