I am so far behind with posting pictures and stories, unfortunately this was not my week to try and catch up. The boys and I have been fighting colds or some mild form of the plague all week. Nothing requiring medical intervention, just enough germs to make us all miserable and cranky (especially Luke, who has four teeth that are giving him grief too). I’ve also misplaced my camera and while I have tons of other pictures I could be sharing, I really want the ones that are currently hiding on my memory card.

And then there has been just the general naughtiness of the two little boys that live here. To say that they have been a handful lately would be putting it very lightly. Luke is just made of mayhem and Adam isn’t far behind him. Adam, who told me he really wants to learn to count to 100 (he can get to 49 on his own) and correctly used the word “periscope” in a sentence yesterday, was responsible for this bit of graffiti. He told me that he was just trying to decorate the wall to make it pretty for me.

His punishment was that I took all of his crayons away from him. Shortly after that he refused to pick up some of our other school supplies and so an added punishment was that we didn’t do school today. I wasn’t sure about that as a form of punishment, but it really, really bothered him. I just hope he doesn’t start coloring on the walls to get out of going to class when he’s a seventh grader.