A few minutes in Ella's morning

[lalicopa]

I can no longer keep anything clean or neat. At. All.

Ella has suddenly become mobile. She was scootching, but within the last week she has started pulling herself up and crawling up and down the stairs in the den. (Post about that following this one)

I had to capture the chaos this morning. I took these pictures over the course of 5 minutes. FIVE.



First Lily decided to make an "ammamal train" and demanded that I make it move. After explaining to her in detail why I couldn't make it move, she left it there and went to the other room.


Ella scootched over to the cabinet in the dining room and promptly emptied it.


I actually cleaned the entire couch last night. Kibbles, in her older age, has a habit of licking her front paws ALL DAY LONG. She leaves little dog spit stains on the couch and it makes me crazy. I put out this towel for her to lie on so if she did her licking thing it wouldn't get on the couch. Of course she sat just off of it.


"Hmm...what can I get into here?"



"Screw that, what's happening in the kitchen?"


"Dishwasher!"


"I'm goin' in for a closer look."


This is the look that kills me. She already knows she's bad AND funny and totally works it.


Out of the dishwasher and angry that her glasses aren't on



"Ah, that's better."

FIVE minutes.

Since she's been up from her nap this afternoon she has wrecked the den and screamed at Lily, then stood by the ottoman and swept everything off of it onto the floor. Now she's got her detangler spray in her hand and she's holding it like a bottle of beer and biting the nozzle.

I'm SO doomed.

Comments

[mollyf.livejournal.com]

She's such a cutie! Sounds like she's a Destructive Force to rival MM.

[lalicopa.livejournal.com]

Yeah...and I thought third kids were supposed to be the easy ones! Feh.

[schmoomom.livejournal.com]

See, I was thinking that I should come down to you this summer, but if I do that, Ella and Eoin together would ruin all of New York.

[kerinda.livejournal.com]

She and Ben would SO be partners in crime.

Ben had that look at that age too. "I'm solemnly swear that I am up to no good, and you can't help smiling at me because I'm cute."

Ugh. Yeppers, you are doomed. But you'll love ever moment of your destruction. ;D

[jenrose]

Imagine, if you will, that Shiny has been in that exact stage for going on two years now, with varying degrees of competence.

The kid-in-the-dishwasher thing is SOOOOOO familiar.