Routine? Yeah right!

Scott's presence this month is scattered at best. When he is home, he is a HUGE help from distracting the kids while I'm cooking dinner to helping bathe since I can't easily bend over at this point. This makes chasing two wet kiddos around the bath tub a little challenging. When he is not here the show must go on. We have a fairly typical evening routine. I start cooking around 5 pm. We sit and eat around 6-6:30pm and immediately retreat to bath. By 7-7:30, we have squeaky clean girls, and so on. Tonight we got took a meal to a sweet friend of ours who just had a baby. Mary Ella was this precious new baby girl and the look on her face was priceless. She truly "gets it" this time around and is SOOOO excited to be accepting a new little sister into our home. She did remind me she will be the babysitter and I will wash the dishes...again.

Anyways, we got home, ate dinner a little late...no big deal. We retreated to the bath tub where Addy proceeded to "Christen" the bath water...no, I'm not talking about liquid waste. Thank goodness it was the end of the bath, so I jerked both girls out of the water, got them dressed for bed. I went back into the bathroom to do the "pre-clean," came out and my little climber, Addy, had gotten on top of the dining room table and dumped my bottle of water out (I'm still not sure why I didn't take that off the table with the rest of the dishes, but anyways...). I immediately cleaned that up so the table would get water marks and I hear Mary Ella yelling from her room. I quickly waddle to see what is wrong and Addy is doing her third favorite thing (1. getting the phone 2. Climbing onto anything), emptying out Mary Ella's dresser drawer. Whew! I get those clothes folded and back in the drawer. I closed to the door to Mary Ella's room so Addy would stay confined while I got that taken care of. All of those little "fires" occurred within about 5-10 minutes. It is amazing how fast these little people can move from one thing to another! After I sat down, I couldn't help but chuckle to myself. Is anything really ever routine?