Here are Liza’s two girls modeling the shirts Chrissie made:

Aren’t they adorable?

Many, many thanks to Liza for helping us on Monday.

I was down and out on Monday with what was affecting the Kulia and Chrissie had her hands full with a sick Daddy and 2 sick kids. But Liza stepped in and brought Kulia some medicine which is making a world of difference.

Liza – you’ve saved our bacon so many times we owe you a whole pig! Too bad you’re jewish 😉

Ho Ho Ho…

Well, Chrissie’s caught something – we’re not sure where it’s from but she’ll be down for several days. I’can’t figure out how you can catch a cold at the beginning of summer? Only in the Northwest I suppose.

Chrissie was feeling something coming but decided to take the kids to the zoo anyway – once you let Leina know you’re planning a zoo-trip she goes bananas (hee hee). What I don’t understand is how she went through all our straw-cups. These are those nice plastic cups that seal well and have a straw. The kids love’em ’cause it’s quick access to the milk. The Dad loves’em ’cause there’s a gazillion of them in the cupboard so I can always get one when I need one. But not tonight. I went to the cupboard and it was bare. I couldn’t believe it. How am I supposed to serve dinner without anything to drink? And where did all those cups go?

So later tonight I started hunting around for them and it became a game of where isn’t a straw-cup. Here’s the breakdown:

2 in the backpack (from the zoo)
1 on the couch (not fun to sit on)
1 under the couch
1 behind the couch…
1 under a book (Kulia’s – she loves those books!)
1 in Kulia’s crib
1 in Leina’s crib
1 in our bed! (does Mom use the straw cups?)
1 in the bathroom (when you’re doin’ #1 sometimes you gotta refil)
1 in the dog bowl (even Artie gets tired of his water dish somtimes)
1 in the Candyland game
1 in the musical car
1 in the toy bin
1 by the computer
1 by the train set
1 by the legos

And the list goes on and on… I must have washed 2 dozen cups tonight. You’d think we don’t clean up after these kids but I had all but a few of these cups accounted for on Saturday. 48 hours that’s all it takes with these kids.

If you don’t hear from me in a while you’ll know it’s ’cause I’m still hunting for the straw cups…

Some have suggested that Kulia is NOT the world’s biggest 1 year old rascal.

Well here’s the video to prove it:

Well Papa and Tutu have only been gone 36 hours and they’re already sorely missed. Kulia keeps looking around for her “distraction action” from Papa and Leina keeps going, “who will play with me?” And I keep going, “who will do the dishes!”

Luckily though, I checked Tutu’s suitcase just before she left and look what I found her trying to sneak back to LA:

Better luck next time Tutu!