Funniest thing

This was the highlight of my day yesterday. Glad I had a highlight after the children broke into the storeroom and filled up a bunch of pillowcases with provisions for running away (things like our 100 hour candles and containers of salt). I had to go through and clean and reorganize the whole storeroom. It needed to be done, but I was putting it off until Timothy did it. He's good at stuff like that, whereas, I am not. And I hate it. Plus, the kids earned another day of no privileges due to their little stunt. Tell me how much fun it is to be a mother when you are trying to keep your children from doing anything. I hate my life.

But, one funny thing did happen.

I was changing Eli's diaper on the change table, so he was laying down, looking at the ceiling, when Cowen ran in and yelled, "Eli, shoot me!" So Eli, without even turning his head, lifted his arm, pointed his fingers at Cowen, pulled back his thumb (genetic boy thing???) and made a bang sort of sound. Then he put his arm back down in a totally blase way.

Cowen threw himself on the floor and played out an excruciating death scene, then, after he was thoroughly dead, Cowen leaped back up, yelled, "Thanks, Eli!" and ran back out of the room.

So random. So . . . boyish. And did I want to know that my 20 month old knows how to shoot people already?? Regardless of the violence involved, I laughed. For a long time.