Shenanigans

With a rare full day at home for the two youngest, this meant opportunities were plentiful for stirring in mischief…

At one point early in the morning, I discovered both Yali’s and Patience’s toothbrushes suctioned to opposites sides of the toilet seat, toilet lid smashed down on top of them.

During breakfast, Yali tried cramming Trader Joe’s “Puffins” cereal pieces into his sister’s ears. She did not seem to mind.

Later in the morning, when I walked upstairs from transferring a load of laundry to the dryer, I found Patience carefully holding a string cheese in both hands, while Yali prepared to adorn it with a bottle of BBQ sauce. Mustard and Louisiana hot sauce waited on the counter, apparently for rounds two and three.

Shortly later, Yali held up his finger to show me…

“Mom. A rhino bit me yesterday.”

Puck chuckled. “Was that rhino Patience?”

Before lunch, I caught both of them slathering their hands and arms in cocoa butter lotion, also plastered into Rose’s lengthening black hair. I was just glad it wasn’t mayonnaise.