whoever said

girls are easier...

yesterday while attempting to fold the laundry (apparently nothing good comes from me folding laundry) mad slipped into the house after playing in the sandbox, grabbed the baby powder and proceeded to clean her hands and feet with it. soon a sweet smell wafted into the living room, so i decided to investigate. a cloud of baby powder greeted me as i walked into the kitchen. the good news... mad had removed all the sand from her body. the bad news... there is a layer of pixie dust throughout the lower level of the house.

tip - baby powder used in moderation easily removes wet sticky sand of little fingers and toes.

while cleaning up the powder piles, i realized that em spilled nail polish on the kitchen table and on the chairs. so i used nail polish remover and succeeded in remover and nail polish and some stain. so i put on some old english to darken up the stainless spot. through this i discovered that the nail polish remover also removes primer. we have a few drops on the floor from past painting projects.

did i mention, mad clocked me with the hard plastic swing on my nose this week. thankfully, the bruise never turned green. there's still a bump where there never was one before.

today while working on the yard the girls were digging up grubs. of course they know grubs are bad so they fed them to the arachnids that they are apparently keeping as pets.

mad and em had a grand time covering themselves in mud and jumping into their pool this week.

on the sweeter side...

mad asked me the other night for my Bible so that she could read it. so i handed her mine.
"no, not that one."
"which one are you talking about."
"the one with aslan."
"aahhh."
we have a fairy tale book with a large lion with a crown on it's head.
aslan's Bible.

btw, lauren em and mad want to have a discussion with bear about wanting to go to bed. they think she's crazy.

well there's more, but that's all for tonight