Gettin' REAL On A Saturday Night :)

Well, this post was inspired by eating lunch out with my dear friend Gwen the other day!! You see...we took 5 of our smallest children out to lunch the other day (yes, we must like torture :) and during lunch Gwen got to witness LL hitting her food off the table (for no real good reason) and giving me the "how dare you make me sit here in this highchair" look and smack the table!! :) Well, Gwen said, "Wow, if the blog world could just see this from LL!" It made me think.....Hmmmmm...I try to be REAL..but maybe I've NOT BEEN REAL enough lately....I mean..I've posted pics of our dirty kitchen in the past....pics of my out of control laundry....but maybe I haven't posted enough pics of LL "acting like a normal toddler"......So......here goes: Yes, I think my sweet LL hung the moon!! It is true...I like to post her cuteness, her sweetness, her unbelievable charm she has with all of us....BUT, yes, folks...she also is NORMAL....she likes to throw fits....Above, you have her doing one of her favorite tricks which is to open the dishwasher by herself....Well, there are sharp knives in the dishwasher..and for some reason it WON'T lock...so our LL is a smart little cookie and it didn't take long for her to figure out HOW to push the button and get it open by herself......So......I have to close it and hold it shut:

This makes my sweet princess MAD!!!!!

So, MAD that she likes to throw herself on the floor and scream.............

Then she does the "bury my head trick" and surely someone will think i'm so cute that they'll let me go back to playing with sharp knives.........

Then when that doesn't work, we get the "roll over" and "kick our legs" game......

Well, this lasts about a minute when she gets easily distracted by a measuring cup she finds on the floor.....AND......

WHAM....she's over it!!!! :) That's my LL!!! My feisty little, incredibly dramatic Ethiopian Princess that we think HUNG THE MOON!!! :)

***And, yes, I still have my dining room FULL of clean laundry that the kids jump in because they think it is a fun game always going on in the dining room....

***My kitchen is always still a disaster filled with dirty dishes and dirty sippy cups....Oh...and that reminds me...My hubby just went to the cabinet to pull out a "clean" sippy cup to fix someone a cup of milk...He opens the "suppose to be" clean cup from the cabinet....it is is filled with curdled milk!!! Hmmmmm..wonder how long that had been in there!! :)

***So, yes, we're NORMAL...we have good days, bad days (like a friend this week called me to ask me if I'd pick her kid up from choir for her and bring her home so she wouldn't have to get out....well.....lets see...I FORGET!!! Yes, at the last minute we decided NOT to go to choir and I NEVER remembered telling the friend I'd bring her child home!! Yes, loser friend here too sometimes :)

***AND, one more to share with you....My 2 yr. old George LOVES the race car grocery carts that the kids can ride in at the local grocery!! LL likes to ride facing me at the top of the cart....NO PROBLEM until LL decides she wants to ride in the RACE CAR WITH GEORGE!!! It does have two seat belts and two steering wheels!! George does not like this idea!!! Well, he just loses it!! He is screaming through the store, "This is MY RACE CAR....GET THE BABY OUT!!! " He truly never stops...I am stared at through the entire store!!! One kind lady walks up and says, "Mam you seem to have your hands full!" I say, "No MAM, this is my day off....my other three are in school today!" :) She didn't quite know what to say!! :)

*** So......yes, we're a NORMAL family if you were wondering!!! And, I hope to always reflect that from time to time!!! :) Happy Saturday to you all, kj