Order In Chaos

Today is…Thursday, Nov 4 2010

We prayed.

We looked at our Gospel Picture:

And talked about how after the anti-nephi-lehis had learned about Jesus Christ, they felt bad for what they had done and wanted to bury their weapons. This may be a good point of reference for trying to explain to Giant why I don’t like play-fighting in the house.

Life is sacred, and even playing at killing feels wrong to me.

Yes, boys are boys.

But I don’t want my boys to think that killing is funny.

Then we looked at our Message:

And the boys had Independent Play for a bit.

Then mommy decided to make muffins, and the boys decided they needed to help:

Indeed, they brought the whole crew with them:

Half-way through, Galoot decided he had had enough:

So we took a time out from baking:

…while mommy rocked a baby to sleep:

Then back to business:

Some yummy peanut butter and jam muffins:

“Yummy dam [jam], mom.” (Ettin approved).

After lunch and the little ones were napping, it was time for more Independent Play.

And today, I think we got somewhere:

Playing pretend with his toys away from mommy:

Setting up one of Mommy and Daddy’s games:

(granted, right next to the couch I was sitting on)

And unscrewing the broken hinges of our baby gate:

Doesn’t he look like such a little man there?

How is he only just four? A

nd how did he get to be so big, so fast?!