I had the privilege of spending extra alone time with Katie this past weekend.  She was a flower girl in a wedding and so I spent quite a few hours painting her nails, getting her dressed up and taking her to the rehearsal, wedding and reception.  Katie is not a very prissy little girl.  She enjoys digging in the mud, climbing trees and playing chase with the best of them.  But, she IS a girl. 

In contrast, the boys are BOYS. 

Here are a few examples of this over just the past couple of days;

• Parker shoved a popcorn kernel up his nose. Leading me to have the “we don’t stuff things up our nose” talk with him. (Thankfully since he was sick and blowing his nose the last 5 weeks, he was able to blow hard and get it out.)
• Jonah climbed on top of the dining room table, tried to swallow a rubber bouncy ball, pooped in the bathtub, threw his food off his highchair tray, hit all his siblings with something hard. On the head.
• Foster hid and scared Grammy and caused her to jerk and hurt her shoulder (which is still sore from getting hit by a car).  He also flew his remote control helicopter into my head.
• Theodore tried to play sword fight in the living room knocking over a lamp and almost knocking over the Christmas tree. He peed ALL over my toilet because he waited too long to get to the bathroom.  He also argued with me that he should be able to use chocolate milk as the milk in his cereal this morning.