Mayhem

Utter chaos reigned in our house last night. I went to visit some friends up in Kazoo and took Annie with me, leaving Clint and Grace to an afternoon by themselves. It never fails - 1 time I take an afternoon off, I come back and the whole evening is shot to hel...ck. CRAZINESS was the name of the game last night.

We came back from retrieving a chair and a quick trip to Meijers about 8:30 last night. Annie has begun screaming (due to teething and being hungry) on the car ride home from Meijers and does not let up until inside with a bottle in her mouth and even then she was at the gasping, sobbing hiccuping stage so she was slurpin' the formula all over the place. We had stopped to get Grace a Happy Meal on the way home because of the late hour and she was in her jammies on the couch eating that, after having 2 very huge meltdowns that were Dora and jammie related - to add to the Annie chaos. She's begging for her drink, Clint hands it to her and tells her to be careful, which of course, she's 2 so - yeah. She spilled Sprite all over - the same time the phone rang. Clint did some yelping and had words for our darling, to which they BOTH responded by wailing. So, I had 2 crying girls in my lap, an angry husband moving the couch to clean up and a dog who responded to the whole situation by laying down completely in the middle of everything.

I got them both settled down, Annie finished her bottle and into jammies, very happy now. Grace finished her happy meal and into her jammies and just when I was pondering how I didn't think I could handle ANY MORE CRYING - Grace runs into her bedroom, completely unaware of the HUGE 80 pound dog in the middle of the floor, trips over him and lands face down onto the laminate. Wailing ensues.

I couldn't help it. I cracked up. It was either that - or CRACK UP. Her feet went so high into the air, I'm laughing about it now as I'm reliving it. She completely flipped.

This the girl, who, on Friday at the sitter's house ran down the hallway tripped over NOTHING but her own feet and slammed into the bathroom doorway. HUGE black and blue and green and yellow goose egg on her forehead.

Grace is no name for her :)