When Daddy's away. . .

Okay, so last week with Thad being gone the kids got together and decided to make life really interesting for Mommy. Monday we had a dentist appointment for Andi. Her teeth were totally clean and healthy, oh except that while the dentist was cleaning one of her old fillings chipped. Yep, a little piece flew right off. So the options were, patch it, knowing that it would keep breaking and have to be re-patched, or crown it. So the next day we go back and Andi got a "shiny new tooth" as she calls it. I hate that she has a big metal crown, but it's on her very back tooth so you can't see it. But as you can imagine, dealing with the after effects and her mouth being numb for a while was not fun. She's so dramatic!
The next morning I was in the kitchen and the kids were in the living room, when I hear a crack, followed by  Sammy crying. They bashed heads, and Sammy chomped down so hard he chipped the corner off his tooth. Nice. Luckily the dentist said if he could still eat and brush teeth without pain, we wouldn't need to do anything about it. And thankfully it's not bothering him.That night they were chasing each other through the house and Sammy ran into the bathroom, then slipped and hit his head on the tub, so he has a nice purple welt on his eye brow.
Later in the week we were doing some grocery shopping. Andi has gotten into standing/holding on to the side of the basket, which make it really hard to steer, so I am constantly telling her to get off the basket. At the same time I'm usually wrestling Sammy to stay in the dumb seat of the basket. Again, their forces combined, and when I turned to grab something off the shelf they pulled the basket over right on top of Andi, and Sammy flew out. No one was seriously hurt, but you'd think every bone in Andi's body was broken from the screaming that went on. Yes, screaming bloody murder in the middle of Winco.
So now that Thad is home they get to rough house with him and seem content to do that instead of injure themselves. My mom and Stef and I took the kids to see the new Winnie the Pooh movie. It was cute, but thankfully only an hour long. Even for Pooh Bear and a bag of M&M's Sammy will not behave at the movie theaters.
I did get my chair project done. 8 chairs in total. I wanted a pattern on the back, and I have to admit it doesn't really go with decor in the rest of my house, but since they are only brought in when we have a large crowd to feed I think they will work just fine. Here is the before, and for some reason my grass is looking like neon green astro-turf. It doesn't look like that in person, I swear.

The after. 

It looks plain black, but it's actually oil rubbed bronze, so up close you get to see this lovely-ness.

 

I also managed to read a few books in Thad absence, one was a story of Charlotte Bronte's life. And now I feel the need to read her other novels, and well as her sisters.