Saturday, September 25, 2010

Joey or Matt? Who is who?

 People always comment on how much Joey and Matt look alike.  I usually don't see it until I look back at pictures.  I was adding Matt's picture to a collage of the other kids, and I stepped back to look at it.  I couldn't believe how much they look alike.  But I think he's a good mix between Andrew and Joey.  His baby pictures look a lot like Andrew, too.  Can you tell who is who?









Laser Tag Injury and A Naughty Little Boy

I really promise I'm not a bad blogger.  I'm going to be better and do this more often.  I think Opera rehearsals are sucking the life out of me...

Andrew and Joey went to their friend's birthday party last week.  Andrew came home and told me that his shoulder hurt.  Now, I don't ignore my kids' serious injuries, but I do usually wait until they complain more than once about something.  Otherwise I'd be treating every boo boo all day long.  When Andrew came back again, and told me it hurt, I decided to take a look.  I guess it really did hurt!  That is quite a bruise.  He was proud of his war wound.  That must have been some game!


I'm pretty sure you can all guess who the naughty one is going to turn out to be.  Here is the mastermind behind all my troubles.  When Grace goes to preschool, it's just the two of us.  Weird.  I haven't had just one kid at home for almost 6 years, even if it is just for 3 mornings a week.  So when I take a shower, he lines up all of his goodies (usually a bowl full of dry cereal, apple juice, a banana, his tiger, and his "dee dee" -- blanket) and he sits down to watch Clifford.  I usually find minimal damage afterwards.


 But today there I was, minding my own business, when Ben called to me: "Um, honey, you better come see this!"  I knew I was in for trouble. 

I entered my bathroom, where Matthew had taken out all of my make-up -- you know, the expensive Bare Minerals stuff -- and dumped some of it into the sink.  But that wasn't the worst part.  He had taken the plastic container that I use to store it, filled it up with water, and then submerged the rest of it carefully into the container.  And, of course, he had taken all the lids off first, so it was completely ruined.  Fabulous.  That's just what I needed.

This is what was still floating after I tried to rescue some of them.  We'll see what happens when they dry out, but I'm thinking they'll be a total loss.

I'm adding this to his tab.  He's got quite a bill running.  I hope he chooses a profession that pays well, because he owes me a lot of money.