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…