Aim for Manners, a million light years away!

I am fixing Baby Girl's food. I hear giggles and laughter at the table. I turn. The boys are eating mac and cheese and staring at each other. I return to the task at hand. I hear impish laughter. I glance at the boys. They are starting to sip their Capri Sun drinks. Continue with preparing Baby Girl's plate. Now there is howling laughter escalating and gurggling sounds that concern me. I turn. Caleb has mac and cheese almost squarely in the middle of his forehead. And on his ear. Ty has it all over the placemat. (at least I had a placemat!) And on his head. Right on the very top! Who knew that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese could fit so nicely into the tiny straws of Capri Sun drinks as to become the ammunition for pea-shooters, spit-guns, or whatever they may be called these days! Wow! Maybe I should report this to the companies. Maybe we could make a commercial!

Baby Girl is cutting a one-year molar. Those are difficult to break through, apparently. At least she is sleeping a lot. Oh yes, she also was a target of the mac & cheese war, and quite frankly, seemed to rather enjoy it! It won't be long until she will be a willing participant and possible instigator. It's funny how when I was MOM that would have been a terrible disaster. As GRANDMA, it is just the creative investigations of grandchildren, resulting in the loss of their "Manners" stickers on the sticker chart, and a lesson in cleaning up your mess. And a lesson for Grandma related to not serving Capri Sun drinks with mushy food or unsupervised! I am getting quite a refresher course on children!

Had a friend from an area about 90 minutes from here visit today. She was going to bring her 3 yr. old grandson, but that didn't work out, so we just enjoyed the day doing "normal" things. We visited MacDonalds for ice cream. Not so much because the boys "deserved" a treat, but because it was very windy today and they could not play outside. Ty's CF cannot be exposed to wind and dust, etc. And GRANDMA deserved the treat of visiting for awhile with her friend. SHE needed the boys to get some energy out on the indoor playground. Ty actually read two books to this friend. And we played Alphabet Bingo and Letters Go Fish! Grandma didn't win either game!