Toilet Paper and Telescopes

It's our first day of summer vacation!! I woke up to happy kids watching cartoons and enjoying their self poured cups of apple juice. I needed to change baby girls diaper and I already had her in the changing table but I didn't replace my toilet paper roll. I don't use baby wipes, instead it's a squeeze bottle rinse (read more here) on a few squares of Toilet Paper.

So I asked my older son to fetch me a roll. "Mom when your done, make sure you save me the roll so I can make a telescope." Flashback to two days ago, I was packing a huge mirror gift for my cousins 40th birthday party and used up the remaining roll of wrapping paper. And I didn't toss the inner cardboard roll. I put that in the kitchen near our craft station - knowing we'd need it sooner or later. Little did I know how soon.

I told him where he can find the ideal size telescope roll, and he and his brother felt inspired to create.


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I love when these boys make something from their imagination. This telescope will be around for a few days. They usually make a craft, play with it that day, use it the next day, maybe end up outside playing with it, and after 1-2 weeks it'll be found, completely used up :-) To Mom's complete satisfaction too.


"The Days are long, the Years are Short"

[Not] Using the Bathroom

I need to use the potty, so the boys are given specific tasks to clean the toy room (younger son put the cars away, older son clean up the animals). Baby girls reviewing a book on the kitchen floor, it's seemingly a good moment to go. . . Ha!

The doors a jar, in the time it actually took me to use the bathroom Baby Girl started to empty her diaper bag and toddles over to me bringing one at a time: (push door all.the.way.open) my"eh-eh" as she hands me my lip balm, I take it and say thank you. She's thrilled and toddles off. {Older Son visits in the doorway to tell on Younger Son, I call Younger One over to tell him his job, again}. Meanwhile baby girl walks in front of him and brings my Tylenol bottle, again thrilled, leaves and returns with my wallet, always good
during pee time. {Younger Son comes in because Older One hit him on the KNEE, call Older One over for Best Behavior reminder}. Baby Girl pushes her way in and brings my keys, and makes two more trips brining HER wipes (actually useful), and my lipstick - opened with her finger covered in Mauve.

Finally I can wipe. And take pictures :-) The picture with her newly lipsticked finger just doesn't due the color justice.

Happy parenting!