House Work, Yard Work, and Alka Seltzer

This morning I stood at the dining room table folding laundry while the baby sat banging and strumming on a guitar a few feet away. The dog brushed passed my legs, then a cat and then the hamster came rolling along under the table. I had to laugh a little at this scene complete with its roaming hamster and guitar playing baby.

It's been awhile since I've written anything. I've been busy and life has been just normal lately. Fun, full and busy but nothing incredibly interesting or noteworthy has occurred. I've been reorganizing the kitchen and the office/ craft/ older kid's stuff to do room so the house has been in utter chaos. The kids, with practically no assistance moved the pool and got it up and running for the season. And we've been doing yard work before it gets too hot to want to do outside work anymore.

While I was cleaning out the kitchen cupboards I came across some Alka Seltzer  tablets that had expired so the kids spent a few hours playing and experimenting with them. 

Aravis filled this bottle with oil, water, food coloring, and a few colorful beads. Then added an alka seltzer and made a lava lamp.

Dominick made a cool video game on the computer that was almost too hard for him to play. Tanner filmed a movie with her brother, sister and some neighborhood friends. After 4 mice, and 4 mice funerals, Aravis decided to see if hamsters live longer. The hamster almost immediately escaped from it's cage and spent a day cuddled up under a doll bed. Luckily it was retrieved by my husband since I had visions of a hamster being chased by 2 cats a dog and 3 kids and meeting a very traumatic end for all involved. Tanner finished her bunny cage, which she built unassisted and with no instructions, and bought a bunny. The baby started cruising. And I finally switched to cloth diapers, after toying with the idea for 4 babies now. I wish I had known sooner how easy they were.

So now, the house is a little better organized, a little cleaner, the yard is a little neater, the pool is in a better location, the baby is a little bit bigger, her butt's a little greener, and the kids are a little wiser.