April 27, 2007 - Friday
Making a cake... Current mood: amusedCategory: Life
Well, today I was babysitting for my friend Andie because her regular babysitter is out with a family emergency. A fun-filled day with four kids.....Emily, 4, Abby, 2 1/2, Lauren, 2, and Ethan, 6 months. The girls were getting along really well and playing and watching TV. I came to the computer to check my email, Emily, the oldest, comes in and tells me that Abby is putting the dog's food in their water bowl. I yell for her to stop. This is a normal occurence in my house, and I have yet to convince her that the dogs don't like their food mixed with their water.
A couple of minutes later I remember that Abby was playing in the water/dog food bowl so I go to make sure she didn't make too big of a mess. Well, I round the corner of our counter and see to my amazement, flour everywhere, probably half of the bag. It was all over the floor, in the dog's new mixture of food, all over Abby and Lauren (who are 2 1/2 and 2). My first reaction was to be angry, but they were having such a good time and they looked so funny that I couldn't help but laugh. I yelled for Matthew to come look and to bring the camera, and in the mean time, the four year old, Emily, is trying desperately to convince me that she had NOTHING to do with this horrible mess. I, of course, believe her, because I can't think of any four year old who could accomplish a feat such as this without getting one speck of flour on herself.
Matthew brings the camera, laughs, and heads back to bed. (He's working nights and had just headed for bed when all of this happened.)
This is what I saw when I first walked into my kitchen.
These two are of Lauren covered in flour...
And here is Abby having a fit because I won't let her play in it any more....
So, I immediately stripped them down and put them in the bathtub! After that, I put up the baby gate and went to work cleaning their mess.....
The three amigas!
I called Andie, laughing hysterically to tell her about their experiment which she also found amusing. When she came to pick up her girls she asked Abby what they did with the doggies' food and she told her that they were "just making a cake". Sounds like fun to me! What would I do without kids to entertain me?
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