a hippie with a minivan

of course…

So… as I finished typing that last post and breathed in a a breath of quietness… the phone rang… Colin headed up stairs to go to the bathroom and Khéna was woken by both the phone and his brother…

I made lunch, we ate and the boys headed back downstairs and I sat down to read while Khéna was happily playing in view in the kitchen… he then went out of view… nothing alarming as he plays out of view quite often… but he became quiet… a bit too quiet…

I stood up and walked to the kitchen where I saw him sitting happily in the middle of a puddle… it was a yellowish liquid and it surrounded him completly… pee? I thought…but there was too much to be pee….

then… I saw it… next to him… an almost empty container of vegetable oil … it was full before (1.89L worth)… and now it is not…

*sigh*

A roll of Paper towels later… and I have washed the floor 3 times with dish soap…. now I need to figure out how to salvage the veggie oil soaked Fleece diaper cover…. it is soaking in hot water and dish soap as I type…

quiet…

It is freezing outside today and I am cuddled up on the couch and enjoying the little bit of quiet that I have at the moment.

Simon got out his old Star Wars toys from the shed yesterday and the boys stayed up late last night playing and I finished the skirt that I was making and I am now thinking of my next project. A late night for the boys meant that they also woke up later than usual and the moment that they got up they went downstairs to play only stopping for a few minutes to eat… and they are amazingly playing… not fighting and are having fun together….

Khéna just fell asleep and I layed him down in his new “big boy bed” that Simon also got out of the shed yesterday. He is so proud to have his own bed and earlier this morning I helped him climb up onto it and he spend about 30 min there just sitting up, laying down, playing with a stuffed puppy and looking at a book…

Last night I layed him down in his bed and he slept there for a few hours before waking up and spending the rest of the night cuddled in our bed…

so at the moment, I am drinking tea, incense is burning, the house is quiet with just slight noises of the boys playing together and I just feel really content at the moment…

2 experiments we did yesterday…

The boys and I had fun doing these…

the first is really simple.

Put some milk in a plate, add a few drops of food colouring and then make it move with a q-tip with dishsoap….

the second is a mix of corn starch and water…

It makes a slimy mixture that becomes hard when you put pressure on it but is still liquid… (Non-Newtonian Fluid)

we had done both in the day and then did them again after supper when Simon was home…

lego ships…

One of Xavier’s favourite things to do at the moment is making Lego Space ships… he spends hours on them, making them perfect…

these are two of the latest… though the smaller enemy ship has now transformed considerably since the photo was taken…

good cleaning day…

We tackled the playroom today… and when I say tackled… I really mean it…

We have a lot of toys… too many toys in my opinion..

I have been avoiding that room for longer than I would have wanted because it was so bad…

A while ago I did a purge and we cleaned up the playroom but we didn’t purge enough and slowly (or quickly) the playroom became a mess again… a soon it became an unusable mess… toys all over the floor and we really couldn’t walk in there… Simon would go clean up every week but it was hard because there was just too much stuff… and of course, the messier it became the less the boys wanted to play there.

I almost wish that we would have taken a picture…

Anyway… today we spent about 3 hours in there today. Decluttering toys to put away, throw out or give away… We rearranged furniture and made the space so much more usable and it will be a lot easier to keep clean because there is less toys and more space and it will also be a place to play for Khéna because really he hasn’t been able to play in the playroom often because of the mess…

So… slowly but surely the house is becoming less cluttered… we still have a lot to do but it is really helping us to keep the house clean which means that weekends are becoming more of family time…