I feel like I need to say SOMETHING because it's been so long. Life hasn't really been fun around here for a variety of reasons. We've been sick, the kids have been going crazy and Bob and I have been having lots of 'discussions'. So, yeah, I'm pretty much exhausted and stressed. So I'll just tell you some stories about the kids. Mostly Lorelei.

One morning while I was cleaning up the basement, she came upstairs and dumped an entire new Costco sized bag of Cheerios all over the kitchen floor. Then, as Maggie informed me, she skated on them. I am still finding Cheerios in a variety of places and this was two weeks ago.

The next morning while I was doing laundry, she came upstairs and poured an entire gallon of water into an 8 oz glass. Then she knocked the glass over and it broke. I found out something was up when she came downstairs soaking wet. I asked her how she got wet and Maggie said "I know, Mommy, because it's raining down here!". Yes, that's right, all that water had gone through the floor boards and was dripping into the basement.

This morning while I was... ok, ok, I had passed out on the sofa because I was up with Liam, Lorelei and Molly numerous times last night as well as staying up way too late... Lorelei got up on the counter and poured a whole bottle of antacids into a frying pan and then poured a whole container of cinnamon sugar over it. I have no idea if she ate any. Poison control said she could eat 20 or 30 without it having a serious affect, so I guess she'll just be acid reflux free for a while. Anyway, while I was cleaning up that mess, Liam got into the cabinet on the opposite side of the kitchen and spilled a whole container of tiny round sprinkles all over the floor. All the kids dove to consume them and now, hours several vacuumings later, they still have little colored dots all over their feet and stains on their faces.

Some other highlights over the past few weeks: Lorelei got the kitchen scissors out of the drawer and cut open a tea bag and sprinkled the tea leaves all over the floor. She got a hold of a box of tissues while she was in the jonny jump up while I was in the shower and pulled out most of them. She also got the scissors in the basement and cut open a sample of sunscreen and smeared it all over the place. While she was supposed to be napping she took all her clothes off, all the sheets off her bed and pulled all the blankets and lots of clothes out of her dresser. Yesterday she found a container of wipes and pulled most of them out and spread them all over the basement. She got into the older girls desk drawer and took every single paper (we're talking hundreds) out and threw them all over the family room. She regularly will pull entire shelves of books down onto the floor.

In short: Despite living in this house, Lorelei was apparently raised by hyenas and seems to have no inclination to change into a human being.

And just in case you were wondering, most of the time when she's getting into all this trouble, I am NOT sleeping. I'm in some other part of the house doing chores. And she always starts out with me, but she's very quiet and can sneak away and do major damage in a short amount of time. If you don't believe me, offer to babysit sometime.