Silly Kids + Milestones

We've a few funny moments at our house lately. I've been trying to limit the boys screen/iPad time this summer and have forced them to play. (I know, I am such a mean mom). They get pretty creative when everything gets turned off (and my house gets trashed, but I guess that's the price I have to pay for creativity). This day I can't remember what the boys were trying to do, but this is how I found them in their bedroom. Drew has the pillow head, and Christopher has pajama head and pillow feet. Crazy kids!!

My parents moved into their home at the beginning of June (not sure I blogged about it). After running their remodel for 2 months it's finally over!! (Well almost over.) We were at their place the other day and Clarissa really wanted to get in the pool (even though she had already swam earlier that day and I had already bathed her). Have I mentioned she's persistent (aka SPOILED), and tends to get what she wants? Well we turned our backs to her for a second and this is what happened. She got in the pool fully dressed (since we weren't going to undress her). This little girl has such an attitude. Cory and I are in BIG trouble.

This week Cory replaced the batteries in Drew's remote control car. I was in the kitchen when I heard Cory calling me over for some "girl" help. Clarissa put the car up to her hair and it got all tangled. I couldn't stop laughing, so she started to laugh too. Then when I asked her what should we do and Drew responded with "let's cut it", the laughs turned into cry. Cory got it on video, it was pretty hilarious. First time we get hair tangled. Pretty sure it won't be the last.

I have taken Clarissa with me to get a pedicure before, but she has never gotten her toes painted professionally. She is terrified of letting strangers touch her. Last week when I went to get my toes done I just assumed that would be the case again, but this time she actually wanted to get it painted. I was in heaven. I finally got a little girl to do girly things with me. Not sure who was happier, me or Bel. The first thing she did when Cory got home from work was show him her toes and say "pink!"

Christopher lost his first tooth yesterday and got $1 from the tooth fairy this morning. He's so excited about it. We took him to Target today so he could spend his money.

Lastly, we went to Sedona for the 4th of July. The plan was to spend the weekend. The weather was great, but we had a HORRIBLE night (I think that's an understatement). Clarissa and Christopher woke up at 4:00 and wouldn't go back to sleep (she was actually being silly the whole time - which isn't very funny at 4:00 am). Then Cory finally took over at 5:40 when Christopher and I collapsed and he managed to get the talking parrot back down. Christopher peed the bed at 7:00am so I had to get up again to clean and find him a new place to sleep. By the time we all woke up we were in a terrible mood with no cousins or friends to entertain the kids. We swam ih the morning and left soon after lunch. This was our shortest trip ever. It felt great to be home again and the kids slept in until 9:00 today.