The "Joys" of parenting

Its been quite the week in our little household and expensive I might add.First of all "pumpkin" decided it would be entertaining to find out how far the arms on mommy's glasses would go before they broke.She found out...

Unfortunately the frames I had purchased were discontinued so I couldn't just replace the frames so I had to replace everything.I can't even claim them this time with Blue Cross because these ones are only a year and a half old and I can only make a claim every two years.(She could have waited another 6 months).

I think I am going to have to send both girls to hair dressing school since they enjoy doing it so often.At least that way when they decide to give each other hair cuts it might look half descent.Pumpkin cut her hair twice that I know of,possibly a third time but I'm not really sure whether it was her or big sister.It looked so bad we just shaved it all off.One day she might have some hair that is longer than 1/2 inch.Then Monkey got a hold of the scissors (how? I don't know) and went on a cutting rampage.At first I thought they were just having some nice sister time.The girls were in their room laughing and jumping on the bed (not out of the ordinary).What alerted me to the fact that they may be doing something that they shouldn't be was the sound of beads pouring all over the floor.The discovery?Where do I begin?

The first thing I noticed was a big pile of hair on the floor."Monkey" had cut her hair into a charming "mullet" style reminiscent of the 1980's.Well hey,leg warmers and stirrup pants are back in fashion, why not this charming hair do? Blood pressure rapidly rising.Next I discovered what it was that caused me to go in the room in the first place. "Monkey" decided to find out what was inside a "beanie baby" yep...lots and lots of tiny little plastic pellets,which I STILL keep finding everywhere.Blood pressure still climbing.By the end o this whole incident she had cut her hair,a beanie baby,Pumpkin's blanket,her blanket,her stuffed lion's mane and her sister's pajamas.Blood vessels ready to EXPLODE!

All this was on the heals of last Saturday's little incident of getting acrylic paint all over my living room furniture.Which did not come out(DH was babysitting while I was out and didn't discover it until an hour later)!

It is simply amazing that more kids don't end up in the orphanage LOL!