Nappin' and Poopin'

Oh these kids, seriously I am counting the days to preschool -- sometimes I am sad about it but sometimes I feel like calling the school right now to ask if they can start this minute and if they have a boarding school affiliation. With vacation Bible school every evening last week, the kids decided they weren't going to nap, well Addison and Caden decided that. I can count on Ethan to nap mainly because he's still locked in that crib tent and he has no choice and after he plays a while, boredom overtakes him and he's out. When boredom begins to overtake The Girl and her Sidekick, they begin the party or the fight or the coming down the stairs 500 times to tell me this or that or get this or that or see what I am doing. I'll tell you what I am doing, I'm busy trying to keep all these kids in bed without losing the little bit of sanity I have left! I thought with 3 hours of Bible School every night they would be exhausted and they were but did it make them sleep more? No, less, go figure! Back to my old adage: Sleep begets sleep. The more you do it the more you have to do it! Every day The Girl becomes a little more and more like the devil. No kidding after 5 days of Bible School (that's 15 hours of education and listening to religious CD approximately 5 million times) she told me while looking at her Vacation Bible School book during a nap strike "I cannot want to like Jesus" that would be the devil talking! And last night, I believe I did see the devil rear it's ugly head more than a few times -- down right scary!

So no more, I am stubborn and I'm not about to give in -- today is a new day and new rules -- everybody sleeps, do or die! Addison is sleeping on the downstairs couch and I say don't get off this bed (don't call it a bed as I did, "She said this is not a bed, it is a couch!") so I repeat don't get off the couch! At least there's nothing much going on in the party room -- they are both out in 41 minutes -- world record, I believe for the Murray Team. I think the Murray Team broke another record here earlier today when I had 3 people poop in less than 15 minutes of each other. At least Caden made it to the potty, Ethan on the other hand decided he would remove his pull-up then tell me he pooped after a little couch jumping (which is not allowed). Thank God, we have a wipe-off couch now -- don't worry I sanitized, if you visit, you can still sit safely. Reesey decided she needed to join in and it was everywhere, I went through 2 diapers and half a box of wipes just to change her and then she somehow removed the new diaper while I was trying to fix the malfunction of the diaper genie thing where it somehow spit poop out and I finished the other half of that box of wipes to clean that up. I have washed my hands a million times today already. So everything is a little quieter at the moment, now that 3 out of 4 kids are sleeping and 3 out of 4 kids have pooped.


See that's how the 4th kid looks right now, doesn't she look tired? Actually look closely, see the red eyes, there's still a little bit of devil in there.