just a Thursday....

There was nothing remarkable about this day...it was just a Thursday.  Brainy Chick and Busy Chick have been enrolled in swim school all week in the morning, and our plan was to go visit a local farm to run some steam out of the kids with a friend.  It was raining on the way home, so we decided to meet our friend at our house to play instead.  Here's what happened next....

Brainy Chick came running upstairs and into the kitchen where my friend and I had 3 of the 6 kids at the house eating lunch....Brainy Chick said "Mama Hen, Busy Chick has taken his pants AND underwear off in the toy room and peed on a game"....um...whatdidyoujustsaytome?  It's important to note here that Brainy Chick is a wonderful narc...one of the best...this is a trait I find very difficult because while I want to teach Brainy not to always be telling on Busy, there are some things that a Mama Hen NEEDS to know...like when one of her overly impulsive chicks has dropped his draws in our playroom and decided to pee pee on a game....go ahead and laugh, this.is.my.life....and the child was just getting started with his day!

The next thing Busy Chick decided to do was unravel the carpet on the stairs leading down to the toy room.  After that, he unraveled about 3 feet worth of duct tape...which I may or may not have tried to tie him up with...you will never know!  After that, Chickette was playing with a few of her baby dolls and put one of them in the shower...the shower that was NOT running...and I asked her "are you giving your baby a bath" and she shook her head "yes" because she doesn't say "yes" yet....and her brothers then said " we want to see"....so like any prepared and expecting mother, I said "DO NOT TURN THE WATER ON"...I'm sure you can see where this is going...Busy Chick sure did turn the water on her baby doll and soak her all up.....

Luckily, The Rooster got home at a reasonable hour yesterday and sensed my frustration with the middle chick, and took them all downstairs to play for a while.  

Whew...stay tuned....more of my days are like this than not!

Mama Hen