Messes.

While we had our visitors Henry decided to start up a little bit of a bad habit. He started off by spilling the oil. He likes to get into our closet that holds a lot of our food storage. I keep the oil on the ground because of the mess it makes when it drips down the side after using it. Henry went into the closet while I was working on the computer. He came in and his hands were very oily. My heart dropped as I realized what had happened. I ran into the kitchen to find a whole lot of oil on the ground. I didn't think to take a picture of this mess. Next it was the sugar. I found him snooping in the closet again when I had a friend over and I noticed his little mess. Thanks Emily for helping me see the lighter side of this one. Here is the little dude as he continues to make a mess of the sugar.

Henry decided to explore other areas of the kitchen. Under the sink seems to be a fun place too. Which I don't like so I try to put a string around the cupboard handles so that he can't open them. Unfortunately he found the dish soap one afternoon. Willie was around to help me see the lighter side and he also helped to "clean" up the slippery little boy. I don't know that he really needed a bath after this incident. Henry has been the most mischievous boy so far.

Lincoln followed suit about a month later. It was my fault in all actuality. The pink ink wasn't too great to get into. Parker has been doing sportots and at the end he gets to have a stamp on his hands. He loves it. I thought it would be great to play with some stamps that I had. I pulled them out and the boys loved it and were enjoying stamping the paper. I left to go check on a few things. When I returned Lincoln had stamped his whole arm. It was getting on the picnic table too. I sent him to go wash his hands. I have never doubted Lincoln's ability to wash his hands. I knew that he would play in the water as well. I was not in store for what he had pulled out this time though.

Lincoln decided to put toilet paper in the sink. He had fun splashing around in the full sink, there isn't a safety feature on this sink, it just fills up. Parker came running into me a little while later and said, 'mom, Lincoln made a mess.' I thought well of course he always gets wet when he washes his hands. WELL. I walked into the bathroom to find the entire floor in about 1/4" of water. The rug was soaking wet. The drawers and cupboards had water in them.

This wasn't all. The pink ink that doesn't come out of anything was all over the walls and fixtures in the bathroom. I hurriedly cleaned all the pink that I could before it stained everything. I had to put Lincoln in the tub before he touched too many things. He kind of forgot to wash the ink off his arms as he played in the water.

Linc was a little disappointed but he knew that he was in trouble. I gave him a bath and cleaned it all up.

All in all I have been staying on my toes with the fun things these boys do. I am grateful for my boys, they are so sweet and I love them.