Hurricane Lucy

I meant to do this post last week but one of the girls ran off with my camera cord and I just found it yesterday. I cleaned my house last week on Monday and it was SPOTLESS, well almost. I've learned to accept the fact that my house is never perfectly clean because I have kids. If I'm busy cleaning then they are busy playing or destroying. The day after I cleaned my house this is what happens. Actually, this is what can happen in twenty short minutes while I'm on the computer or switching the laundry:

This picture doesn't capture the full disaster. Notice the drawers that hold the toys are not even in their plastic frame. Also in the back it's hard to see half the book shelf spread out on the floor. Esther is pretty good at making messes but Lucy takes the cake. She is comparable to a hurricane or a tornado. Her goal in life is to empty out drawers, cupboards, shelfs, and anything else that contains any type of object. Most our cupboards are baby proofed but now she can reach the drawers I thought she wouldn't be able to reach until I could train her. One week my drawers were organized, now they each look like a random junk drawer. She's pretty amazing.

While Esther is a lot more tidy then Lucy, she has her tendencies. Esther is my chair mover. She's discovered a whole new world by moving chairs--she can cook with mommy, reach any food in the pantry or fridge, crawl over the gate to the stairs, and answer the phone. Last week she also decided it would be fun to move ALL the chairs. They became some part of her creative world and she told me she moved them so Lucy could also climb on them and they could sing songs. I think it's cute she has found this new independence through chairs but we need to work on the "putting the chair back" part.

Despite the large amount of cleaning and reorganizing I do I still have the best job in the world.