Silly Girls

So what is it about the announcement of bedtime that makes three little girls start squirming around and squealing? Every night it is always the same....at about 7:30 I say "okay girls, time to clean up, go potty, brush our teeth, get jammies on and go to bed..." Immediately all three start to whine and say they are too tired to clean up toys. Then I walk around the room behind them instructing on what needs to be picked up and asking them where they think it needs to go. Sarabeth is always very compliant. Emmie and Abby on the other hand are very good at disappearing right about now. Emily's most famous line always being the announcement that she has to go potty or she is just tooooo tired. She drags her little body around the room whining and on the verge of tears at the mention of having to pick up toys and when I inevitably end up giving her a time out for not helping and fooling around, she screams at the top of her lungs crying and saying...her famous last words..."I was just about to Mommy."

Finally after the toys are picked up, we head to the bathroom where the true CHAOS begins. Clothes begin to come off and either someone begins crying because they don't want to go potty before bed or they are just so tired that they cry about EVERYTHING for the next 20 minutes. Tonight was one of those really silly nights. You know those,....the ones where you wonder if they snuck into a stash of candy somewhere because they are just soooooo wired up....then I remember, ..... Ron brought home these treats tonight. For lack of the proper term, it looked like a chocolate twinkie with frosting swirled inside and dipped in chocolate! They each got one, which was about 3 inches long. They thought it was the best thing they'd ever eaten. After they finished they asked what they could have next. I said "apples", they cheered..."yeah"!

Back to the bathroom. I've got Abby on the potty and Sarabeth is running around chasing Emily in and out of the bathroom shouting some random made-up song about underpants and naked buns! Are you laughing as hard as I am? I immediately begin my speech about how we don't touch anyone else's buns and how we only let Mommy and Daddy touch our buns. This speech now given at least 128 times I'm certain. They laugh and burst into what they call the nakey dance. It really is something to see. Only the cutest of toddlers can pull this one off people. Prancing about shaking her hips side to side singing..."nakey, nakey nakey....nakey,nakey, nakey!" They just crack me up! The little exhibitionists take after Daddy in this arena, being that they would all prefer to wear nothing but underpants on a daily basis. That's a whole other day's blog.

We brush our teeth, get jammies on, tuck everyone in, give good night kisses, take inventory that all the "correct" dollies and animals" are in their beds. make sure everyone has had a drink of water, find Abby's binkies (that's another blog too), turn on the music boxes, remind Emily and Sarabeth that they better not get out of bed and go play in the bathroom like they did last night, kiss goodnight again and alas...quiet.....

Manwhile, I am fighting a head cold. Chicken soup for dinner tonight was so yummy. It is a cold Southern California night and it was nice to stay home and fill the house with yummy smells of homemade soup.

Daddy is off work tomorrow. I hope I am feeling well and we can do something fun!

I just finished proofing this to post and as I was reading it I hear this big "CRASH" I turn around and look at Ron and my mom (she has been here a few days) and they both look at ME like..."what was that?" MInd you, neither of them budge.... That's another blog too!

It is now a little after 9 I run down the hall to find Sarbeth at the door of her bedroom telling me in tears how she still needed one more drink of water, which of course made Emily need one too and then , of course, Abby starts shouting from her room..."Mama!" Yes, the excitement never ends and it is never quiet for long......