Little Things

Oct. 6

I just love (almost) all of those little unexpected things that you find, in the oddest places, that remind you there are children in the house.  Here are a few I've seen recently.

If you look closely, you can see the edge of a

cell phone sticking out of the basket in back too.

Needless to say, this isn't where the crayons

belong, or the cell phone for that matter.

This is probably my favorite.  I get tickled

every time I see those twisty straws sticking

out of my utensil bucket.  I guess it doesn't

take much to amuse me.

A very recent favorite.  A couple of days ago

Beenie heard me say that I needed to remember

to get tissue for the living room.  Can

you guess what this is?

Yep, a roll of toilet paper.  I applaud her

ingenuity.  In fact, I haven't changed it yet

even though I have a box of tissue for it.

Of course, this isn't a little reminder,

it's the whole kid, but I really liked

this picture Ri got of T.Lynn helping

her put supper in the crock pot

yesterday.

And here's another I liked of Bree and T.

Bree was a little fed up with the rather

unenthusiastic way T. was wiping the table

and decided to take over for her.  Kids being

what they are, table wiping became instantly

more interesting, and T. tried to get the dishrag

back.  This was Bree's solution for trying to get

the table wiped and controlling the little one who

was trying to swipe the rag at the same time.

Of course, I don't really need all the little reminders.  You know, since I have them all in here making an incredible amount of noise each day, but I still enjoy all the little things too.

And yes, I know I won't always have them here.  That's why I'm so glad Ri likes taking pictures.  I'm sure one day, one of my grandchildren will be looking in a photo album and think I'm totally crazy for having a picture of twisty straws in there.  I'll just have to smile and tell him/her that they will understand one day.

Becky